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 Despite the daily Chief Organizer’s Report and the Peoples’ Daily News, I carry around some random items that aren’t enough for a full report and don’t fit well anywhere, but at the same time seem worth sharing, even if not quite priceless. Today, here are some examples of such odds and …
Marble Falls For all the signs of increasing resistance and chronic failures of the new Trump administration, there’s a problem that is impossible to ignore: Trump’s threats and bullying in many cases is actually working. In one case after another, there are huge blinking stop signs on fundamental activities and organizations because of …
New Orleans New Orleans and most of south Louisiana has historically been a Catholic Church heartland, large enough to have an archdiocese, seemingly forever, and to make Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, and for a long time, fish on Fridays, something close to local laws. Like so many areas of the United States, the …