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 learned a new term to describe my old public high school in talking to Tufts University Professor Natasha Warikoo. It’s not a neighborhood school or a magnet school or even a college-preparatory school, but an “exam” school, meaning of course that it takes passing a test to get through the doors. …
Pearl River When talking about Alex Jones, the hatemonger-in-chief and liar supreme of the Infowars broadcast combine, it’s easy to run out of adjectives that fully describe exactly how miserable a human slug he is. Name a headline-falsehood that has divided the country, and Jones has shouted about it and done his best to …
Pearl River It was painful to read a recent expose about Alabama. The reporter had spent four months getting a handle on how fines and fees finance small town and county governments in the largely rural Black Belt and were sentencing residents into permanent penury. The State of Alabama is no different because of …