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".
New Orleans I looked at the book, Advice to 9th Graders, and shook my head. I was going to have to pass on this one. It was way outside my lane. It was about advice to 9th graders from older teens who were looking back to their bridge from middle school to high school. …
Marble Falls Affordable housing is a crisis throughout the country. The shortage has meant that housing prices are rising, even as interest rates and some inflation have made them less affordable and reduces sales to record levels. And, as I learned to chant in Glasgow several years ago, Rents Are Bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Developers …
Marble Falls Unions are in the center of the storm these days. Any reflection on 2023 had to include the progress of unions in the highlights for the year, and the attention continues to be focused on what it all might mean now and for the future. In some ways, these seem like …