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 Watching the shake and bake in the wake of the election reminds me of a universal law of looking at money, I learned as an organizer working for ACORN and presenting budgets, expenses, and audits to the board over the years. The questions from people were rarely about the big items like …
Marble Falls Exhausted from a long drive, sitting next to mi companera for assistance, I set about trying to join Bluesky with mixed feelings. I’m not really a Twitter X guy. Yeah, in automation mode, ACORN’s comms guy shares the Chief Organizer’s Report on that platform, but at a personal level I dropped …
New Orleans Jet-lagged or not, my son and I dragged ourselves down to the Smoothie King Arena to see an NBA game between our New Orleans Pelicans and the legendary Golden State Warriors, formerly from Oakland, and now San Francisco in the Mission Bay Area. The NBA has a newish marketing and promo …