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".
Marble Falls On social media, ACORN’s affiliate in Scotland, Living Rent, trumpeted a huge victory in winning rent controls in a historic first anywhere in the United Kingdom by a resounding vote of 89 to 28. Coupled with the progress in Westminster on the housing bill that ACORN and its allies are on …
Marble Falls It’s so outrageous, that I find myself thinking, “not even Trump would pull off a scam like this.” I could be wrong, though. The New York Times reported, somewhat breathlessly, that Trump “…is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him…” …
Marble Falls I’ve been to China. Admittedly, my last visit was 20 years ago in Beijing and Shanghai, when we were looking at how the country handled flooding. Earlier I had been in Hong Kong and Macau, largely on plane layovers. I’ve never been to the megacities that have sprung up in recent …