Believe me, it’s better than “leading from behind.” Oh, sure, if you are the leader, the view’s the same despite the dust, but when you know what you’re looking for, the perspective changes and the dangers reveal themselves including all the obstacles, the road ruts, the promises broken and the many forks in the road […]
Read More »Lt. Governor Cagle to Host Final Health Care Reform Task Force Meeting of 2017
Lt. Governor Cagle to Host Final Health Care Reform Task Force Meeting of 2017 ROME, GA. Oct. 25, 2017 – Lt. Governor Casey Cagle – along with Sens. Hufstetler, Unterman, Burke, Hill, Kirkpatrick, Rhett and Watson – will hold a meeting of Georgia’s Health Care Reform Task Force at Berry College on MONDAY, Oct. 30 at […]
Read More »Fatherhood
“Fatherhood” One day while just talking to the Lord about the issues of life, I realized that I am an old man, and yet I am being fathered. We have a heavenly Father. I have someone who will hear all of my troubles, and understand all of my fears; someone who knows and cares about […]
Read More »Fall Shrub Care
Fall Shrub Care By: Eddie Ayers, County Extension Agent It’s that time of year when we must start looking ahead and planning for the upcoming winter. The shrubs in our landscape will benefit greatly from a little bit of tender loving care this fall. Shrubs going into the winter that are hungry (lacking fertilizer) […]
Read More »November Public Health Inspection Scores
BACK PORCH BISTRO (Food Service Inspections) 10 NORTHSIDE SQUARE ELLIJAY, GA 30540 View inspections: November 14, 2017 Score: 99, Grade: A Charlie’s Italian Restuarant AND PIZZERIA (Food Service Inspections) 15 WEST CROSS STREET EAST ELLIJAY, GA 30540 View inspections: November 2, 2017 Score: 91, Grade: A COUNTRY CORNER KITCHEN (Food Service Inspections) 2020 OLD HWY […]
Read More »Benton MacKaye Trail Association (BMTA) Press Release
PRESS RELEASE: The Benton MacKaye Trail Association (BMTA) is seeking volunteers to help with trail maintenance for an upcoming work trip. According to Barry Allen, Georgia work trip coordinator for the BMTA, a work trip is planned for Saturday, Nov. 25, on a section of trail within the Big Frog Wilderness Area in Tennessee. Blowovers […]
Read More »Short Takes – Treachery Rewarded?
Deep within the hidden recesses of the Pentagon, lurks a nondescript DoD group called the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, the lead agency apparently, for interviewing recovered, rescued or deserter prisoners of war, and other captives. Among their latest achievements, is realizing the fall out gathered from interviews (interrogations?) of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A lead […]
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GDOL to Co-Sponsor Northeast Georgia Career Fair in Cumming
GDOL to co-sponsor Northeast Georgia Career Fair in Cumming ATLANTA – About 60 employers will be recruiting to fill a number of jobs at the Northeast Georgia Career Fair in Cumming on Oct. 5. The expo will be co-sponsored by the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL), Cumming-Forsyth Chamber of Commerce, WorkSource Georgia Mountains and Lanier Technical College. […]
Read More »ICYMI: Collins Discusses Rosenstein Briefing and Tax Reform
Collins Discusses Rosenstein Briefing and Tax Reform WASHINGTON—Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference and member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined Fox News today to discuss the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He also spoke with Fox Business about the status of conservative tax […]
Read More »Benton MacKaye Trail Association Press Release
PRESS RELEASE: The Benton MacKaye Trail Association (BMTA) is seeking volunteers to help with trail maintenance for an upcoming work trip. According to Barry Allen, Georgia work trip coordinator for the BMTA, a work trip is planned for Saturday, Dec. 9, on a section of trail near Fall Branch Falls in Fannin County. This month’s […]
Read More »Short Takes – What’s Behind the Story?
What’s Behind the Story? The ecstatic hoopla by Democrats and the liberal media surrounding Lt.Gen. Flynn’s plea of guilty of lying to the FBI, is too early, too gleeful and really, too devoid of connection as to have much meaning to the Left’s real aim of bringing down the Trump administration. Flynn’s dilemma is a […]
Read More »Short Takes – The Sexual Predator(s) in Our Midst
The Sexual Predator(s) in Our Midst This story is not new, it just involves new people. I read an account of Maureen O’Hara’s entry into the Hollywood scene in 1945, before her stardom, when she was propositioned by a film studio owner, not identified in the article. Her Irish temper flared and she quickly put […]
Read More »You can QUIT during the Great American Smokeout(R), Nov. 16th
North Georgia – Ready to quit? You can do it for at least one day this Thursday, November 16th during the Great American Smokeout®! Every year on the third Thursday of November, many Georgians join tobacco users across the nation in giving up using tobacco and electronic cigarettes for the entire day during this Great American Smokeout® event, initiated […]
Read More »Correction: Collins Votes to Extend Chip and Protect DSH Resources
Collins Votes to Extend Chip and Protect DSH Resources WASHINGTON—Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) joined the House of Representatives in voting today to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through 2022 and protect funding for rural hospitals. The Championing Healthy Kids Act, H.R. 3922, uses offsets to fund CHIP and programs like community health centers […]
Read More »The Power of Shouting
The Power of Shouting When political correctness trumps the truth to suppress alternate opinions, it is because PC is accompanied by a bodyguard of fear. Fear of being shouted down without benefit of dialogue, fear of being ostracized by one’s peers in the workplace, and fear of losing a job because you, the ‘offender,’ was […]
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