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BY Rebecca Spiess/arizona pbs | Dec. 6, 2018
Without access to insurance, Dreamer’s hopes for kidney transplant dim
PHOENIX – He holds out his forearm, pointing to an area right below a bandage near the crook of his elbow. One of his veins is much thicker – it looks like a caterpillar under his skin. It’s a fistula serving as the entry port for his hemodialysis treatment.

By REBECCA SPIESS/Post-Gazette | June 15, 2022
Switzerland has lots of guns, but provides no model for America
By Rebecca Spiess/Arizona PBS | Aug. 13, 2018
No More Deaths duels with Border Patrol over water and food drops for migrants
AJO – The projected high for this July day is 105, and hints of the coming heat already glimmer at 6:45 a.m. The old Ram pickup shudders along uneven roads often traveled by Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona. Saguaros dot a desolate landscape.
Paige Corich-Kleim, a volunteer with No More Deaths, drives a truck packed with dozens of 1-gallon jugs of water and pallets of canned refried beans towards the U.S.-Mexico border.



B | feb. 19
German authorities tackle far-right extremism; Jews: ‘What took so long?’
