New Orleans In The Battle for the Ninth Ward: ACORN, The Rebuilding of New Orleans, and the Lessons of Disaster, published last year, I had added the Lessons appendix as more and more community-based organizations sought to meet the challenges of the unexpected natural disasters that are cropping up all around us, whether in the …
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Why are NYC Hedge Funders and Rupert Murdoch messing in a NOLA School Board Race?
New Orleans In the days when New Orleans had a daily paper, it might have been a big issue that hundreds of thousands of dollars in out of state money has flooded one particular school board race. Perhaps not, because those were also the days before Katrina when 100% of the schools in New Orleans …
“Picking Up ACORN’s Pieces:” The Voter Registration Deficiency
New Orleans Rob “Biko” Baker, the executive director of the League of Young Voters, wrote an interesting story in the Summer 2012 issue of Shelterforce daring to state plainly what has been obvious to virtually everyone concerned and biting their fingernails as the USA Election Day looms before us. His article, entitled “Picking up ACORN’s …