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".
Medellin The calendar is about to flip for another year, and, yes, even in our hyper-modern digital days, there are still plenty of old school calendars turning pages like crazy. I used to try and get my family to make resolutions. I’ve done them myself. It’s hard to get excited about the task though, …
Cartagena Jimmy Carter, peanut farmer, submarine captain, Governor of Georgia, President of the United States, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, passed away at 100 years of age as the longest lived president in the history of the country. There will be a lot of comment on his time under the sun. Some of it …
Santa Marta, Columbia Almost as predicable as the sun rising in the east was the likelihood of a spit fight on the far right about immigrant visas. Actually, it’s only partially about visas, but mainly about immigrants themselves. Some hate them all. Others hate all of them except the ones that make them money. …