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 This is one of those crimes without criminals. US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision gutting the fifty-year precedent Roe v. Wade allowing women’s right to choose to have an abortion was leaked. Oh my, oh my! In a tither, the Chief Justice, the media, a legion of pundits expresses outrage and …
New Orleans No one can say that the Biden administration is not serious about student debt relief and more equitable access to education. This was all made very clear with his earlier proposal to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student debt, pretty much across the board. That proposal has been stalled in …