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 “Oh, when will they ever learn?” The tag line from the old Pete Seeger rendition of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” locked in my brain, as I read about the campus arrests at Columbia and Yale Universities of pro-Palestinian protestors. I have to wonder who advises these fancy, elite college presidents, …
New Orleans It’s painful to have a backrow seat in the Floridification of Louisiana. After an eight-year interlude with John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in the powerful governor’s posit in Louisiana as an offset to the largely Republican legislature, the election of the far right former Attorney General Jeff Landry as governor, coupled …
New Orleans Part of President Biden’s infrastructure program sought to broaden access to the internet. On one level, it sought to make broadband coverage universal at a cost of over $42 billion. On another level, it sought to enable lower-income families to access the Internet by subsidizing the bills charged by private companies. Most …