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 …
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, …
Carlsbad, NM While reading about the cyberattacks, front and center, as well as out of sight, in the terrible Russian invasion of Ukraine as I flew to El Paso, I noticed an interesting piece in a recent Economist entitled “Skywaves and Satellites: Technologies old and new may help keep …