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".
New Orleans Mississippi has many problems as one of the poorest and reddest of American states. Of course, there’s the constant battle to offset its well-deserved bad reputation that predated the Civil Rights movement, which exposed its draconian racial reputation internationally. Recent advantages in youth education still couldn’t get as many headlines as …
Pearl River Chuck Norris passed away recently at 86. He was a former kick-boxer, sometime movie actor, and occasional television star. In martial-arts, he was good enough to be in some of the legendary Bruce Lee flicks in the 70s and managed to show up in 32 films before he was done. In television, …
Pearl River On my side of the line, all of us grouse about how big donors have infiltrated and bought the US political system almost lock, stock, and barrel since Citizens United. Many of us had hopes for small donors in 2008, when Obama first ran and did so well tapping into this vast …