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".
Pearl River In typical fashion, James O’Keefe’s rightwing fake news operation, Project Veritas, couldn’t get it right. The old line is that “rats flee a sinking ship.” As Project Veritas went down, under the weight of O’Keefe’s many scandals, lawsuits, extravagant and entitled spending, and general narcissism, to right the ship, rather than recruit …
Marble Falls When we think of libraries, most of us have a pretty clear picture in our minds. To some it’s a quiet, contemplative space, where often all we can hear is the shuffle of feet from card catalogues, if those still exist, to rows of bookshelves. Maybe we remember having to spend …
Marble Falls Recently at a KABF board meeting, one of our longtime board members, a showrunner for one show, and a co-host of another wanted to give us a heads-up about underwriting for one of the shows. He said it was getting harder to sign up the original nonprofit groups, each of which he …