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 It’s hard to talk about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, because every day over the last week seems to bring more news of the devastation, particularly for people who had every reason to believe the last thing they had to worry about in these inland and often hilly places was hurricane damage. Living …
New Orleans The polarity embedded in the current presidential and Congressional contests offers as a clear a choice as we have had in my voting life between Harris and Trump. In some quarters, the choice almost seems between good and evil. With voting only one month away, the race is still amazingly close, …
San Francisco I don’t worry much about asteroids. It’s not just because it’s light years, perhaps literally, out of my lane and way past any high school courses and subsequent reading would have given me much of a clue. It’s more in the nature of the old saying, “I got a guy,” which substituted …