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 One of the hallmarks of democratic government around the world is whether or not they have created transparent tools to allow their people to review the data and information used and produced to make decisions and spend money. These laws open record or freedom of information laws exist throughout the US …
Ottawa Trump went traveling. There were no state dinners this time. He was visiting a farm in Wisconsin in a Congressional district in trouble in a state that he narrowly won in 2024, but has been breaking hard against him more recently. Farmers, including in the vetted panel, gave him an earful, and, …
Pearl River Having been to one or two events at the Clinton Presidential Center over the years, I get their regular emails on events of one kind or another. Having recently read, Terry Brandon’s Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement, I was reminded how important the perspective of …