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 The Ohio vote on the efforts by the Republican-dominated legislature to raise the bar on initiative amendments to the constitution by citizens was an almost 3 to 2 beat down with the NO votes at over 1.7 million and the YES votes hardly 1.3 million. Conservatives had tried to pitch this vote …
Marble Falls Voters in Ohio are trying to protect their ability to bring initiative petitions to the ballot in a closely watched election in August of all times. In an ongoing trend, Republican legislators are trying to make the process harder, in the Ohio case to keep voters from having their say about …
Marble Falls New Orleanians aren’t too happy joining the rest of the country in talking about the heat, while recording record temperatures along with the others. The standard line in the city has always been, “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” This summer it seems to be both, but it’s August and …