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".
Houston If we don’t have enough to worry about, there’s always more, right? Organizationally and personally, we’re fans of open source as our choice for access to email and internet. I should add to databases for ACORN members as well, since we use Civi. Why support the tech overlords anymore than we must? That’s …
New Orleans Dr. Alister Martin is New York City’s health commissioner, and he’s a hero of the people in my book. Even better, he’s singing our song and doing so loudly and clearly, when it comes to keeping people on Medicaid against the Trump and Republican assault of the big bad budget bill …
New Orleans I won’t speculate, as experts do in the Times, about whether or not Trump is losing it, because I can’t verify that he ever “had it,” given his nth degree of narcissism. I can say that if he was borderline before, he’s crossed over into another territory now with his recent …