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 Love it or leave it, there’s just something about the American South that just can’t keep people away. By the droves if we’re talking about the continued populations shifts from almost everywhere across the country to the South. By the billions if you look at the Biden infrastructure investments. By the …
Brooklyn The 2024 campaign just got scary for me. Sure, I’ve been following the Biden rollout and the Trump escapades and true-crime stories. Gradually, I’d convinced myself that Trump is stumbling towards the Republican nomination. The field over there continues to crowdsource a bunch of candidates that will dilute the anti-Trump vote and make …
Pearl River I liked President Biden’s position when he was refusing to bargain with the Republican Freedom Caucus dominated proposals from the House of Representatives. Showed grit. It probably wasn’t hard to say in the early days of this standoff, when their demands then and now were essentially that he hands over his …