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".
July 5, 2021 Pearl River I’ve probably got a hundred pictures of Jim Fleischmann from scores of visits in Montana, but all of them are on a hard drive that I can’t access easily on this computer. There’s one though that I keep by my desk in my office and my house from thirty years …
July 7, 2021 New Orleans Yes, the headline in an opinion editorial in Scientific American couldn’t have been clearer in its look at nursing home and similar care in the USA, saying “Long-Term Care is Broken.” In the shadow of the pandemic, it’s almost impossible to disagree, but what is being done about it …
July 6, 2021 New Orleans President Biden has said that we are around the corner on the pandemic. Lordy, we all hope so, but given what we have all been through it’s hard to ignore discordant voices and the hard facts in front of us. Some people close to the public health community are …