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 When a company has seen its workers in more than 350 locations vote that they want to be represented by a union, you would normally think that they might have gotten a message that there’s trouble in a whole lot of river cities. Even when the company is huge and supposedly …
New Orleans Another Black Friday has come and gone, or has it? Now, there’s Cyber-Monday, and every kind of small business seems to be jumping on the bandwagon at least pretending there’s a sale on offer. I even read some report about a woman who specialized in finding cheaper prices than Amazon on …
Pearl River I pretty much lower the hip quotient whenever I walk into a room. In the blazing new age of social media, I gave up on keeping up many years ago. Twitter or whatever it’s called now was X’ed out of my life for all practical purposes when I couldn’t keep up with …