Volunteers May be the Only Good Thing to Hit New Orleans after Katrina

a community voice ACORN Louisiana Recovery Rebuild New Orleans WalMart

New Orleans    Opinions are divided on the New Orleans so-called recovery after Hurricane Katrina, and it is more than a glass half-full, half-empty situation. Talking to Vanessa Gueringer on Wade’s World, her articulate anger still rages, and listening to her describe how her community in the lower 9th ward has had to fight to win …

Continue Reading

Thinking about Cascadia on the 10th Anniversary of Katrina

a community voice ACORN Ideas and Issues Louisiana Recovery

New Orleans   As the final countdown begins on the 10th anniversary of the August 29, 2005 landfall of Hurricane Katrina, the devastation it wrought, and the recovery still in progress, A Community Voice, formerly Louisiana ACORN, and an affiliate of ACORN International, held a “Katrina Heroes” event that was quite moving. Members, leaders, friends, …

Continue Reading

Stop the Guerrilla War Against Obamacare, Let My People Live!

a community voice ACORN Health Care National Politics

Little Rock   Being a commuter these days between New Orleans and Little Rock, it is interesting to watch the convolutions that Arkansas and its legislature are going through to try and fashion a partnership with the federal government to run the health care exchange option under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare.  Time is ticking …

Continue Reading