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".
Queens, New York Bellarose is a small community of hardly 2000 folks at the border of New York City’s Queens Borough and Long Island’s Hempstead County. During World War II it was also next door to Mitchel Field, an Army Air Force training center during the war, named after a former mayor New York …
Brooklyn I don’t do musicals. I’m sure it’s just me, but someone breaking into song, rather than stating their business, just makes no sense. I know people love them, but, please lord, don’t make me go. I’ll listen to mi companera sing “Hair” or “South Pacific” in the car, and I’m OK with that. …
Marble Falls There’s a classic country and western song by David Allen Coe, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name, the Perfect Country and Western Song.” He’s riffing with a buddy about a song he wrote and claims that it was close to the perfect C&W song, but it was missing some …