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 If I’m feeling uneasy, and I’m not the only one, about what politicians and public officials are thinking these days, that’s almost pales compared to what some folks are saying. Social media is generally a hotbed on the cra-cra side of discourse, but most of that is pretty easy to ignore …
New Orleans In what still seems the political “age of Trump,” probably the wrong question to ask, is “what are they thinking?” With misinformation, boundless conspiracies, and many feeling free to talk about scuttling elections and civil war, I’m probably out of line even wondering. Nonetheless, even acknowledging that the American political lists …
Pearl River My handwriting has always been bad, and, to tell the truth, it’s has steadily gotten worse over time. What was sort of rounded in my youth, but at least legible, has become more angular and abbreviated as the years pile up and my hurried writing has, if anything, sped up even more. …