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".
Limon, Colorado Driving east to west through Kansas, avoiding the interstates and toll roads, is an interesting roll, that I coupled with a couple of hours on the big highway to get to Limon, the self-proclaimed “hub city,” eighty miles out of Denver and about the same from Colorado Springs. Perhaps hard for some …
Marble Falls We all know McDonalds. It’s a brand known around the world. The company has made so many billions of hamburgers under the golden arches that they no longer build signs that calculate the numbers. Many today likely don’t realize that they ever did. McDonalds is simply a fact of life. …
Marble Falls It’s not exactly one that got away, but it’s definitely one that has kept biting people hard. I’m talking about the ways low-and-moderate income families are forced into alternative financing schemes in order to put a roof over their heads. Several years ago, the ACORN Home Savers Campaign went after a …