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 It’s painful to have a backrow seat in the Floridification of Louisiana. After an eight-year interlude with John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in the powerful governor’s posit in Louisiana as an offset to the largely Republican legislature, the election of the far right former Attorney General Jeff Landry as governor, coupled …
New Orleans Part of President Biden’s infrastructure program sought to broaden access to the internet. On one level, it sought to make broadband coverage universal at a cost of over $42 billion. On another level, it sought to enable lower-income families to access the Internet by subsidizing the bills charged by private companies. Most …
Marble Falls From what I read; it’s getting rougher out there. Bullying has always been a problem in the schoolyard since time immemorial. With social media, all stops are off with teens, women, and anyone even slightly different than the herd. Those of us now long grown can be thankful that we escaped the …