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 Once upon a time, before Trump that is, the qualifications for running for political office were straight forward. You needed to be a citizen of a certain age, depending on the office you were seeking, and in some cases, you needed to have been born in the United States, as Elon …
Cartagena Jimmy Carter, peanut farmer, submarine captain, Governor of Georgia, President of the United States, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, passed away at 100 years of age as the longest lived president in the history of the country. There will be a lot of comment on his time under the sun. Some of it …
New Orleans For all the talk from conservatives about strangling the government in a bathtub and similar hyperboles, as well as the Elon Musk project to starve a lot of it to near death life-support level, the reality is that a competent and efficient government is critical in all countries, perhaps especially the United …