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 I had the equivalent of one of those Hollywood slap-in-the-face wakeups after giving my son a lift to open up at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse. I was listening to NPR until I could connect to WAMF, and they were running an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, who, among other jobs, most recently served as a special envoy …
New Orleans It’s hard to believe that any of us want to talk about taxes, but it’s hard to avoid the discussion since next to the act of declaring war, they are one of the most powerful forces that governments exert over their citizens. You may think I’m going there because of …
Pearl River Among the many, many myths of capitalism, especially at this late stage, is that shareholders have any real say in the direction of the companies where they hold stock. Called shareholder democracy, it’s anything but. The deck has always been stacked for management and incumbent board members, particularly in the collection of …