Articles by: Elliott Brack

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BRACK: Your good habits can be quite comforting

By Elliott Brack  |  It’s not all bad that we are all creatures of habit. If nothing else, habits are comforting. You feel at home with some of your habits, relaxed and calm.  You don’t feel threatened by them.  They also give you a certain stability, guiding your life. 

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by · March 29, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: View corrected list of local congressional candidates

By Elliott Brack  |  Ask the average Gwinnettian who is their representative in Congress, or in the Georgia Legislature, and most people come up blank.

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by · March 19, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: 75 legislative candidates seek 34 seats

BRACK: 75 legislative candidates seek 34 seats

By Elliott Brack  |  With a million people now in Gwinnett, it means Gwinnett has a lot of political offices, and more representation in the Georgia House and Senate.

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by · March 15, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Electoral College could give Trump office again

By Elliott Brack  |  Even though Georgia and a majority of the states in our country have not voted in the presidential primary yet, it looks like the nominees are settled. It appears to be Joe Biden for the Democrats and Donald Trump for the Republicans, a rematch of 2020.

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BRACK: Elections, personality disorders and scary story

BRACK: Elections, personality disorders and scary story

By Elliott Brack  |  By Friday, Gwinnettians will know those who will be seeking election this year to Congress, the Legislature, county commission, Gwinnett’s School Board and for positions in the courts, as qualifying closes that day for the coming elections.

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BRACK: Helping immigrants move toward self-sufficiency

By Elliott Brack |  Larry Campbell recognized that education for immigrant children without financial stability for the family doesn’t work. He’s president and CEO of Corners Outreach, based on Shackleford Court in Norcross, downhill from the Vietnam Church on Beaver Ruin Road.  

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by · February 20, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Recent House special elections should cheer Democrats

BRACK: Recent House special elections should cheer Democrats

FEB. 16, 2024  |  In reality, we need to remember, “Trust the people.” So far little has been made about the swing that has been made in the 118th Congress.  The results should warm the hearts of Democrats.

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by · February 16, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Old-time quilting was a necessity for cold nights

By Elliott Brack | For a few nights recently, when visiting our daughter in Durham, N.C., I slept under a quilt that my Mother had made for her granddaughter. It was a beautiful hand-stitched quilt, made painstakingly on a quilting frame. 

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by · February 13, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Tell your legislator to vote against sports gambling 

By Elliott Brack  |  One topic is up front today from disparate elements: the National Football League and the Georgia Legislature: gambling. Here before Super Bowl Sunday, does it appear to you that the National Football League wants to have its cake, and eat it, too?

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by · February 9, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Norcross resident wins  International Tagore art prize

BRACK: Norcross resident wins  International Tagore art prize

By Elliott Brack  |  A local artist has won the 2024 International Tagore Award for outstanding contribution in the field of fine arts.  She is Chitra Ramanathan, who has resided in Norcross since 2019, with her husband, a retired physician.

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by · February 6, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective