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 Anthropocene is one of those hard words to get your mouth wrapped around at first, as you have flashbacks to high school science classes, but it’s one we’re all going learn to say, happily or not. In short, it’s the name for our epoch, when humans rule the world, arguably without much …
Marble Falls Whoops, we must have kicked a hornet’s nest. Seems like there’s a wakeup call moving around the backwoods and country roads that’s starting to be heard all over. Some people are demanding that rural electric cooperatives pay more attention to where they source their power, whether they determine their rates in …
Marble Falls I can already hear the squealing even more than a thousand miles from Washington, DC. Despite a miraculous pandemic recovery in many areas, especially jobs, there will be some redcoats jumping up and down about fraud connected to the bailout through the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) and other programs. I quickly …