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".
Resilience and Disaster Rebuilding Boston If life is about learning, I was doing a lot of it yesterday as part of a panel on community building and sustainability at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It was a clear day and the view from the point where this commuter campus was constructed on out …
Ottawa There are some times when it seems there is nothing one can really say that seems right exactly, and the sudden, terrible and hard fall of former Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate, and more recently Presidential candidate, John Edwards, seems just such a situation. Walking through the building in the few days I was in …
New Orleans A friend sent me an interesting report done by the Laborers’ International Union called “The Ticking Time Bomb: Adjustable Rate Mortgages and Depreciating Home Values in New Subdivisions.” Our old comrade and colleague, Jordan Ash, seemed to be the principal author of the report, and we were curious how he had been …