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 It’s interesting to see how data centers have jumped from a local issue in some communities concerned about energy shortages, costs, pollution, and water to a national issue that bundles all of this into a package along with antipathy to artificial intelligence, our tech overlords, and even the current administration. While …
New Orleans Trump’s Iranian war yo-yo continues to move up and down. Iran hunkered down. The Hormuz Strait still closed and others endangered. Oil back up again to $90 a barrel for Brent Crude. The stalemate continues, the bad news pours like rain. But, wait, there’s good news in some of the unintended …
Pearl River 2022 wasn’t so long ago that we can’t remember it. The oil shock that brutalized the world economy then came from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The reverberations were everywhere, but the impact on Europe was the worse, because they relied on Russian imported oil. While they weaned off, they were basically financing …