Elliott Brack’s Perspective

BRACK: The government is considering regulating how we keep time

BRACK: The government is considering regulating how we keep time

By Elliott Brack  |  So, what’s your take on how we should keep the time? Do you like the idea of “Spring Forward” and then “Fall Back?” How to count the time is controversial.  The timing question has strong advocates among us for both sides. Now the U.S. Senate has jumped into this fray. If the Senators  had their way, our country would be permanently on what we now call Daylight Saving Time.

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BRACK: Flock camera system reducing crime in Gwinnett

By Elliott Brack  |  Two Georgia Tech graduates are making life better in Gwinnett and in the nation after  developing a new way to fight crime. They uncovered a statistic – that seven out of 10 crimes involved a vehicle – and then tweaked a camera to capture the license plate of cars visiting an area, which has greatly reduced the crime rate where the cameras were installed.

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BRACK: Know a candidate? Make sure they contact the Forum soon

BRACK: Know a candidate? Make sure they contact the Forum soon

By Elliott Brack  |  Do you, as a reader of GwinnettForum, personally know any of the current Gwinnett or statewide political candidates? If you do, you can help GwinnettForum, and even moreso, you can be of major assistance to the candidate.   This time of year, we are spending 30 minutes with as many candidates as we can. That’s to evaluate their candidacy and determine which candidates GwinnettForum will endorse in the primary and general election.

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BRACK: The war in Ukraine: Can China become a peace negotiator?

By Elliott Brack  |  Please understand up front that we know few people who are well-versed about the country of Ukraine.  Certainly, we are not in that category. Yet just watching the news reports, and reading the dispatches about the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, certain  elements pop out at us:

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by · March 29, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Ryan shows us how to bow out of Atlanta with grace

BRACK: Ryan shows us how to bow out of Atlanta with grace

By Elliott Brack |  Don’t you just love it when someone bows out with class and poise?  It might happen anywhere, and whoever it is gains new stature because of their grace under dire circumstances. This week we saw one person departing an Atlanta career with distinction. We’re talking about former Atlanta Falcon Quarterback Matt Ryan, who was summarily traded to the Indianapolis Colts after 14 seasons in Atlanta.

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by · March 25, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Help us figure out which is the oldest business in Gwinnett

BRACK: Help us figure out which is the oldest business in Gwinnett

By Elliott Brack  |  Let me invite GwinnettForum readers to join me on a quest that will tell us more about Gwinnett. See if you can come up with what is the oldest business in your city under continuous operations, and try to figure out, too, which is the oldest business in Gwinnett. You see, no governmental agency keeps tabs of businesses that way.  We’ll just have to figure it out.

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by · March 22, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Wow! Voters face 117 candidates during Gwinnett primary

BRACK: Wow! Voters face 117 candidates during Gwinnett primary

By Elliott Brack  |  This year is going to be a hot season in Gwinnett politically, as 117 persons are candidates for local office. Wow.  So many! Lots of offices have several candidates.  Out of all the many seats open, four legislative candidates have no opposition at all, meaning they’ll be back for the 2023 General Assembly without having to pound the pavement for votes. 

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by · March 18, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: Success of MTI Tubs leads to sale to European company 

By Elliott Brack  |  It was an on-the-ropes bathtub manufacturer, not doing too well. But when the used car salesman, former Lockheed machinist and a guy who enjoyed tinkering took over the Duluth company, things looked up.  You see, J.C. Henry had a way of fixing things, and first thing you know, his newly-acquired company, then known as Mr. Tubs, took off. 

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by · March 15, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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BRACK: One guy’s faith in Coach K really paid off for Duke 

By Elliott Brack  |  Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is basking in honors these days, as he nears the end of his meteoric career.  He is worthily being recognized for being the best college basketball coach ever, as evidenced by his record 1,196 victories … and still counting as the team enters the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament this week.

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by · March 11, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: Timing of school board nonpartisan election is flawed 

BRACK: Timing of school board nonpartisan election is flawed 

By Elliott Brack  |  Gwinnett voters will elect two members of the school board in 2022, and this  vote will be in a nonpartisan election. However, we feel the change in the law to require a nonpartisan election is flawed. You see, the people writing the new regulations never considered the best way to have a nonpartisan election. They just went along with the requirements in the only other non-partisan election in Gwinnett, where judges are elected.

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