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 Living in New Orleans, we depend on the Mississippi River, and in my case, living only a couple of blocks from the great river in a neighborhood appropriately called Bywater, the river is a neighbor. At between 175 and 200 feet deep at the crescent near me, ocean going ships can …
Marble Falls Driving across huge parts of the US South and West I could say gives me time to think, but that’s hardly half of it. Eyes plastered to the road; a driver is overwhelmed by visual overload. As you drive west, your vision expands for miles in all directions. One day I …
North Platte, Nebraska America is a big, big country and the open spaces require a bit of luck to go with navigation via Google and real maps. I started the day outside Greeley, Colorado scouting radio tower locations. With a very early start, I was picking up a small U-Haul trailer in Worland, Wyoming …