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 Criminal justice and penal facilities have become hot button issues with demands ranging across the board from restorative justice to abolition to whether constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment are constantly ignored and racial discrimination is systemic. The politics around these issues have become unpredictable and toxic given the competing …
New Orleans Far-left liberals have taken over the state of Louisiana! Don’t take my word for it. This comes directly from the horse’s mouth in the post-election comments made by Louisiana’s Trump mini-me governor, Jeff Landry. Oh, and billionaire George Soros somehow helped, though it’s a mystery how, but Landry must have wanted …
New Orleans New Orleans and most of south Louisiana has historically been a Catholic Church heartland, large enough to have an archdiocese, seemingly forever, and to make Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, and for a long time, fish on Fridays, something close to local laws. Like so many areas of the United States, the …