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".
Marble Falls For decades, New Orleanians would nod to each other in the summer, “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” when both would twin together around 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, it’s both, with temperatures that are regularly in the low 90s and can sometimes break 100, something almost unheard of decades ago. …
Little Rock Northwest Arkansas is a curious contradiction. Fifty years ago, it was an outlier in the state. Sure, the big university was in Fayetteville up there, but to get there meant leaving the interstate near Fort Smith and hoping you weren’t caught on the pig trails going north behind an 18-wheeler with feathers …
New Orleans No one should ever forget that the most stable and sustainable driver of the New Orleans economy is neither tourism nor conventions, but rests in no small measure on the Mississippi River as a port city. Barges of grain and other goods coming down, ships filled with coffee and everything else …