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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09012020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Bjorn Skogquist was a former mayor of one of the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburbs some fifteen miles away, when he was a young man. He did a couple of terms and went on with his life. That didn’t mean he no longer paid attention. Watching …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08312020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts\New Orleans Finally, one of the deep, dark secrets of home ownership and home buying is coming to light – the mysterious, highly subjective, largely unregulated world of real estate appraisers. For those lucky enough to own a home, whining about appraisals and in fact arguing …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River In a week when double-barreled hurricanes, Marcos and Laura, threatened the Louisiana coast, the fifteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans and parts of the Mississippi Gulf Coast are easy to forget. Remembrances are small and solemn, as people still crouch …