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 What’s the old saying? An enemy of my enemy is my friend. Something like that, I think. All of which made reading some parts of a piece on Lauren Windsor’s almost one-woman campaign to pop James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas and zing conservative Republicans a guilty pleasure. It seems that Windsor …
New Orleans Doing this report with one finger and that pretty much sucks, but your correspondent continues to do fieldwork from the healthcare front, but I’ll keep it short if I can. As we’ve discussed in the past, our organizations have been doing research on hospitals for the past number of years. After bring phenomenally lucky, I …
New Orleans Five weeks after Hurricane Ida hit the city on the anniversary of Katrina’s arrival, August 29th, we are still in recovery, though we have made progress. Elections were postponed, but they are coming in another month or so. Garbage is starting to be picked up. Branches and other trash may …