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 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 …
Marble Falls Vacation is a good time to try and do some reading. I don’t say catch-up with my reading, because there’s no such thing. We’re always reading. There’s always more to read. Reading almost defines the Sisyphean project of constantly pushing up the hill and never getting there. I’m actually good with that. It’s the journey more than the destination that …
Marble Falls This is a season that just keeps on giving. Not the least of the gifts is irony. I say this as I read the latest protest in the current saga of James O’Keefe, rightwing saboteur, convict, and serial scammer, and his misnamed Project Veritas versus the New York Times. Here’s the deal. The Times was sued by O’Keefe’s Project Veritas …