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 The editorial page editor of the New York Times has embarked on an interesting strategy in recent years. I’ve made some small comments about this in the past, but the pattern is so unmistakable that this is no longer a matter of coincidence or happenstance, but clearly either an overt editorial strategy …
Quebec City Even as the Brexit landslide seemed to be building in the formerly United Kingdom, the European Union leadership was piecing together an ambitious plan to achieve climate goals by 2050. Their plan was to reach net-zero in carbon emissions at that point in a sweeping economic transition. Some countries like Poland that still …
New Orleans Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed? If you can make it past the daily Trump wailing wall, there’s one report after another of protests. Not some piddling ten- or twenty-person thing, though there’s plenty of that as well, but I’m talking about mass protests, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even …
Gulf Shores, Alabama It’s rained part of every day for two weeks. There is supposed to be a one-day break in New Orleans without any rain. Living in the semi-tropics that passes for normal. I used to say summer in the city was 85 percent humidity and 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, looking at the …
New Orleans We checked the storm reports on Tropical Storm, wannabe hurricane, Barry, constantly as we prepared to leave Milwaukee. We were confident that we could get to Houston, but the last leg into New Orleans, scheduled to land at 9PM, might be a different matter, if winds were rising before landfall. Everything seemed to …