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 Watching the machinations of the US House of Representatives as the followers try to elect a leader as Speaker is better than a soap opera and almost includes the same themes, minus the sexual innuendos so common to that genre. The Republicans are not a gang that can’t shoot straight. They …
New Orleans In the United States, history is made every day, just as it is everywhere the world turns. Recently, we’re seeing history made in bold letters. A one-hundred-year global pandemic would make the list. So would a siege of the US Capitol abetted by a disgruntled, sulking president in his last days …
New Orleans Is poverty up, down, or about the same? No one seems to know, but we’ll still pretend they care about the answer. Regardless, the question remains as experts, policymakers, and politicians continue to debate the numbers, while people who in fact ARE the numbers, continue to be desperately and disappointingly poor …