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 Ironically, as much as some on the right abhorred people wearing masks only short years ago in the time of Covid, they seem to be of two minds about the issue of masks in the time of Trump. It’s impossible to find anything good to say about the current immigration raids, …
New Orleans The current table thumping by President Trump, Vice-President Vance, and Attorney-General Bondi, seems largely to be a cry that “vengeance is mine” without rhyme, reason, or restraint. It’s hard to tell if this is grief and sorrow over the Kirk assassination being converted into words or a cover for previous plans …
Adirondacks Reading the papers here and there in our polarized country, I was recently struck by how unimaginatively schoolyard is the discourse. I think it was Louisiana’s own rightwing bat-crazy Congressman Higgins who called for the New Orleans Public Health department to be defunded by the federal and state government based on its …