New Orleans ACORN leader, Joe Sherman, has been a rock in the rebuilding of the upper Carrollton neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. Flooding from the 17th Street Canal inundated the area along with the Lakeview neighborhood, Hollygrove, and many others on the western side of the city. Many repairs have been made on the …
Category: Personal Writings
Rocky Road Home
New Orleans Coming from the airport in the rain, I was surprised to see the crowd on the office porch and the live TV trucks with their 50 foot high antennas parked in the neutral ground in front of the office. I wondered if I would be able to get into my office because my …
Cricket Bonanza
Toronto The ACORN Canada board was a good humored session from front to back. Several of the leaders from British Columbia even developed a comedy routine of sorts parroting the Toronto Dominion spokesperson by from time to time in different discussions raising their right hands in the air and saying, “…but it’s legal!” In …