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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".

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Regulations, Contractors, and the Gulf Oil Spill

Ideas and Issues January 12, 2011 by wade

New Orleans The wave of news comments was provoked by the release of an almost 400 page report by the National Oil Spill Commission in Washington head by former Florida Senator and Governor Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly during Republican administrations.  In the inimitable words of Aaron Viles of Gulf …

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Why So Little Change Won from BP Gulf Crisis?

Ideas and Issues Louisiana Recovery July 19, 2010July 19, 2010 by wade

New Orleans Fingers are crossed, breath held, and hopes soaring that finally there may be an interim fix on the British Petroleum BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  An article by David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post yesterday asked in a timely fashion why this oil crisis has not …

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Put a Cap on Well Hell!

Ideas and Issues Louisiana Recovery July 13, 2010 by wade

Atlanta Man, I hope this works!  I don’t want another couple of months of oil in the Gulf of Mexico while relief wells are dug.  The Wall Street Journal wrote optimistically this morning that the “new” sealing cap could finally the lifesaver, and I really, really want to believe them.  The New York Times pulling …

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