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 […]
By Elliott Brack | From my earliest days, I‘ve always felt a certain “ownership” of Halloween. After all, it’s my birth date.
From my earliest recollection, Halloween has always scared me. Even to this day, I have no truck to watch scary television or movies nor enjoy horror stories. Why give time to something that makes you feel uncomfortable?
By Elliott Brack | Gwinnettians are proud that the Hudgens Center for the Arts and Learning of Duluth awards a significant prize every other year to one Georgia artist. The prize is one of the biggest in the country, amounting to $50,000 cash, plus a solo exhibit at the Hudgens Center for the winner.
By Elliott Brack | Irony reigns. Read on to understand. It was a letter this week from Monte Nichols of Peachtree Corners. He asked simply: “I seem to remember that you previously listed an objective related to having a vital two party presence in the Gwinnett political scene. Is my memory correct?”
By Elliott Brack | Many of our readers may not remember what happened politically in Gwinnett in 1984. It was a major year for change in Gwinnett.
There’s reason many Gwinnettians may not remember it. That’s because in 1984 there were 226,100 people in Gwinnett. Today the population is 921,781, so another 701,681 people live here now. A majority were just not here in 1984.
By Elliott Brack | Today GwinnettForum begins a new service for its readers, aimed at helping make good choices in contested Gwinnett city elections of November. We take this move as part of the first of our Continuing Objectives for Gwinnett County, which says “High quality candidates for elective office in Gwinnett.”
On the right side of each web page, we show a “Candidate Profile” button. Click it and it will take you to a list of 52 candidates for the 12 contested city elections in Gwinnett. There are no city elections this year in Auburn, Berkeley Lake, Duluth and Rest Haven.
By Elliott Brack | The most pressing educational difficulty Gwinnettians face is that sometime in the future, Alvin Wilbanks will face retirement from his position as school superintendent. While we look forward to Mr. Wilbanks’ continued service, we recognize this as a major potential vacancy in our future.
“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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