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".
Cimarron The first time I was in Cimarron, New Mexico, was about sixty years ago. I was a 13-year-old Boy Scout, pushing 14, which was the age limit then for attending Philmont, the national scout camp. I have no idea what the experience would be like now, but then you hiked with a heavy …
Santa Fe The electoral map for the midterm elections this November based on the 2020 census is still unsettled and contentious. The New York Times recently weighted in that despite all of the sound and fury, the national map was still about what and what for each major party with no real difference …
Roswell Driving around Eddy County in southeastern New Mexico, I was looking for something we could use as a tower to mount an antenna for KEDR-FM around Loving, less than a dozen miles south of Carlsbad. My little rental car, some kind of hybrid thing from Ford, but 4WD and fine for my purposes, …