By Elliott Brack | The business community of Peachtree Corners is growing, as are many Gwinnett cities. A report from Peachtree Corners the other day listed 33 new businesses in the city in June. But on close inspection, 14 of these new firms had applied and were granted a license as a used car dealer.
By Elliott Brack | One of the first elected Gwinnett officials to anticipate how the county would grow and who helped pave the way for it, died on June 30. He is Ray Gunnin, who was 92 when he passed away at the home of his daughter in Colorado. Gunnin was elected in 1968 to represent County Commission District 2 (the Norcross and Lilburn areas, which now includes Peachtree Corners). In those days, the population of Gwinnett was 65,362 residents.
By Elliott Brack | While it appears that Gwinnett County could see many of its local offices land in the Democratic column come November, that’s most likely not true of the majority of the counties in Georgia. While the larger cities of the state may report in the Democratic column, much of the state, including the Legislature, will no doubt remain in control of the Republican Party.
Click here to read our latest issue.Inside this edition:
TODAY’S FOCUS: From U.S. Grant, to the Dixie Chicks, the World Has Gone Crazy
EEB PERSPECTIVE: A Perfect Storm from COVID-19 Resulted in a Changed Primary Election
ANOTHER VIEW: Reflections about Memorial Day and the George Floyd Incident
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
FEEDBACK: While Reading Ashley Herndon, the Tears Started To Flow
UPCOMING: Gwinnett CARES Act Program Has $20 Million Available
NOTABLE: Arts Organizations in County Get $51,000 from Explore Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED: Book on CD Review: Six Months That Changed the World by Professor Margaret MacMillan
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Drip Irrigation Technique Emits Precise Steady Drip for Crops
MYSTERY PHOTO: For the Fourth of July, Here’s What May Be a Cream Puff Mystery
CALENDAR: Two Farmers Markets in Gwinnett To Be Open This Weekend
By Elliott Brack | It was a perfect storm that changed a primary election. If our world had not been in the COVID-19 pandemic, the outcome of the Georgia Primary could have been different.
Here’s why. Never before have so many Georgians voted by absentee ballot Statewide, there were 1,149,469 absentee ballots cast, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. (Poll officials were overwhelmed with counting this many absentee ballots.) Back in 2016, as a comparison, only 36,986 absentee ballots were cast in the primary.
By Elliott Brack | The return of an old friend: Last year, this daylily output was a feature photo in this publication, and now the plant has blossomed for another year. It’s located just outside our kitchen window. Its compatriots, the orange type, develop earlier each year, and we await the red daylily’s bloom with anticipation. We found this about old friends: “Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.”
By Elliott Brack | Monuments, historical plaques and statues have been set up “in the heat of the moment” throughout the United States to honor individuals by people intent on recognizing the activities of what was seen as worthy individuals. But not all such recognitions are always deemed worthy several generations after the monument’s erection, when a more historical and more enlightened evaluation may be made of that honoree’s accomplishments.
By Elliott Brack | Watch out, Gwinnett. You don’t need to delay mass transit. While so far Gwinnett County has dilly-dallied on mass transportation, the rest of the world’s large cities are embracing mass transit. However, now there appears to be a more hopeful attempt for Gwinnett to address mass transit, perhaps in the General Election in November.
By Elliott Brack | Every now and then, a story comes by that just gladdens your heart. On Wednesday we heard of a gathering set for Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Thrasher Park in Norcross. It’s called the “Togetherness Project,” and has been organized by members of the 2011 Class of Norcross High School. It will be a catered cookout, free to all. All families in Norcross are invited.
“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.”
— Editor-in-chief of the Washington Monthly Charles Peters (1926-2023).
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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