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 Louisiana State University Professor Adrienne Katner knows something about water. In fact, as Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Program at the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, let’s face it, she knows a whole lot about water, particularly whether it’s safe to drink, and more specifically, …
Pearl River It was painful to read a recent expose about Alabama. The reporter had spent four months getting a handle on how fines and fees finance small town and county governments in the largely rural Black Belt and were sentencing residents into permanent penury. The State of Alabama is no different because of …
Pearl River For you to understand why House Resolution 127 passed in the recent session of the Louisiana legislature, as submitted by State Representative Matthew Willard, creating the Louisiana Contraflow Task Force is important, you first have to understand what contraflow is and recognize that in a world of potential climate and related disasters, …