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 If I’m feeling uneasy, and I’m not the only one, about what politicians and public officials are thinking these days, that’s almost pales compared to what some folks are saying. Social media is generally a hotbed on the cra-cra side of discourse, but most of that is pretty easy to ignore …
Pearl River My handwriting has always been bad, and, to tell the truth, it’s has steadily gotten worse over time. What was sort of rounded in my youth, but at least legible, has become more angular and abbreviated as the years pile up and my hurried writing has, if anything, sped up even more. …
New Orleans In one of the opening salvos in the last stretch of his campaign, Louisiana’s Senator John Neely Kennedy, not to be confused with any other Kennedy people that might come to mind, reacted strongly to President Biden’s marijuana pardons. He seems to be equating them with crackheads and inferring that we …