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".
Little Rock Tip O’Neil, the iconic old Boston pol, and former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, once famously expressed the dicta, “all politics are local.” Even as the modern world is increasingly knitted together, that observation continues to hold in many areas. What may be changing is not the fact that all politics are local, but …
Little Rock All of the pundits and the smart money are saying that the Supreme Court, in arguments made currently on the Mississippi challenge to the 50-year-old decision, are going to sound the death knell on Roe v. Wade, if not now, then soon. This has been a fight for almost all of those fifty years, relentless on …
New Orleans In the post-Floyd era, we want to believe that real reform is coming to our criminal justice system. There was so much talk that we deeply want to believe that there has been some action. We know that these issues have become polarized politically, but we still hope that some of the …