Chaparral, New Mexico – Driving on a weekday morning through this remote enclave of mobile homes, bodegas, squat adobe health clinics and Pentecostal chapels, one wonders: “Where are all the people?”
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Agua4All – Providing access to safe drinking water
Most people in the U.S. today pay little attention to drinking fountains. They’re as ubiquitous as political advertising during election season.
Not enough young aspiring doctors seek a practice in rural communities
By Elizabeth Zach, RCAC Staff Writer Cascades East Family Medicine Center Klamath Falls, Oregon Many doctors have patients they never . . .
Down and out in Sacramento
My brother Joe spent a good two decades homeless on Sacramento’s streets in the 1980s and 90s, overnighting at the American River and pan-handling, getting arrested and jailed. We have the same parents, went to the same private schools and never wanted for anything growing up.
Going it alone, working together: Anita LaRan and a lifetime of service
By Elizabeth Zach, RCAC staff writer Anita LaRan returned to her childhood home in New Mexico’s Mora Valley in 1984, . . .