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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKansas City Flying in and out of the Kansas City International airport is like a snapshot back in another time, more specifically a time when automobiles and the convenience of local customers dominated planning and performance. Airports, and some train stations like the new ones in …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKansas City I can still remember my third grade teacher walking us through the duck-and-cover exercise and announcing as we prepared to march to the corner single file that she would be standing on the asphalt covered playground where she intended to mark an X, because …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A reporter, Jed Kolko, with the New York Times seems to be connecting the dots in an interesting and important way. In a recent article about some of the unintended consequences of geographic inequality being concentrated in certain cities, he pointed out several things. …