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 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 …
Pearl River Summer and beaches are almost synonymous in many parts of the world. The idyllic days with your feet in the sand, following crab tracks, walking in the waves at waters’ edge, as the sea birds hop away or soar overhead; it’s hard to beat. All of that is true, even as I …