Elliott Brack’s Perspective

BRACK: Fans bring pressure on Major League Baseball to shorten games

BRACK: Fans bring pressure on Major League Baseball to shorten games

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | For those of us who are baseball purists, and for most everyone enjoying baseball these days, there is growing discomfort with the length of baseball games.

As baseball begins, it’s spring training, we thought we might consider some suggestions for improving the game. Most of these comments came from a long story in the New York Times recently, as they had suggestions from people all over the country about improving the game.

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by · March 7, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
The Wall That Heals, in Texas in 2016. Via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Farmers markets, wall that heals, Gwinnett Village and an Apple

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Here we are just into March, and we get an announcement about the Snellville Farmers Market’s upcoming season. Snellville is now accepting applications from vendors and scheduling entertainment for its upcoming eighth season. Wow! Eight years. Seems only yesterday.

The Snellville market will be each Saturday, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., June 3 through Sept. 30. The market is located on the Towne Green at the intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and Oak Road. Also: The Wall That Heals, more.

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by · March 2, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Plant Hatch

BRACK: Nuclear reactor floating up the Altamaha was an amazing site

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Every now and then, in the course of routine matters, an event takes place that makes you catch your breath. That happened to me about 1970, when Georgia Power Company was building its nuclear Plant Hatch near Baxley.

The reactor vessel for the plant was built in Chattanooga, Tenn., then shipped by barge down the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, across Florida, and eventually up the Altamaha River to Baxley.

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by · February 28, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Gwinnett needs urgency on tackling question of mass transit here

BRACK: Gwinnett needs urgency on tackling question of mass transit here

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | It was a terrific blow to the Gwinnett economy recently when WestRock Company announced that it was moving its company home office from its Thrasher Street location in Norcross to Sandy Springs. With this announcement some 800 jobs will be lost to Gwinnett County.

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by · February 23, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Hui TzTemple off Satellite Boulevard in Suwanee.

BRACK: Church plans Lenten series of speakers on 4 different religions

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Four different religions will be the focus of four Lenten programs at Christ Episcopal Church in Norcross during Wednesdays in March. People of all faiths are invited for the weekly programs, which will begin at 6 p.m. with soup and salad in the church parish hall, followed by the one-hour presentation and discussion.

Previous popular Lenten series have focused on military, medical and judicial ethics.

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by · February 21, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Krewatch

BRACK: Lawrenceville getting new way to buy books Saturday: By the pound

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Gwinnett and all of Atlanta on Saturday will have a new way to buy high quality used books — by the pound!

The book store’s name is “Books by the Pound,” a new concept opening Saturday in Lawrenceville at 860 Georgia Highway 120, across from Fairview Presbyterian Church, near the intersection of Georgia Highway 316. The new retail idea will also sell used video games, music CDs and boxed sets of television shows….all at tremendous discounts.

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by · February 16, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Judges give new president perhaps his first and only “No!”

BRACK: Judges give new president perhaps his first and only “No!”

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Finally, and maybe for the first time, someone has said “No” to Donald Trump.

About the only other time he may have heard the words “No” was from his two previous wives, who finally divorced him. For sure, it seems that he has never heard the words from his parents, who must have given him his every wish. For sure they staked him with vast sums to start his fiefdom.

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by · February 14, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Have you faced problems with your keyless auto not starting?

BRACK: Have you faced problems with your keyless auto not starting?

Ah, modern science! How many wondrous ways does it help us today.

Most of the time.

Most of the drivers on our roadways have for their entire driving life, when they got into an automobile, inserted a key into the ignition, twisted it, and the car’s engine came to life. Routine.

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by · February 9, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Carraway

BRACK: Gwinnettians enjoy trip to Super Bowl, but also disappointed

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Among the Georgians trekking to Houston to see the Atlanta Falcons play in the Super Bowl were Carla and Tommy Carraway of Snellville. Carla is president of Precision Planning in Lawrenceville and he’s a banker in Winder. Learning last week that this was their plan, we made arrangements to contact Carla Monday morning as they were returning to Atlanta.

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by · February 7, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Bits and pieces from all over, including a bumper sticker with a twist

BRACK: Bits and pieces from all over, including a bumper sticker with a twist

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Today it’s more Bits and Pieces collected from the last few days. Most recently, we spotted this decal when stopped at a traffic light on the bumper of an auto in front of me: “Do you follow Jesus this closely?”

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by · February 2, 2017 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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