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".
San Francisco One of the major, underestimated values of consistent work by community organizations is the pure and simple importance of persistence. When I got the text from my son via his Apple news alert, I contained myself until I found the confirmation in the Washington Post. It was true, after more than …
San Jose Talking about my planned visits to some of the California cities where we had assisted communities in applying for low power FM radio stations, my friends could only shake their heads. There was unanimous consensus that this was a crazy idea, with too much driving and traffic that would kill the best made …
San Francisco No question that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have made a ton of money from their various businesses. Both go up and down on the list of richest people in the world, sometime first, but always in the conversation with a gazillion billions each. But, as the song goes, “money …