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Maggie Dee: Disability Leader Can't Be Kept Down
By Janine Bertram Kemp 
The program, which airs on KUSF 90.3, began as a monthly
broadcast 26 years ago and went weekly in 1998. Along the way, Dee has
interviewed many of the movers and shakers in the disability rights movement,
including Ed Roberts, considered the father of independent living
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Commentary
It's Time for Universal, Affordable Health
Care
By John M. Williams 
I know from personal experience what it is like to pay
seven, eight and nine thousand dollars a year for medical bills because I did
not have health insurance. There were lean years in which I paid more than
$12,000 out of pocket for medical care.
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CLASS Act Seen as One Piece of Reform Puzzle
By Mike Ervin
The July 27th edition of Newsweek magazine featured
an essay by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., titled, “The Cause of My Life:
Inside the Fight for Universal Health Care.”
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full story on the CLASS ACT
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A Tribute
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy: The Voice for the Voiceless is
Stilled
By Patricio Figueroa 
Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (February 22nd,
1932 – August 25th, 2009) was one of the most influential
leaders of our time, and one of the greatest senators in American history.
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the Tribute to Kennedy
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New Initiative: CIL College Studies
By Kathi Wolfe 
Many colleges and universities offer disability studies
courses, but the curriculum the initiative developed for Maryville University
is believed to be the first of its kind, Starkloff said in a lengthy telephone
interview.
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Home and Community Gardens a Growing Trend
By Amy Halloran 
Rising food prices and concerns about food safety have
inspired people to take up a habit fostered by many of our grandparents:
gardening
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Gardens
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Girl Who Doesn't Age May Hold Key to Longevity
Can the condition of a severely disabled girl unlock the
secret of how to delay aging?
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Brooke Greenberg
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Time to Rethink Our Own Declarations of Independence
By William Loughborough 
For the first few years of our lives, all
of us are totally dependent on others for survival. Then, after discovering
that we can survive without a full-time personal attendant -- usually
"Mommy” -- we think that we are fully independent.
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From the Editor
AN INVITATION
By Patricio Figueroa Jr.
We named it Independence Today, more a political
statement than a newspaper name. Since it was my brainchild, I refused to add
any of those “dis” or “able” prefixes. I hate labeling
anything as if it were meant for only one group.
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A New Chapter for Readers with Print Disabilities
By John M. Williams 
In a recent breakthrough for thousands of people with
print disabilities, universities and publishers have agreed to provide digital
books to a World Wide Web-based company's online library.
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Print Disabilities
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Commentary
Mentoring Matches Inspire Success
In the fall of 2007, I became coordinator of the Ohio
Mentoring Project, one of six programs established around the country with the
help of a U.S. Department of Education grant obtained by the National Center on
Mentoring Excellence, a division of the National Federation of the Blind.
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OCD Sufferer Fighting Bad Days with 'Greater Good'
By Kathi Wolfe 
What many of them don’t know is that Bell, like
nearly 2.2 million American adults (according to the National Institute of
Mental Health), has obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mental illness that
wasn’t on the cultural radar screen until a few years ago.
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No Social Security Cost of Living Increase for 2010
The New York Times reported earlier this year that
the lack of a Social Security cost-of-living adjustment in 2010 "will be a
shock to older Americans" and quoted an AARP official lamenting that, "Most
seniors have never been through a year in which there was no Social Security
COLA."
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Social Security COLA
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US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice signs the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities while
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for
Intergovernmental Affairs, looks on.
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