Author: Carma Henry

       In March 2025, kicking off his assault on workers’ wages, Trump rescinded a Biden administration executive order that had increased the minimum wage that federal contractors must pay their workers who are employed in government services. These 400,000 workers included janitors in federal buildings, food service workers, cashiers in gift shops and national parks, and security guards. Thanks to Trump’s action, the minimum wage for these workers fell from $17.75 to $13.30 an hour, a 25 percent pay cut.

       It appears the media and government were pretending all was hunky-dory with the high alcohol-related death count before the two Ole Miss students allegedly died from using Kratom. Compared to its high death count and economic cost, alcohol is a gaping wound and Kratom is a pin prick.

       China’s President Xi Jinping’s sixth visit to the US has come and gone. Expectations were low for any kind of breakthrough on longstanding issues such as Taiwan’s status, human rights, the SCS, and especially tariffs. 

     On September 30, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will host her regional counterparts at a “pro-nuclear summit” at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, for the public to supposedly learn about the so-called safety and benefits of “advanced” nuclear energy. Protesters will be there in droves, led in part by the Clamshell Alliance, which began exposing the perils of atomic energy half a century ago. The dangers nukes pose haven’t changed; 21st century marketing has.

     Do you remember the Wendy’s commercial where the lady asked the question, where’s the beef? Clara Peller, an actress made that line famous. At one point years ago, that was a popular tagline.

   As a 62-year-old “Single Senior Citizen,” I accepted the call to minister about the issues never-married and divorced folks face—a subject we rarely hear about. Maybe you’re reading this and thinking, “That’s not my problem.” But for us Followers of Christ (the FOCs—committed “Christians”), it’s a conversation we need to have. FOCs are folks who strive to honor God, have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and actively work to live out what the Bible teaches. In other words, NO GAMES! We take James 1:22 (NIV) seriously: “Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive YOURSELVES. Do what it says.”

       Tim mentioned these symptoms to a doctor he saw for high cholesterol. While his blood work was good, further testing, including an echocardiogram and stress test, found something he didn’t expect. He had a heart attack sometime in the previous two years that he didn’t know about.

       Broward County Public Schools is facing a question that may seem difficult to reconcile: How can a district with roughly 60,000 empty seats also have classrooms that parents say are overcrowded?

       The Cobb County School District announced the removal Thursday (September 17), according to CBS News Atlanta. The district serves about 100,000 students, making Cobb County the second-largest school district in Georgia, according to Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB).

       Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath is pushing back on new cellphone findings presented by Nolan Wells’ family attorneys, disputing claims that someone accessed Wells’ phone after his last known use and accusing the legal team of withholding portions of its forensic analysis.