Alaska’s dental care access changes lives
BY CAPTAIN SHERRY MCWHORTER - Lucas has been down on his luck for quite a while. After the trans-Alaska pipeline was finished, he couldn't find steady work. After the oil crash in 1986, Lucas ended up on the streets.
Down and out in Los Angeles County
With a population of 10 million, a number greater than the population of 42 entire states, Los Angeles County has more high-income families than anywhere in the nation. It also remains the national poverty capital, with the largest number
Reaching the lost in Los Angeles
YOUNG PEOPLE WAIT on the sidewalk outside The Way-In shelter in Hollywood. BY STEVE ALLEN - DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES The gap between the rich and the poor in Los Angeles County is an ever-widening one, and it
The Good Intent
THE BODY BUILDER This was the name of a restaurant that Ivor Bosanko (now Western Territory bandmaster) and I used to frequent once a week when we were fulfilling our mandatory military commitment as musicians in the band of Her Majesty's
FOCUS – Nothing new under the sun?
The new millennium has officially begun, and, just as we learned after last year's Y2K hype, life is pretty much the same. Science and technology have progressed beyond our ancestors' wildest dreams, but steadily so; we do not transport ourselves
On the Corner
BY ROBERT DOCTER - The rheumy eyes seemed on the verge of imminent discharge--without spark, listless, lacking in spirit--within ill-fitting, almost hollow cavities in a tight, hard living face. He stood before me in the partially lit hallway, unkempt, unclean--unloved. Tan
Holiness–to be like Jesus
The tenth article of the doctrines of The Salvation Army reads as follows "We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be wholly sanctified and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless