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 This isn’t a race among the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, it’s a some kind of a bad survival television reality show. The big difference is that the subtitle on this show would be: Survival of the Unfittest. We’re watching such a downhill slide that we seem to …
New Orleans As the old saying goes, “I don’t want to put my dirty mouth on it.” As mi companera frequently counsels about death and disasters, “don’t open the window,” warning that even the mention or premotion is almost causal. Having driven over 100,000 miles on my truck in hardly four years and, …
New Orleans Downtowns mean something in cities. Mayors can rise or fall on how they handle downtown development, especially if developers are the ones filling up their campaign coffers. Fortunes have been made – or lost – by the owners of giant central business district towers, and their decisions on whether or not …