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 I don’t know if social media is addictive, but I do know almost any of us can slip down the hole they grease up and find ourselves an hour later wondering where time went. If you have time to kill, it’s a weapon of choice, waiting in line, sitting in airports, …
New Orleans The United States under Trump and MAGA is becoming not just a rouge nation, but also an island unto itself, making travel domestically fraught for both natives and immigrants, and building walls at our borders both physically and financially. I’m not even talking about unilateral military actions, which have pushed away …
New Orleans Like it or not, vaccines that have dealt with killing and crippling scourges like typhoid and polio and took measles off the list for most, are a medical marvel. Somehow, they have been caught in political division and conspiracy. We’ll see how that works out. The US is now denying lifesaving medicines …