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".
Marble Falls I’ve noticed it, and surely you have, too, but social media just isn’t that social anymore. Maybe it’s me, but I don’t think so. Something like Twitter was never a conversation with a community, but more a one-way megaphone, sometimes turned to high volume. Facebook has become more akin to a bulletin …
New Orleans It may be April showers bringing May flowers in the rest of the country, but in New Orleans April is mid-to-late spring with summer starting to crowd into the calendar with early complaints about humidity, temperatures in mid-80s, and air conditioners starting to hum and roar in the background. Morning are mild …
New Orleans My father passed away fifteen years ago this June, but I couldn’t help thinking of the question he would often ask me when I returned from some country not in his own travelogue. He would ask me what to tell him what would interest him from my latest trip. Not having been …