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 Everyone everywhere talks about the weather, but in the current global heatwave it’s topic number one in many places. The number of reports about heat are rising faster than the numbers on most thermometers. The eight highest annual temperatures since records have been kept are in the last eight years, for …
Marble Falls When we think of libraries, most of us have a pretty clear picture in our minds. To some it’s a quiet, contemplative space, where often all we can hear is the shuffle of feet from card catalogues, if those still exist, to rows of bookshelves. Maybe we remember having to spend …
Marble Falls No matter where you might stand on the political spectrum, surely, we can agree that Georgia’s Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is way, way out there. She’s been sold on QAnon. In fact, it is unclear if there is any conspiracy theory about the government that she doesn’t embrace. Even if …