New Secretary of State Pledges to Continue his Work on Eliminating Election Day Obstacles for People with Disabilities Ever since the November elections, Mark Ritchie, the newly elected Secretary of…
Day: January 10, 2007
Access Press’ 2006 in Review
Excerpts from Access Press articles from 2006 History happens in small steps. Sometimes we need to take stock of these changes so that we appreciate how far we’ve come—and how…
Student Waxes Poetic - St. Paul Woman Wins Metro State Award
A childhood photo of Mary Bailey Bustos shows a happy-go-lucky kid with a sunny smile. But she garners no warm fuzzies when examining the picture. Fact is, as far as…
Editor's Column - January 2007
The 2007 legislative session has started, and we have many new senators and representatives who need to become aware of disability issues. The Minnesota Consortium for People with Disabilities has…
Letters to the Editor - January 2007
Discrimination, Like Lost Cemeteries, is also Common Dear Editor, I think the reader who stated it is “exaggerating when you view [the loss of a state cemetery] as a slight…
Samuel Gridley Howe
Note: Each month of 2007, Access Press will feature an important person in disability history: local, regional or national. Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876) was involved in many social causes…