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 Texas has a reputation as oil country. There aren’t drilling rigs on the state capitol grounds in Austin, like there are in Oklahoma City, but you can find them almost everywhere else. Less well known is that Texas has also been a leader in building alternative energy production and integrating wind …
New Orleans The foundational point undergirding climate change is that temperatures are heating up all over the globe. The impact of this global warming for some communities and even whole island countries could be catastrophic. On many levels, all of us will see these changes in the seasons and our own environments. Bottom …
New Orleans Having a big insurance company, like State Farm, pack up and leave the state is old news in Louisiana. Big companies, little companies, medium-sized companies come and go all the time here. Nonetheless, when State Farm, the largest insurer in California, the most populous of the states in the US and …