If you don’t like bugs you may want to plan on staying inside next month. A synchronized emergence of 17-year cicadas is set to hatch in early May across much of the South – including North Georgia. The Great Eastern Brood, also ominously known as ‘Brood X,’ has spent the past 17 years underground in their ‘nymph’ stage, feeding on roots, and are currently preparing to emerge and mate before dying off after just one month. That month will be noisy, and if you don’t like bugs, maybe a little gross. If you’re not as squeamish you can sign up to help record cicada info. using the Cicada Safari app, which will help scientists collect data on this interesting phenomenon. For North Georgia bug watchers and inquisitive minds this Summer will be RISING…
A new ‘gimmick’: College “opportunity tuition” for illegal aliens
Conservative Georgia voters are “give-me-that-phone” outraged that HB 120 passed out of the Republican-controlled House Higher Education Committee last Thursday. Sponsored by Rep. Kasey Carpenter, R-Dalton, it adjusts Georgia law so illegal aliens pay far less...In-state tuition bill for illegal aliens: a negative review
State Rep. Kasey Carpenter, R-Dalton, presented the latest version of his legislation granting in–state college tuition for illegal aliens in the House Higher Education Committee last Friday. He was on Zoom from his car parked “on the side of the...Ga. Law: Jailers must report incarcerated illegal aliens to feds
In 2011, Aurelio Mayo Perez, an illegal alien, was booked into the Cobb County jail for no driver’s license but released due to an immigration enforcement reduction edict from then-President Barack Obama. Two years later, Mayo Perez was charged with...Metro Atlanta more dangerous after two Democrat sheriffs elected
Metro Atlanta and Georgia were set on their way to becoming much more dangerous places on November 3rd— and the chaos over the alleged fraud in the election should not distract from that truth. Two Democrats in Cobb and Gwinnett counties— Craig Owens...
