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".
New Orleans Working with Dollar Store Workers United and a study that ACORN and its partners at Georgia State University completed and will release soon, I monitor Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree (which owns Family Dollar) somewhat closely, so of course I read the obituary recently on the passing of Family Dollar’s …
Marble Falls We’re not star struck, but we do notice when someone who is someone in the broader world gives us a shout-out. We were OK with Brad Pitt trying to do something about the lower 9th ward in New Orleans after Katrina. We liked Jack Nicholson, Ryan O’Neil, and Carroll O’Conner, Archie Bunker …
Marble Falls I have been reading about this supposed breakthrough in artificial intelligence, A.I. to the cognoscenti, with something called ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It’s early days, but the reactions have been across the board from open, loving embrace to fears that it is the end of education and learning …