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 One of the things the pandemic brought way too many of us which still lingers as a factor, if not a force, in our lives and work is Zoom, where too many of us – or maybe it’s just me – have a love-hate relationship. I’m not saying Zoom isn’t valuable. …
Pearl River My lifelong habit of reading the newspapers that stack up while I’m traveling persists, because I swear it pays dividends. Reading online can never capture everything that is in print, so I maintain the hard copy is a way to harvest what is easily missed otherwise. For all I know, some items …
New Orleans Back in the USA, shaking off a 16-hour flight from Delhi to Newark against headwinds, there was news aplenty, some of it good, some of it not so good. Justice was served in a New York City court across the river, as a jury ruled conclusively that there had been more …