Elliott Brack’s Perspective

BRACK: Top officials predict what their city census count will be

BRACK: Top officials predict what their city census count will be

APRIL 30, 2020  |  The 2020 Census state population figures were released this week, providing little information for us except which states gained and lost population. A more detailed and useful release of Census data will come in August, when we will know population figures down to cities and counties.

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by · April 30, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
The 1907 entrance at the University of Georgia campus.  Image via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Georgia Regents “pause,” perhaps avoiding another Cocking Affair

By Elliott Brack   |  It’s an important incident in Georgia history and politics. It happened in 1941 and was called “The Cocking Affair.”

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by · April 27, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Norfolk Southern makes grievous mistake on Spencer statue

By Elliott Brack  |  Norfolk Southern, the railroad, headquartered in Atlanta, has unjustifiably made a decision that smacks of bad management and yielding to pressure.  It has determined to remove a statue of the railroad’s founder from public view. 

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by · April 23, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
This house was leveled in the Newnan tornado.  National Weather Service photo.

BRACK: Trip to south Fulton opens eyes; Tornado devastates Newnan

By Elliott Brack  |  Getting out of the house Friday after voluntary COVID-imposed staying-at-home, we drove to part of Metro Atlanta we know little about, South Fulton County. (The area was once Campbell County, but was absorbed by Fulton when Campbell went broke during the Depression.)

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by · April 20, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilots fly near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, April 5, 2017.   U.S. Army photo via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Pulling American troops out of Afghanistan

By Elliott Brack  |  About our American troops in Afghanistan, President Biden cannot pull our troops out of there fast enough for me. Our country should have never been deployed sending American troops to that part of the world.

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by · April 16, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Grove Park Inn, via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Novel set at Grove Park Inn introduces enemy internment

By Elliott Brack  |  A new novel by an American Cherokee Indian set at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville gave me insights into a side note of World War II history.  The book, Even As We Breathe, is by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, the first enrolled member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians to publish a novel.  It was released in September.  The author graduated from Yale University and The College of William and Mary. She is the executive director of the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, and an English teacher at Swain County (N.C.) High.

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by · April 13, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Modern world can’t get along without electricity,  batteries

By Elliott Brack  |  First came Ben Franklin, establishing a connection between lightning and electricity. Then Alessandro Volta developed the early battery. Soon Michael Faraday developed electric motor technology. George Ohm mathematically analyzed the electrical circuit. Many others made their own contributions to modern electricity, notably among them Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Werner von Siemens, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse. 

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Kemp.  Photo via Office of the Governor.

BRACK: Could the voting limits take down a sitting governor?

By Elliott Brack  |  You wonder if Gov. Brian Kemp sealed his political future last week when he signed the new voter suppression bill almost immediately after it passed the Legislature, a knee-jerk reaction if we have ever seen one.

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BRACK: Symphony performance with granddaughter was great fun

By Elliott Brack |  Presented with two tickets to the symphony, we jumped at the offer. After all, we had not been in attendance at anything much at all during the pandemic, except for two special outdoor church services. 

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BRACK: Flap develops over cost of collecting Gwinnett city taxes

BRACK: Flap develops over cost of collecting Gwinnett city taxes

By Elliott Brack  |  Out of nowhere, a change in the way the new Gwinnett Tax Commissioner wants to charge eight Gwinnett cities for her work in collecting municipal taxes has developed.

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by · March 30, 2021 · Elliott Brack's Perspective