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 Jim Lynch, a one-time ACORN staffer back in the day and a long-time KABF board member, sent me the obituary in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on Pat House’s passing at 94 years of age. Pat was a long-time comrade and friend of our organizations back to the very beginning in 1970 and …
Helena, Arkansas We were up and out before 5am. This was my monthly trip to Arkansas, but it was going to come with a twist. We were going to stop on the way in Helena West Helena, Arkansas to finally meet Andrew Bagley, publisher and editor of the Helena World. I had been talking …
New Orleans The other day, sitting on a dock on an inlet in Stinson Beach that joins the Pacific Ocean, I was asked an interesting question by a friend and comrade who follows politics on hyper speed and at mine shaft depth. He asked me which state was worse now, Arkansas or Louisiana? By …