WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River Minneapolis has been well-known in the past for its fierce winters and sometimes amazing ice sculptures. There are whole festivals to show off their skills and art. Not every city can compete on that level, but that’s old history now, because Minneapolis has shown cities throughout the United States, if not the …
Pearl River When President Bill Clinton, working with Speaker Gingrich, passed their deform welfare bill thirty years ago, converting the program from an entitlement for the lowest income Americans, women with dependent children, to block grants from the federal government to the states, ending in Clinton’s words “welfare as we know it,” it was …
New Orleans Out here in the cheap seats, most of us would think that the US Defense Secretary would be wildly busy, what with Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Israel, the Ukraine, NATO, China, and the list just goes on and on, but I guess we would be wrong. He’s got plenty of time and …