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 If you’re in the market to buy a house, you’re in trouble. The current economy is not your friend. The bad news just keeps on coming. Interest rates have jumped to 5.27%, the highest level in 13-years, piling hundreds of dollars onto monthly payments, and over 30-years, a wheelbarrow full …
May 8, 2022 Pearl River With the leak of Justice Alito’s preposterous draft brief overturning Roe v. Wade, the commentariat in the news, social media, city streets, and kitchen tables is in full force. One of the most interesting pieces I have read offered an explanation for this fifty-year rearguard fight to overturn the …
Marble Falls There’s politics and there’s policy, and then there’s just plain reckless, egomaniacal tomfoolery. It’s no longer “don’t mess with Texas.” The signs should now say: Texas is a Mess! Governor Greg Abbott should have his picture on that sign, rather than in public offices around the great state. He’s abandoned public …