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 The Hippocratic Oath, which is allegedly the touchstone for all doctors, says, “Do No Harm.” Seems straight forward enough. Yet, we read more and more a litany of issues where the opposite seems to be happening. Furthermore, financial gain, rather than healthcare or medical ethics, seems to be driving the problem. …
Marble Falls We’ve done study after study of nonprofit hospitals, particularly on the question of their charitable status. Benefiting from a tax-exemption, they are required to be charitable. A condition of the amendments upon the passage of the Affordable Care Act more than a decade ago insisted that if they were not significantly and …