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 A recent study produced by Yale researchers had some grim news for people living in New Orleans that can be succinctly summarizes as “run for the hills.” With climate change and water rising, their predictions were dour and put the city with water, water, everywhere by 2100. More than twenty years …
Pearl River This is one of those multiple degrees of separation things that takes twists and turns between politics, conspiracy, and the general bizarre linking Andrew Breitbart, the rightwing provocateur, whose name survives still in a whack website he founded, Saul Alinksy, the legendary community organizing icon, and, as it turned out, someone caught …
Pearl River Sometimes I find myself just wondering about this and that, take for example lightning, thunder, and smelling salts. In the middle of the night, lightning was brightening the room followed by loud, deep roars of thunder. From childhood, I’ve counted 1001 between every roar to tell me how far away the lightning …