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 Attending a funeral in an evangelical church recently, I was moved by the ritual of community solidarity in its search for peace and comfort in dealing with grief. Raised as a Lutheran, and long lapsed, over recent decades since our children have grown to be adults, my time in any kind of pew has been …
Marble Falls I stumbled on a surprising item in the Washington Post. A handful of states have carved out exceptions for workers voluntarily leaving their jobs because they are refusing employer compliance with the vaccine mandate. These deep red states want these anti-vax protestors to get unemployment. I could hardly believe my eyes, but seeing is believing as they wrote that … …
Marble Falls Every day the obituary notices record the deaths all around us. During the pandemic sometimes the New Orleans paper would fill three and four pages of these free notices to the community. This week alone the “paper of record” has noted the death of the great religious and inspirational leader and Nobel Prize winner in the …