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 It’s painful to have a backrow seat in the Floridification of Louisiana. After an eight-year interlude with John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in the powerful governor’s posit in Louisiana as an offset to the largely Republican legislature, the election of the far right former Attorney General Jeff Landry as governor, coupled …
New Orleans In New Orleans, Lucha, my Australian Shepherd, and I walk to the Mississippi River and back every morning in the predawn. She knows the drill and has her favorites stops along the route where she likes to sniff and piddle, but both of us, now about the same age in dog …
New Orleans Yeah, yeah, Trump is on trial. We all know that. He’s logging another historical marker as the first president to ever face a criminal trial. It’s a hometown crowd for him, but a place where he won’t find as many friendly faces in the jury from a pool of his neighbors …