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 Many tout education, especially higher education, as the ladder to success and equity in society. This notion of general uplift is widely shared by liberals and conservatives despite precious little evidence under girding such belief, quite the contrary. Both sides cling to the exceptions, so that they can avoid dealing with the …
Little Rock Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis in a Twitter technical meltdown has finally announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president. The kowtowing Republican supermajority in the Florida legislature has gone out of their way to pass wild and wooly legislation to establish his ultra-conservative bonafides. Less well known nationally has been the …
Marble Falls Any time you stumble on a news item where the Supreme Court has a unanimous decision in these contentious times, given their fierce ideological divides, it’s almost worth a happy dance just for the heck of it. When it actually does the right thing, and does it for people who need the …