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 Over the years, I’ve put a lot of miles on airplanes. About a million and a half on United alone, along with hundreds of thousands on American and Delta, and then a bunch on random carriers around the world. I listen and do what they say, but I also keep my …
Houston – This is somewhere between a shaggy dog story, a tale of internet hell, or black hole politics. The subject is a visa. The country is India. I’ve hinted at this saga before, but now I’ve gone to Houston to grab the bull by the horns, as the locals used to say in Texas. …
Mexico City I could swear that flying into Mexico City for the first time in five or six years that the sky was clearer, but that might have been a mirage. The brown cloud still hovered over the mountain and volcano sites that surround this great, huge city and traps the inversion even on …