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".
Blue Mountain, New York There’s something captivating about canoeing. Trust me on this. Paddling on calm water, river or lake, you are inches from the water in the same way that when you drive a motorcycle, you feel as one with the road. Done well, you glide on the water, magically. Admittedly, it’s not …
Adirondacks Reading the papers here and there in our polarized country, I was recently struck by how unimaginatively schoolyard is the discourse. I think it was Louisiana’s own rightwing bat-crazy Congressman Higgins who called for the New Orleans Public Health department to be defunded by the federal and state government based on its …
New Orleans A federal judge in California has finally issued a ruling on the unprecedented deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles. Trump claimed this deployment was necessary because there was an “immigrant invasion.” The judge found no evidence of insurrection. He addressed 1878 Posse Comitatus Act as well and its clarity …