Elliott Brack’s Perspective
BRACK: Major Georgia railroad history penned by Loganville’s Hanson
By Elliott Brack | In the mail recently I got a new book by a local author. The author is Robert (Bob) Hanson of Loganville. His new book is a handsome 8.5×11 inches, 156 page “The Railroads of Georgia, 1833-2000.” It’s from Garbely Publishing of Branchville, New Jersey. You can order it from the publisher at $40.
BRACK: Some thinkers are getting concerned about a right to privacy
By Elliott Brack | Times were far different in the age of the Founding Fathers. They thought long and hard, and recognized that mankind wanted certain guarantees from government. What they came up with was to recognize “certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
BRACK: Time to eat crow, apologize for error on Loganville election
By Elliott Brack | Every so often in the news business, you find it’s time to eat crow. Today is such a day for me.
Last Friday we fouled on reporting the results of the Loganville election. Going to the Internet, we posted the results of the 2017 election, thinking we had the 2019 election. We simply did not read the small print correctly, and gave the wrong information.
BRACK: Twitter shows the way, while Facebook offers no solutions
By Elliott Brack | Hurrah for Twitter! This high-tech company seems to have its head screwed on right for a change, as it announced a coming ban on all political advertisements on its site. It is doing this while still allowing political comment from its subscribers to continue, as long as it is not paid content.
BRACK: New county focus will be Revel project at Infinite Energy Center
By Elliott Brack Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum NOV. 1, 2019 | Up until 1984, Gwinnett County had no retail shopping focus. With its 15 towns then (16 now, as Peachtree Corners became its own city in 2012), no one city stood out as a mecca for retail and entertainment. Something changed all this in 1984, as Gwinnett Place Mall opened […]
Gwinnett Forum | Jan. 10, 2025
“Nothing makes us feel more connected than when we are engaged in a healthy balance of thoughtful speaking and hardcore listening.”
— Belgian-American psychotherapist and relationship expert Eshter Perel (1958- ) via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
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Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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