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 It’s one thing for Fox’s Tucker Carlson to make a deal with the devil, my soul for higher viewer numbers, but it’s another thing for the rest of us to have to live with the blowback from all of his lying ways. I can honestly say that I’ve never listened to one-minute …
Little Rock Let’s be honest, this work is hard, and sometimes you don’t know whether to jump up and down and shout with joy or scream in frustration and pain. That’s a little bit of the mixed feelings I had reading an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal about the …
New Orleans Driving from Houston to New Orleans only days ago, we ran into gas stations that were selling for $3.59 per gallon at the pump. In and around New Orleans, we saw prices between $4.19 and $3.69. That’s a pretty big spread. For a lower income family that could add up to …