With the regular legislative session over, Minnesota’s disability community is weighing its gains and losses. The regular session gaveled to a close May 18, ending with a fight between Gov. Mark Dayton and legislators over…
Day: June 10, 2015
Nominations are sought for Access Press annual award
Do you know a Minnesotan with disabilities who works tirelessly for the greater community? Can you name an outstanding community group that provides jobs and housing, trains advocates or provides activities for Minnesotans with disabilities?…
Olmstead Plan still needs work
Work on Minnesota’s Olmstead Plan, which outlines service reforms for people with disabilities, has hit a couple of bumps. On May 6 U.S. District Court Judge Donovan Frank said the 158-page plan again failed to meet several of…
Editor's Column - June 2015
We are having what always seems to me as the normal pushing-out of a Minnesota spring: lots of rainy and humid weather interrupted by a day or two of sunny, warm summer. We…
Final push for the ADA took time, political process
At the beginning of the George H. W. Bush presidential administration, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became the charge of disability lobbyists, including Patrisha Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund,…