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 Recently, there was an obit for Jerry Miller, the lead guitarist for the 60s West Coast band, Moby Grape, that had quite a moment during their time. It used to be that there couldn’t have been an article about him or the group without a mention of another band member, Peter Lewis, …
Marble Falls One of the saddest things about contemporary capitalism is that there are constant scams designed to rip-off consumers. The United States has whole agencies that are designed to protect consumers and oversee such shenanigans, like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and that’s a good thing. …
Marble Falls Working with groups that are part of the Anthropocene Alliance the issue of flooding comes up frequently, whether it’s Miami, Oklahoma, Philadelphia, or Jackson, Mississippi. Everyone knows that climate change is real, temperatures are going up, record rains are already here. Water is rising. Areas that always flooded are now flooding more …