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".
San Francisco No question that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have made a ton of money from their various businesses. Both go up and down on the list of richest people in the world, sometime first, but always in the conversation with a gazillion billions each. But, as the song goes, “money …
San Francisco The headlines were clear. There is finally going to be a new federal rule that prods the vast network of utility companies that produce and transmit the power to business and homes across the country to make and begin to implement long term plans to upgrade the US electricity grid. Like much …
New Orleans Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi are about as far away from being battleground states for the 2024 election as any savvy handicapper or oddsmaker would verify. Unfortunately, these and other deep red states are the places where I end up doing a lot of my work and spending a lot of time. Not …