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Jerry Brown For Governor: My Take

This week it wasn’t much of a sur­prise when Attor­ney Gen­eral Jerry Brown declared he was run­ning for Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia once again.  You can reach his cam­paign web­page here.

The announce­ment had been expected for some time.  There are no other polit­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­dates run­ning.   (The web­site Politics1 cur­rently lists three oth­ers: retired businessman, […]

California

Making a Difference, Kiwanis and Special Games

It’s all about the kids

Fri­day, May 21, 2010, will be the 32nd edi­tion of the Kiwa­nis Spe­cial Games.  The Games are per­haps the Los Altos Kiwa­nis Club’s most impor­tant com­mu­nity ser­vice project.

Estab­lished by the Los Altos Kiwa­nis Club, the games are now pro­duced by all of the Kiwa­nis Clubs of  Kiwa­nis Divi­sion 34.  Well over 900 […]

California Politics

Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind Introduced

National Fed­er­a­tion of the Blind Applauds Mea­sure To Ensure Blind Peo­ple Equal Access to Technology

Wash­ing­ton, DC (Jan­u­ary 27, 2010): Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today intro­duced the Tech­nol­ogy Bill of Rights for the Blind (H.R. 4533), which will man­date that all con­sumer elec­tron­ics, home appli­ances, kiosks, and elec­tronic office tech­nol­ogy pro­vide user inter­faces that are accessible […]

California Politics

I Cannot Say It Better

Clin­ton Turned Right in ’96 Speech, While Obama Plowed Ahead — NYTimes​.com

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Some­times, when I’m search­ing for the right words to express all my feel­ings about the cur­rent state of affairs, I get slapped in the head with some­thing writ­ten by some­one else who does it much bet­ter than I would have.

This can be very frus­trat­ing.  Particularly […]

California

Oakland Settlement Includes People With Disabilities In Disaster Planning

News from the City of Oak­land and the CDR Member’s Exchange

OAKLAND, Calif. – In a set­tle­ment announced Jan­u­ary 21, 2010, by Dis­abil­ity Rights Advo­cates (DRA) and the City of Oak­land, Oak­land has agreed to adopt an emer­gency plan which incor­po­rates the needs of peo­ple with all types of disabilities.

His­tory and Need

The suit […]

California

Prop 8 Trial Started Today!

In my life I’ve had many spe­cial friends who are gay or les­bian.  So has my wife, Donna.   These friends are all hon­est, hard-working peo­ple, many of whom have raised or are rais­ing happy fam­i­lies.  Many have made impor­tant con­tri­bu­tions to advanc­ing and sup­port­ing the human and civil rights of all peo­ple, includ­ing peo­ple with […]

California

Latest Disability Issues News

As much as I might like to I don’t have the resources to keep read­ers up-to-date on all the impor­tant issues impact­ing Cal­i­for­ni­ans with dis­abil­i­ties. I can only tell you about some of those issues from time to time. Fol­low­ing are two bet­ter and timely […]

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