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 Having a big insurance company, like State Farm, pack up and leave the state is old news in Louisiana. Big companies, little companies, medium-sized companies come and go all the time here. Nonetheless, when State Farm, the largest insurer in California, the most populous of the states in the US and …
New Orleans It’s been a while since we talked about Walmart and that lot. It’s not because they have really gotten kinder and gentler, since they have continued to grow bigger and bigger, it’s just because talking about Walmart seems not to change the way they do business. What’s different now, you might …
Marble Falls There’s a classic country and western song by David Allen Coe, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name, the Perfect Country and Western Song.” He’s riffing with a buddy about a song he wrote and claims that it was close to the perfect C&W song, but it was missing some …