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".
London Preparing to fly home, I started reading the papers at 3 AM in Brussels, then 9 AM in Munich, while changing planes, and now in London’s Heathrow at noon, as I wait for the next leg to Chicago and then home to New Orleans. All of the reporters and pundits are as clueless …
Leeds Maybe the pandemic really is over officially, at least if travel is any indication. I was suspicious before leaving New Orleans for England, when I was able to actually print my boarding passes, including for the Newark to London leg. How could this be possible? Yes, there was no vax check going …
Pearl River It was painful to read a recent expose about Alabama. The reporter had spent four months getting a handle on how fines and fees finance small town and county governments in the largely rural Black Belt and were sentencing residents into permanent penury. The State of Alabama is no different because of …