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 There’s nothing good about having your home and neighborhood flooded. It’s critical to know the risks, even if you accept them with your eyes open. In New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina and many before and after that, have taught us lessons in both preparation for disasters, as well as what we might …
New Orleans In the United States, like it or not, we’re on the countdown. The government has been shutdown for weeks, as the polarity between the party’s positions pushes towards a new record for dysfunction. The President is hands-off on a snack tour of the Far East beginning with Japan. There are no …
New Orleans In the US, we’ve had governmental shutdowns over recent years from time to time. Most of them have been relatively short. Services were disrupted. Federal workers were furloughed. When it was over, they received their back pay, and things went back to normal. During the interim, the government often maintained crucial …