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 Lunchroom diners in the business districts of cities used to be ubiquitous, but now are dying breed. Carbon copy chains, sandwich shops, Starbucks, and more are everywhere. Diners not so much. When we saw in the paper that Leni’s was closing, we had to make sure we made it there to …
Pearl River My vote was canceled. Yes, I know that’s not supposed to happen, but in the wake of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gutting the voting act and greenlighting gerrymandering to protect party majorities, it’s on. Maybe not everywhere, but in red states where Republicans might not have already sewed up all of …
New Orleans A recent study produced by Yale researchers had some grim news for people living in New Orleans that can be succinctly summarizes as “run for the hills.” With climate change and water rising, their predictions were dour and put the city with water, water, everywhere by 2100. More than twenty years …