Cincinnati elected a Black majority on City Council and its first Asian American mayor. Cincinnati has not elected a Black majority on City Council since 2011. It is rare that a Black candidate dominates the city council race and Council Member Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney led the race as the top vote-getter.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861
As the cost of a college education continues to rise, an estimated 45 million consumers collectively owe a record $1.7 trillion dollars in student debt, according to the Federal Reserve, — a $905 billion increase in just the past decade.
Elementary school children in the United States will soon have one more layer of protection to keep them safe from COVID-19.
THE BELOVED LIES ABOUT AMERICA
“THE YOUNGER SIDE”
America was founded on megalomania, an obsession with power of domination over others. This social structure originated in England before finding roots in this Country. To this very day England’s Kings and Queens reign as a symbol of a monarchy. These royal subjects continuously serve as a lineage of white supremacy. But in America, the new experiment took a different approach.
Virginia flipped its gubernatorial affiliation on Nov. 2. The state went with Republican Glenn Youngkin in an upset of incumbent Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Across the country, in off-year elections, Republicans gained political ground.
Election Day in Virginia was a major defeat for the Democratic Party. It could signal a much bigger disaster in 2022 if Democratic officials do not learn the right lessons and do not deliver on the promises they have made to voters.
My Dad skated for the Minnesota Gophers hockey team after he finally got done serving “for the duration” in World War II in the Philippines. So, of course, he was our coach as we PeeWees tried to learn to play hockey in Minnesota in the late 1950s. As a coach, one of his favorite go-to instructions to us was, “OK, team, back to the basics!”
Florida Blue, Florida’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan, announced it is investing nearly $2 million into organizations doing work in Fort Lauderdale’s 33311 zip code as part of the insurer’s initiative to address generational poverty.