Fayette County currently has highest Census 2020 response rate of any county in Georgia, with local census officials asking that everyone who has not participated do so. According to the Census 2020 website for census response rates, as of Aug. 21, Fayette County has the highest return rate of any county in the state of…Continue Reading
Here’s the Covid-19 pandemic report from the Georgia Department of Public Health as of 2:50 p.m., Aug. 26. SUMMARY: After a brief dip, Covid-19 cases numbers and percentage of confirmed illnesses are on the rise in Fayette. Fayette reported 19 new cases today, while the rates of positive confirmed tests have risen from 5.2% two days…Continue Reading
The Fayette County Public School System’s state-funded Bright from the Start Pre-K program currently has openings for the 2020-2021 school at seven of its elementary schools. The following schools have openings: Cleveland Elementary: 770-716-3905 Fayetteville Elementary: 770-460-3560 Inman Elementary: 770-460-3565 North Fayette Elementary: 770-460-3570 Peachtree City Elementary: 770-631-3250 Sara Harp Elementary: 770-716-3910 Spring Hill Elementary: 770-460-3432 Families interested in registering their child…Continue Reading
Fairfax County school buses sit in a in Lorton, Va., July 22, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools has instructed principals in the district to suspend students who refuse to wear a mask in school, defying an order by Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin that grants parents the authority to select whether…Continue Reading
Pro-life demonstrators take part in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C, January 21, 2022. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Thousands of pro-life demonstrators converged on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. Friday for the 49th annual March for Life with a collective conviction and commitment to defeating abortion in their lifetime. Thousand of pro-life demonstrators make the…Continue Reading
A Police vehicle sits outside of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, January 16, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images) FBI officials said Friday that a British national taking a rabbi and three other people at a Texas synagogue last weekend was an “act of terrorism” and a “federal hate crime.” “This is…Continue Reading
The young Army veteran thinks he has what it takes to score a Republican upset. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n a nation increasingly polarized along rural–urban lines, Georgia’s second congressional district goes against the trend. Rural voters in the 2020 election broke for Republicans by overwhelming numbers: 1,302 of the 1,430 most rural counties in…Continue Reading
Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) speaks to reporters before attending a caucus meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) For a year, Manchin has been making his position on his fellow Democrats’ grand policy ambitions clear. They have yet to get the message. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE…Continue Reading
Listen & Repeat: How to pronounce the short ‘U’ sound in English · engVid Watch, listen, learn, and practice how to say the short ‘U’ sound correctly and naturally in English. Improve your pronunciation immediately and correct a very common mistake made by English learners, especially Spanish speakers. Make sure you’re saying “culture” and not…Continue Reading
(FORT COLLINS, Colo.) — The boyfriend of slain cross-country traveler Gabby Petito admitted killing her in a notebook discovered near his body in a Florida swamp, the FBI announced Friday. It was the first time authorities squarely pinned the blame for Petito’s death on Brian Laundrie, though he was the prime suspect all along. Investigators…Continue Reading