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 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 …
New Orleans Ross Douthat, the conservative and religion columnist for the New York Times supports the right’s dismantling of the “cathedral” controlled by the left-liberal establishment, but worries that its extremism in the cultural wars will not create a reasonable balance, but simply an equal reaction to its action, changing nothing. Interesting, right? …
New Orleans If any of us ever believed that when billionaires and their like buy media properties, no matter how prominent and well-regarded, and claim that they are doing so as a public and community service, and will absolutely and faithfully allow them to maintain their editorial independence, it’s past time for me …