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".
Pearl River I regularly get postcards and mailings every five years on the turn of the calendar inquiring, demanding, and soliciting my attendance at a college reunion. Having barely completed two years there, I get invitations based on my original class and my kind of secondary class. Either way, I would never go. I …
Buffalo River The Buffalo River is an undammed and undaunted stretch of water for more than 130 miles in Northwest Arkansas. It was the first river to be a designated as a National Park in 1964. It bends and riffles in the middle portion where we had set our sights along high granite …
May 15, 2022 Pearl River Recently we were talking about Pharrell Williams trying to navigate a guest appearance orchestrated by the younger Walton clan at a conference in Bentonville, Arkansas, the Walmart company town. Williams is best known for his song, “Happy”, which was on constant replay everywhere several years ago. You remember, …