Marble Falls Sometimes it feels funny to be back in Arkansas. I lived here from June 1970, when I was coming from a stint in Massachusetts with the National Welfare Rights Organization to found ACORN, and lived in Little Rock until 1978, when we moved the national office to New Orleans. I was …
No Limits to Wild Excess
Marble Falls Admittedly, President Trump is committed to expanding his power exponentially without any regard to the ostensible limits of democratic practice and institutions. His capacity for arbitrary and unilateral dictates is unrivaled, with fresh examples almost daily, whether cloaked in executive orders or delivered when hurling firings like fastballs at the head. …
Heat is Hurting Workers
Marble Falls Facebook showed me a picture from seven years ago on this date, in the way they do, when we were moving our post-Katrina, Airstream “land yacht” from Rock Creek, Wyoming, to Manderson, Wyoming, going south. I’m not there now, but in the Ozarks. My computer tells me it’s already 85 degrees …