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 No one should ever forget that the most stable and sustainable driver of the New Orleans economy is neither tourism nor conventions, but rests in no small measure on the Mississippi River as a port city. Barges of grain and other goods coming down, ships filled with coffee and everything else …
New Orleans Living in New Orleans, we depend on the Mississippi River, and in my case, living only a couple of blocks from the great river in a neighborhood appropriately called Bywater, the river is a neighbor. At between 175 and 200 feet deep at the crescent near me, ocean going ships can …