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 I looked at the book, Advice to 9th Graders, and shook my head. I was going to have to pass on this one. It was way outside my lane. It was about advice to 9th graders from older teens who were looking back to their bridge from middle school to high school. …
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 …