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 Reading the polls, one of the takeaways, and it’s a big one, is that for all of the strengths of the economy, many people aren’t feeling it. Inflation in the basic grocery basket and housing costs are the major reasons. Prices are rising more slowly on food items, but rents are still …
Marble Falls Most of us learn early in our lives and work that it’s hard to prove a negative. Interestingly, this is a lesson many on the political right are being forced to quietly learn behind the scenes after having beaten the drums and searched in every dark corner for evidence of elves and …
Marble Falls Living in cities, especially on the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast, and even along the bayous and rivers of the region, we are acclimated to certain patterns of nature. We watch the water rising in the bayou when there are storms in the Gulf. We know how to respond to …