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 ACORN made its public debut in Cleveland with a smashing announcement of a jointly authored and researched study between ACORN and VAPAC, the Vacant and Abandoned Properties Action Council, focused on a Baltimore-based company, Riparian Capital Partners. Riparian had acquired 173 properties in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with 153 located in Cleveland. ACORN …
New Orleans KABF is in a special election partnership with the Associated Press this year, which meant that I didn’t just get the terrible news about attacks on Medicaid recipients in Arkansas in the usual ways, along with the racist dogpile that followed the ad, but got a special note from our AP …
New Orleans Book bans are a conservative cause du jour in many parts of the country. PEN America reports that there were over 12,000 books that were banned in public schools in 2025. Texas and Florida are at the top of the leader board in this new censorship movement. School administrators on the …