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".
Marble Falls Every once in a while, someone do you a favor and brings together a mass of cuts and bruises to really show you where all the fatal wounds are. Bob Marshall, an erstwhile reporter, sometime columnist, and all around environmentalist based in New Orleans, did that recently in the Times-Picayune by …
Marble Falls For decades, New Orleanians would nod to each other in the summer, “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” when both would twin together around 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, it’s both, with temperatures that are regularly in the low 90s and can sometimes break 100, something almost unheard of decades ago. …
New Orleans Western North Carolina never expected the aftermath of a hurricane was going to wreak havoc throughout their region and its communities. The night the waters were rising as the rain continued to fall, I was talking a to woman who was the station manager of a small, low-power station in Ashville. …