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 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 …
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 …