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 As my companera says, “Getting old? That’s the goal!” Indeed, it is, but as anyone with serious time of the clock will admit, it comes with a price, even in the best of situations. You lose a step. Names are no longer on instant recall. The gym can’t make ice cream …
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 We all know McDonalds. It’s a brand known around the world. The company has made so many billions of hamburgers under the golden arches that they no longer build signs that calculate the numbers. Many today likely don’t realize that they ever did. McDonalds is simply a fact of life. …