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 Sometimes it feels funny to be back in Arkansas. I lived here from June 1970, when I was coming from a stint in Massachusetts with the National Welfare Rights Organization to found ACORN, and lived in Little Rock until 1978, when we moved the national office to New Orleans. I was …
Marble Falls Facebook showed me a picture from seven years ago on this date, in the way they do, when we were moving our post-Katrina, Airstream “land yacht” from Rock Creek, Wyoming, to Manderson, Wyoming, going south. I’m not there now, but in the Ozarks. My computer tells me it’s already 85 degrees …
Marble Falls The Texas legislature is famously hyper partisan now and attracting attention nationally for its efforts to gerrymander some additional congressional districts to help Republicans maintain control of the US House of Representatives. Democrats have threatened to walk out on the effort, but it’s almost a symbolic protest. Several states in the …