By Elliott Brack | A Lilburn artist is part of the team “The Wall Dogs,” an elite international group, which selects a town each year where they paint murals on walls of that town, transforming it beautifully. He is Sonny Franks, who has produced two wall paintings in Lilburn, the “Lilburn Tunnel Bridge” on the Cofer building, and “Butterflies” on the Lilburn Park Rest Room.
By Elliott Brack | Have you detected a major shift in the national political world? If it proves as big as we think it is, there will be some blockbuster surprises come this fall’s election results. It centers around abortion, and women of all races, in all sections of the country, and old and young, do not want career politicians dictating control of their bodies at either the state and national level.
By Elliott Brack | A public health program with a 98 percent success rate that began in Conyers has been expanded to Gwinnett County and beyond. The counties forming Gwinnett Newton Rockdale Public Health Department, working with View Point Health of Lawrenceville, originally started the program with the Conyers Police Department.
By Elliott Brack | Gwinnett County Commissioners can avoid raising taxes in future years, even with a growing budget, if they will take a step now to ensure fairness among the county taxpayers. That’s because real property owners of Gwinnett are being reassessed this year, meaning most everyone will soon see an increase in their taxes. Property tax notices went out last week, but that tax was based on the previous year’s assessments.
By Elliott Brack | The wheels of progress sometimes turn mighty slowly. Yet every now and then, the wheel moves a little so that when changes arrive, it sometimes surprises us. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling to regulate climate change. That thwarted the Biden Administration. But help was soon to be on the way.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
AUG.t 23, 2022 | The largest marketing agency in Gwinnett was once a Birmingham, Ala., company which bought a local business and made the Gwinnett office its headquarters. The Luckie agency was established in Gwinnett in 2011 and now employs 130 people, with 70 of them based at their 20,000 square foot entire second floor offices across from the City Hall in Duluth. The agency is among the 10th largest in Metro Atlanta.
“As long as you’re working, you stay young. When I’m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
– American Actor and Comedian George Burns (1896-1996).
Below are links to the ballots Gwinnett voters face in the May 21 voting.
NONPARTISAN CANDIDATE ANSWERS
To read answers to four questions posted by GwinnettForum to non-partisan candidates, click here. Answers in partisan races are forthcoming.
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
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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