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 I read some of the opinion pieces that rural electric co-op leaders offer their members through their monthly combo-newsletters and ad-sheets. I sometimes find myself scratching my head as I read these editorial-propaganda pieces. I do so not necessarily because of what they are saying, but because of what they are deliberately …
Pearl River – Sometimes what goes around, comes around, and then should be stopped cold and not allowed to move another inch, and I’m talking about the continued environmental and community degradation allowed to persist in Montana and perpetuated by coal and energy companies. Almost fifty years ago, I was sitting in an old, drafty …
From: December 25, 2022 Baja California We knew the weather was going to be bad. As the holidays closed in on us, we were running from the forecasts, not just to Mexico for the first time in four years, but to Baja, where the temperature this time of year in the arid desert between …