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".
April 22, 2021 New Orleans I read the headlines in the local paper quickly today. The Pelicans are still having problems: the search for bodies from a downed Gulf workboat came up with one more. A teacher was accused of grooming young girls and raping one at Lusher Middle School in Uptown near the riverbend. …
New Orleans New York is making a horse’s butt of itself. A woman, named Kat Sullivan, put up a billboard last year in Troy, New York, near where she went to school in the 1990s at the private Emma Willard School there. She put up others last year in Massachusetts and Connecticut. She also hired …