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 When we talk about a “learning curve,” we sometimes forget how easy it is to careen over the edge and crash into the ravine below. Even beaten and bruised, surviving is its own token of success. In this case, I’m talking about the process of putting a radio station on the …
Little Rock Exhausted after a long day, I fell asleep on children’s time, which wasn’t terrible, since my watch gave me my highest sleep score ever at 70. I can remember one weird dream before waking. I got a call, bizarrely, from the EPI, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, telling me to click on …
New Orleans The standard line for dealing with a bully is a weird psychodrama where we assume they are really insecure cowards and our course of action is to stand up to them and slap back. With or without empirical evidence, that’s the advice we have often taken to heart personally and advised …