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 ACORN’s Voter Purge Project collects the current voter files from more than 45 states and the District of Columbia. We do so on a regular basis in order to monitor the active and inactive voter designations from month to month or quarter to quarter, depending on the cost of the list, so …
Pearl River It was painful to read a recent expose about Alabama. The reporter had spent four months getting a handle on how fines and fees finance small town and county governments in the largely rural Black Belt and were sentencing residents into permanent penury. The State of Alabama is no different because of …