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 Local 100 has conducted an annual leadership training workshop for stewards for more than 40 years, but this year’s session in Little Rock was the first in-person meeting since the pandemic. It was good to see old and new leaders getting to meet each other, often for the first time. Going …
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 …
Little Rock Yes, I know the guest list for Jeff Bezos’ wedding to LA TV host Lauren Sanchez is this weekend has not been published yet, so you’re wondering? Where was your invitation? Were any of us invited? Well, it was probably well-known that Local 100’s Leadership Conference was scheduled for this weekend in …