New Orleans For several years now “The Wire” has been the best show on television. The gritty realities of life in Baltimore resonate to anyone working these streets. This year in the final season of the David Simon piece we are watching the continued collapse of institutions without resources: the public sector …
Author: wade
Endymion Parking
New Orleans ACORN bought a new national headquarters on Canal Street, the storied center line between the French Quarter and the CBD (Central Business District). We are twenty-six blocks from the River. From the window in my new office I can see the Superdome and much of downtown. We are hardly moved in on …
The ACORN Vote
New Orleans Yesterday from field reports it seemed the two remaining major candidates on the Democratic Party side were campaigning hard for the “ACORN Vote” and what it represents. This report from Matthew Henderson, ACORN Head Organizer in New Mexico, on an Obama event there: Obama came to Albuquerque today and asked us to …