Author: 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

     A new investigative report, RENT NOW, PAIN LATER: How “Rent Now, Pay Later Loans” Put Working People at Risk, shares how these lenders are pushing loan products that involve hidden high costs, misleading claims and deceptive practices that push already-underpaid workers further into debt. Further, the fine print in these loans builds in abuses that deny consumers a legal right to challenge the fraudulent practices or to recover their hard-earned monies. 

  Delaware State’s Louise Juitt (145 lbs.) and Icart Galumette (117 lbs.), along with Allen University’s Isis Severe (131 lbs.) finished in the top three in their weight classes in this weekend’s NCAA Women’s Wrestling Region III championships.

     Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a vanity project, putting his name and image all over Washington (most recently, a banner of him atop the department of justice), campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, pimping for cybercurrency. He’s every bit the rival of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin when it comes to a cult of personality. His latest venture is the Board of Peace, which is not really about promoting peace in Gaza or anywhere else—certainly not in Iran, Ukraine, or Latin America. It’s another self-promoting venture in Trump’s desperate quest to be honored as a peacemaker while operating like a warmonger and investment banker.

     California politics is currently being shaken up thanks to a drive, led by the Service Employees International Union, to enact a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to offset federal cuts to healthcare and support public education and food assistance programs. Campaigning for the measure, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told an enthusiastic crowd that “never before have so few people had so much wealth and so much power.” In a democratic society, he thundered, “the billionaire class cannot have it all.”

      When Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl halftime performer, critics predicted backlash. He’d be too Spanish. Too political. Not “American” enough. The assumption was that in a country this polarized, cultural borders were fixed — and he stood on the wrong side of them.