In my memoir “Breaking Barriers: Working and Loving While Blind,” I described how, during the first several days at my first two jobs, I became tense and disconnected while sitting through programs designed to bond me first with a large federal government agency and later with a stodgy bank on Wall Street. During these “onboarding” programs, my fellow new hires and I completed a mind-numbing amount of paperwork and listened to endless presentations about the glories of the organizations from…..
Steve Deace, in his August 31 column, offered to give $100 to the first person who could give him one good reason why it’s “unfair” to require a valid photo ID in order to vote. After all, he argues, people need to provide a photo ID to get a marriage license, claim a prize won during a sports radio contest, cross the border of a foreign country, and at the start of a new job. “Why,” he asks, “should someone…..
Trip Gabriel, in an August 24 article in the New York Times, wrote that the March on Washington’s “program was far more inclusive than five decades ago, with many women,” Latinos, and openly gay men and lesbians serving as speakers. But why didn’t people with disabilities receive more attention?
During the past fifty years, people with disabilities, like other minority groups seeking equal rights, have taken to the streets, forged coalitions with others, and lobbied politicians, resulting in significant legislation……