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".
Pearl River We got confirmation that the porch light is back on at our house in New Orleans. Unfortunately, the router seems to have fried, so no internet, making the glass less than full. Fair Grinds Coffeehouse reopened this morning, ready for business, but possibly more ready than the neighborhood, since people are still …
New Orleans Tulane University, located in New Orleans uptown Garden District, is a source of pride for many. The university is consistently ranked relatively highly by most reporting services. It’s not top tier, Ivy League or Little Ivy, but it’s in the small cohort of excellent private universities in the South. Increasingly, it has …
New Orleans Another last-minute move by President Biden and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has ordered a suspension of evictions for another sixty days in a Hail Mary pass after time had run out on the last moratorium. This one relies on equating housing with public health under the strain of the …
August 1, 2021 New Orleans Look, I might be old as dirt, but I’m in good shape and with good genes and even better luck have been wildly healthy all my life. Yeah, I have a bum knee from high school football and right this minute a swollen foot from a copperhead bite, …
July 25, 2021 Pearl River In the polarizing struggle over Covid-19 and lifesaving vaccinations, the repeated call has been to “listen to the science.” The same cry is heard about climate change and global warming. People obviously decide when and where to listen. Maybe rather than debating about this person’s view or the other, …