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".
Pearl River I have to agree with Helen Jensen, the Chicago-area nurse that first figured out that a killer had poisoned people she was caring for at her hospital by tampering with a bottle of Tylenol, when she says that the killer, “changed the world because of what he did.” I have to admit …
Pearl River Another administration, this time under President Joe Biden, is talking about chopping down part of the forest of paperwork to access governmental programs, benefits, and services. Commentators note how hard this has been to get done. According to the White House, they have “identified nearly 100 measures it has taken to reduce …
Pearl River My mother was from the South. She wasn’t just from the South, she was from the deep South, and for better and for worse, there’s hardly any part of the South deeper than the Mississippi Delta and counties like Sunflower where she was raised. She was smart as a whip, and in …