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 I’d like to believe that the death dealing and death defying career of Wayne LaPierre as chief lobbyist and promotor of the gunsels of America is finally over with his pre-trial resignation, but I’m not sure and don’t want to suffer from premature certainty. His last statement seems more a threat …
New Orleans Aqua vita – Water is Life, was on posters everywhere in Peru, years ago when I last visited. Returning from Mexico, I couldn’t help thinking that there was still something off in the 21st century that it was still not safe drink the water. No matter what you might think, Mexico …
Mexico City For the second straight year, we were stranded by Mexican domestic airlines. This year it was Aeromexico, who canceled our early morning flight out of Puerto Escondido, so that we would miss our United connection to Houston and then home. Whether travel for work or a hybrid worcation or whatever, you have …