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".
Missoula In yet another fragmenting of the power and responsibility of the state, we’re seeing repeated issues where our very modern, post-scarcity, technocratic state is a version of a wilder West, being torn asunder in yet new deputization to unqualified citizen posses and vigilante groups. The front page example is the battle over citizen-enforcement …
Pearl River Everyone I know has learned how to use our local electric utility Entergy app in order to look at their map to try and figure out whether or not their block in their neighborhood and, just maybe, their house has power now eleven days after Hurricane Ida’s impact hit New Orleans. Red means …
Little Rock Here’s an interesting issue that will increasingly become part of the public and private conflict around the polarizing issues of the pandemic: who pays for Covid-19 tests? Underneath the issue of mandates around masks and vaccination, testing is still vital. Often it is the twin in the either-or when workers and others …