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 Tulane University, located in New Orleans uptown Garden District, is a source of pride for many. The university is consistently ranked relatively highly by most reporting services. It’s not top tier, Ivy League or Little Ivy, but it’s in the small cohort of excellent private universities in the South. Increasingly, it has …
New Orleans The humorist David Sedaris, writing in a recent number of The New Yorker, spoke whimsically about how his mornings have changed from Trump-Time where he devoured the news and refreshed websites to steel himself against the daily horror to now in Biden-World where he glances at the headlines and has returned …
New Orleans In Covid-country over the last eighteen months, the mascot of the nursing home industry has been the bearded figure of the Grim Reaper, scythe in hand. Almost one-third of the USA coronavirus deaths have been experienced by residents of nursing homes. Not surprisingly, there are calls for reform, but sometimes it is …