Baton Rouge     The highlight tapes for the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans would have Dorothy Stukes giving the survivors platform, Beulah Laboistrie’s closing remarks, walking into Annie Falls’ house in the 9th Ward, one of the members standing up to the architects and volunteering his house for the raising and reconstruction, and a dozen …

Baton Rouge     The session opened with welcome and good manners from the ACORN leaders from New Orleans. Each one said where they lived in New Orleans, identifying their wards and their homes, and then said where they lived now in Baton Rouge, Kenner, New Iberia, Dallas, Little Rock, or Houston. There was good heart to the …

New Orleans     We left LSU’s Cook Center with 2 filled tour buses for the trip to New Orleans. Planners, architects, sociologists, developers, and a number of New Orleans evacuees all plopped into the seats filled with expectations. But even before we crossed into the parish after listening to everyone’s story on the bus, we knew this …