Elliott Brack’s Perspective

BRACK: Help! We all are overwhelmed with robocalls!

BRACK: Help! We all are overwhelmed with robocalls!

By Elliott Brack  |  The telephone, once considered a marvel for communications, is becoming more of a nuisance that is bugging many of us. 

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by · February 23, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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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
Note the intricate patchwork on this quilt.

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
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BRACK: What has been your family’s best vacation ever?

By Elliott Brack  |  It was about as small an advertisement in a church newspaper as possible: only one column inch deep. It told of an apartment for rent in Florence, Italy. While we had planned a two-week trip, when we saw the details, the four-week price was so attractive that we booked it immediately.

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by · February 2, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Background on voting about transit in Gwinnett

BRACK: Background on voting about transit in Gwinnett

By Elliott Brack  |  Gwinnett County commissioners have signaled that they plan a vote on another transit plan in the fall of 2024. Therefore, let’s look back at the ways solving the transit problem has been approached in the past.

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by · January 30, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Learn the fascinating story of the Kendeda Fund

BRACK: Learn the fascinating story of the Kendeda Fund

By Elliott Brack  |  Perhaps you have heard of the Kendeda Fund, a nationwide nonprofit we learned that has been based in Georgia in a story from the Saporta Report. We read about it going out of business at the end of 2023, and found it to be one of the most interesting stories of the year, quietly and virtually anonymously operating without most people realizing who was behind it. 

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by · January 26, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley campaigning over the weekend in New Hampshire.  Photo provided.  Credit: Suzanne Youngblood Lane.

BRACK: And now there are two: Which will be the nominee?

By Elliott Brack | And now there are two. At first there were 12 people who said they wanted to run for the Republican nomination for president in 2024.

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by · January 23, 2024 · Elliott Brack's Perspective