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".
Pearl River This has been one of those monster cold fronts that everyone around the world knows about. A brother in Quito, asked me about how New Orleans was making it. As just one example, our Little Rock office has been essentially closed all week, and there have hardly been a half-dozen live shows …
Mexico City For the second straight year, we were stranded by Mexican domestic airlines. This year it was Aeromexico, who canceled our early morning flight out of Puerto Escondido, so that we would miss our United connection to Houston and then home. Whether travel for work or a hybrid worcation or whatever, you have …
Puerto Escondido Almost a year ago, we ended the year watching the whales off the coast of Baja California on a boat out of Cabo San Lucas. What a great Christmas present. Now in Oaxaca at Puerto Escondido, how could we bring in the new year and top that? How about leaving at dawn …