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".
Toronto Full disclosure, I’ve sent Wikipedia a couple of dollars from time to time. Not because they are perfect, but because they are wildly useful. I use it all the time, which is why I thought I should give another nonprofit some support, rather than being a freeloader. Sure, I’ve got beefs. Gary Delgado …
Ocean Springs Congress in the first recission or clawback of a legislatively approved appropriation since 1999 under President Clinton canceled $9 billion in funding for foreign aid, which included more than one-billion for public broadcasting, targeting NPR and PBS. Defunding public broadcasting has been on the conservative wish list since the Nixon administration. Republican …
New Orleans Recently, in response to a bit of push and shove from the Trump administration and its compliant appointees, the IRS announced that churches will now be able to make political endorsements to its members. There wasn’t much attention given to this announcement. Most commentators simply shrugged, since mostly the restriction against …