Category: Featured
-
Governor, First Lady Applaud Recipients of Arts and Humanities Awards
ATLANTA – December 1, 2025 – Governor Brian P. Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp today applauded the recipients of the 14th annual Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities, which honor individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to Georgia in these fields. The awards are presented in partnership with Georgia Council for the…
-
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA 14) stopped into Cedartown for a town hall session on February 22, 2022. Greene announces plan to resign from Congress
The Congresswoman who was a fervent supporter of Make America Great Again’s wing of the GOP and of President Donald Trump has decided enough is enough, and will be giving up her seat in January according to posts on social media she made tonight. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her intentions to resign from the seat…
-
"Computer Keyboard" by BigOakFlickr is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Cloudflare outage causes major sites to go down
CTO admits technical issue caused cascading failure across internet Some of the world’s favorite digital destinations went down for a while this morning, but it wasn’t their fault. Apparently a bug with a major underlying service that provides a variety of technical offerings for companies big and small called Cloudflare began a patch to a…
-
Shutdown over: House sends Senate deal to President Trump for signature
The shutdown is coming to an end – so long as President Donald Trump signs the bill bringing it to a close. The House of Representatives finally came back into session on Wednesday to start back business after being closed for months as Speaker Mike Johnson refused to hear any negotiations to re-open the government,…
-
No more pennies: Philadelphia Mint pressing final one-cent coin today
The penny is set to be no more as the U.S. Mint pressed their final penny to mark the end new circulations of the coin worth just a single cent. The Philadelphia mint produced is producing its final round of the coins today following President Donald Trump’s cancellation of the 1-cent coin earlier in the…
-
Deal or No Deal? Senate Dems break ranks to push legislation to re-open government
Will the government finally re-open after six weeks of closure? That’s still to be decided despite a Sunday vote by the United States Senate to push through a deal to re-open the federal government as the 41st day of the shutdown came and went. Senators voted 60-40 to approve a measure to seek compromise legislation…
-
SNAP Benefits remain unpaid as Supreme Court stays order until Admin’s appeal is heard
Will the benefits get paid out or not? That remains a question top on the mind of millions of Americans who earlier this month saw the government shutdown hit directly where it hurts: their pocketbooks. Amid the back-and-forth finger pointing of who is to blame for the lapse in Federal funding, the Trump administration shut…
-
A plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky killed 12 people – including the three crew on board – on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. (Photo By JWoods86 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 – https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177857027) UPS plane crash investigation underway; Engine fell off during takeoff before second shutoff causing crash
Twelve people died and many more injured following a horrible crash of the UPS cargo plane taking off from Louisville-Muhammed Ali Airport on Tuesday evening, causing a massive 1/2 mile wide fire in the process. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board briefed the press today and confirmed that based on initial evidence, an engine…
-
UPS Plane crashes on takeoff in Louisville
The death toll is rising along with the number of injured after a UPS plane crashed upon takeoff from the global aviation facilities at Louisville’s Airport on Tuesday, leaving at least seven killed and 11 injured so far. The crash took place around 5:15 p.m. as the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 from the facility and crashed…
-
President of the United States Donald Trump meeting General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping before the 2025 APEC Summit in Busan, South Korea. (The White House via Wikimedia Commons) Cooling trade tensions with China?
People’s Republic agree to buy 25 million tons of soybeans from American farmers per year, Trump lowers tariff rates This deal is likely a first step, but an important one as President Donald Trump’s latest trip to Asia will end with more than just a replica gold crown as a souvenir. The Associated Press is…