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Holiday Wish Lists 2006
Give 'til it helps: Part 2
"...70-plus volunteers to work with our younger disabled clients..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Features Feature

Holiday Wish Lists 2006
Give 'til it helps: Part 1
"...Ruth Speakerman, and Richard Whittaker ADAPT OF TEXAS (AMERICAN DISABLED FOR ATTENDANT PROGRAMS TODAY)..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Features Feature

Time for Regular Publication of Collision Data
"...collisions? Far more pedestrians than bicyclists are killed or disabled by cars. Since very little of this violence is..."

Nov. 16, 2006 Postmarks

Injunction Against Abbott Lifted
"...state's overly broad criminalization of conduct intended to assist disabled voters and its resulting disqualification of disabled voters' mail-in..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Post by Lee Nichols

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Brou v. FEMA, filed in February on behalf of disabled Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees in an effort to..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature

After the Storm
Austin's Louisiana exiles remain suspended between before and after
"...Wallace and her husband are both disabled – she has a heart condition and is obese,..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...27, it's one day after a historic occasion for disabled Americans: July 26 marks the 26th anniversary of the..."

July 28, 2006 News Feature

Medicare D Completely Broken
"...plan scam is the virtual abandonment of the low-income disabled, the dual enrollees. These people have difficult lives to..."

July 19, 2006 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.
"...Stamps, Medicaid, CHIP, and services for the elderly and disabled. While IEES is currently only a pilot project in..."

July 14, 2006 Column

Food-o-File
Austin loses a leading foodie, at least for a while; plus, the French rule
"...and jellies, but the freak power outage this spring disabled my refrigerator, and I lost it all. I know..."

July 14, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

IEES Rollout Caused Problems; CHIP Help Available
"...Stamps, Medicaid, CHIP, and services for the elderly and disabled. While IEES is currently only a pilot project in..."

July 10, 2006 Postmarks

Section 8 Wait List Opening Soon
Housing Authority of Austin's wait list open July 11-13, 2006[*NOTE]
"...that will be on their Section 8 application." The disabled and those 62 and older can apply by phone..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature

The Lame, the Halt, and the Parking Thieves
Crusading against handicapped-parking violators
"...much of their own Kool-Aid – that it's physically disabled them? Perhaps – but Constable Elfant has another theory...."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

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Our readers talk back.
"...Capital Metro's moves to cut service to the disabled community is immoral. Their rationale – that it is..."

June 9, 2006 Column

The Common Law
Protesting High Property Taxes
"...the appraisal district deny a relevant exemption (homestead exemption, disabled veteran exemption, etc)?..."

June 9, 2006 Column by Luke Ellis

Fare Fight
The pending sale of Roy's Taxi company raises a host of Austin memories
"...fares, and Capital Metro-financed Special Transit Service fees for disabled passengers). But her greatest expense, unsurprisingly, is gas. Nwoko..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Don't Cut Services
"...Editor, Capital Metro's moves to cut service to the disabled community is immoral. Their rationale – that it is..."

June 6, 2006 Postmarks

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...to "float" property-tax relief for those seniors and the disabled who already are under a tax freeze. The proposal,..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature

Special Transit Users Fear Cap Metro Cutbacks
Transportation agency wants to tighten eligibility; advocates for disabled worry that vital services will be slashed
"...funding must make reasonable accommodations for the blind and disabled that live within the agency's transit corridors. That could..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...freeways to quickly and efficiently haul away wrecked or disabled vehicles. In the age of technology – with real-time..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature

On the Lege
Lawmakers accomplish what they failed to do so many times – approve a new education funding package that doesn't look half bad on paper
"...two weeks ago that would have given seniors and disabled Texans some added property tax relief, the amendment suffered..."

May 19, 2006 News Column by Amy Smith

Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
"...agency's Special Transit Service, which serves the blind and disabled in Austin. Under the proposal being considered, qualifying for..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature

Cycle Advocates Should Be Cautious of Sanctimonious Elitism
"...the mythical car-free Austin are the elderly and the disabled? Who's going to pay for all those fast-as-a-bicycle power..."

May 5, 2006 Postmarks

Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
"...of persons living in Louisiana who are elderly or disabled." Call the center at 800/960-7705, or Louisiana Medicaid at..."

May 5, 2006 News Feature

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...cities as models for designing programs and services with disabled citizens in mind. This year Cambridge got top honors,..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature

Don't Fear the Interface
Web designers are wielding the coolest new tools for the greater good
"...focus on making the Web more accessible for the disabled. How do design and social responsibility intersect?..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Making the Energy Grid Smarter
New nonprofit pushes energy providers for efficiency via high tech
"...that raises concerns over the safety of elderly or disabled residents, she said. "The focus should be on making..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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Our readers talk back.
"...should shoot off a toe and become IV-F (physically disabled) or see a psychiatrist and be declared too crazy..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Column

Remembering Jerry Lynn Williams
"...should shoot off a toe and become IV-F (physically disabled) or see a psychiatrist and be declared too crazy..."

Feb. 1, 2006 Postmarks

Capital Metro Strike Possibility Throws Parents of Disabled Children Into Total Panic

Jan. 31, 2006 Postmarks

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