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 »Tax Changes How About The Fair Tax?
Let me try to understand this. We are debating changes to our “Progressive” tax code, to make it easier for politicians to shake us down with us liking it, with people who can’t balance the checkbook and won’t listen to us anyway. Am I missing something? So far, I have not yet heard the words […]
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 »Media Update: Collins Helps House Pass Bill to Protect Medicare Access
Collins Helps House Pass Bill to Protect Medicare Access WASHINGTON—Today Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) helped the House of Representatives pass H.R. 849, the Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act of 2017, legislation that would repeal an Obamacare provision that threatens seniors’ access to care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, established the Independent […]
Read More »That Gun Argument Again
That Gun Argument Again… Good ol’ Sen. Diane Feinstein (D- Ca). She can always be counted on to reveal the obvious. On Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, she said: “the U.S. is a “gun happy country,…“and I think there are many of us in growing numbers that don’t want a gun-happy country.” Of course she’s […]
Read More »Currently in a “soft” Lock Down
The Pickens High School is currently in a “soft” lock down, meaning the hallways and common areas are kept clear. This is being done to allow a planned K9 search of the facility. Students are not at risk and this has been a planned operation to continue to make our schools a drug free environment. […]
Read More »Vision of the Strait Gate
Vision- Strait Gate Recently, while just getting up from my couch, in the middle of the afternoon, I had an open vision of the Lord Jesus. I did not see a full face of Him, but I did see the whole person. I walked up behind him. He was standing inside of a fenced yard […]
Read More »Senator David Perdue: This Is The Capstone On A Very Successful Year
Senator David Perdue: This Is The Capstone On A Very Successful Year “I believe a lot of people woke up this morning and realized America is back in business again” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA) joined Bloomberg TV’s What’d You Miss to discuss the historic changes to the tax code that have been sent […]
Read More »Short Takes – Tax Incentives, Why?
Tax Incentives, Why? So, Marco Rubio is the newest wannabe ‘Judas’ in the Republican stable. In the GOP Tax reform plan he demands that the tax reform plan must increase child tax credit incentives to the poor, or he won’t vote for it. This is so he can get re-elected in a Florida now filling […]
Read More »Don’t Let The Flu Catch Up To You
Don’t Let The Flu Catch Up To You: Georgia Dept. of Public Health Encourages Yearly Flu Shot North Georgia – The holidays are almost here, and that means family gatherings and holiday parties where people tend to be in close personal contact. Don’t bring flu to the festivities. National Influenza Vaccination Week is December 3-9, and the […]
Read More »Short Takes – Lessons That Should Be Learned
Lessons That Should Be Learned Apart from the fact that the Democrat Party is in a shambles, and they’ll never admit it, Democrats PAC’s are not necessarily so and are now going all out in funding state and local races, an area dominated by Republicans in recent years, and starting to win some. That is […]
Read More »Senator David Perdue Discusses President Trump’s Asia Trip On CNN
Senator David Perdue Discusses President Trump’s Asia Trip On CNN “President Trump has developed a consensus of support on North Korea and opening doors for a non-kinetic solution. We have to find a way to get through here.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke with […]
Read More »Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Arrest Report 02/05 to 02/12
PCSO arrest report/photos provided by the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office. The Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. 50-18-70) allows for www.fetchyournews.com to obtain and post the arrest records of any and all individuals arrested in Pickens County. Those arrests are posted on www.fetchyournews.com for viewing pleasure. Please remember that all individuals listed have been arrested and […]
Read More »Senior MARTA Executive Sentenced to Federal Prison
SENIOR MARTA EXECUTIVE SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR CAUSING MARTA TO PAY $500,000 FOR WORK NEVER PERFORMED ATLANTA – Former MARTA Senior Director of Operations Joseph J. Erves has been sentenced to two years, nine months in federal prison for orchestrating a false invoicing scheme that resulted in MARTA paying more than $500,000 for maintenance work […]
Read More »The Music Modernization Act Will Provide a Needed Update to Copyright Laws
ICYMI: The Music Modernization Act Will Provide a Needed Update to Copyright Laws WASHINGTON—This op ed by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) first appeared in The Hill on January 11, 2018. I spent my northeast Georgia youth replaying tracks from “Bat Out of Hell” and “Hotel California.” And, of course, staples from Steely Dan. I welcomed the evolution […]
Read More »Short Takes – Israel, A Step Forward?
Israel, A Step Forward So, Trump enacted a long ignored law passed over twenty years ago that officially recognizes Jerusalem as the legitimate capital of the state of Israel by announcing he will move the US Embassy there. Trump’s announcement set off a pre-arranged, spontaneous mass rage event by stateless people, Arab’s, who call themselves […]
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