Printed below, just as submitted, is each candidate’s response to this prompt: “We’d like you to pretend you are giving a speech to voters with disabilities metropolitan and outstate, advocate…
Month: September 2002
Editor's Column - September 2002
On the front page, we gave each candidate for U.S. Senate the opportunity to speak out on the disability-related issues of concern to him. Did each of them address the…
2002 Reader Survey Summary and Highlights
[Note: Due to our deadline, this tally only reflects information from surveys received on or before September 30. However, feedback received after that will still be given careful attention.] Last…
This Isn't Your Grandma's Botox
My doctor told my family and me that recovery from the traumatic brain injury I’d endured would have a window of about five years, after which I would just plateau…
Judith Heumann's Message
It was a thrill to meet Dr. Judith E. Heumann. I can think of nobody more fitting to give the keynote address at the local Rights and Responsibilities Conference marking…
Names and Words Can Hurt My Nerves, But Stones Will Never Harm Me
The famous defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, when admonished by a judge for using profanity replied: “Forgive me, your Honor, but I don’t swear just for the hell of it. But…