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Kathy Podgers—a former candidate for City Council and a frequent commenter on the rights of persons with disabilities during council meetings—said that she did not think that the measure went far enough...
...City Council adopted a measure at last night’s weekly meeting that incorporates provisions from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into the Cambridge Municipal Code. The ordinance requires the removal of small architectural barriers that prevent people with disabilities from accessing businesses and public buildings...
...unaware. When a cursory search of Facebook revealed over 500 separate awareness events in the coming week alone, I was reduced to a quivering wreck. I had no idea about Canadian Landmines or International Plankton. Ignorance had been bliss. Awareness was torment. I nearly sent Undergraduate Council President Matt L. Sundquist ’09 a detailed letter about my mental state. Until last week, I hadn’t been aware I could do that. I guess we are making progress...
Last August, at the end of a sticky Iowa day, Barack Obama addressed the Hawkeye Labor Council at its annual dinner outside Cedar Rapids. The applause at his entrance was on par with that given to Hillary Clinton, who spoke just before him, but noticeably less enthusiastic than the welcome bestowed on John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich. Then, five minutes into his speech, a man in the audience gave Obama a very different kind of welcome, shouting at him, "You've never worked a day in your life...
...consternation, you may ask? Isn't that the nature of most legislative processes in democracies? As with anything in Iraq, there was a lot more to this veto than a quibble about constitutional law. The dissenting vote on the Presidential Council was cast by Vice President Adel Abdul-Medhi whose Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) is the Shi'a power bloc with relatively closer ties to the U.S. than the rival party run by Shi'ite strongman Moqtada al-Sadr, who leads the contentious, trigger-happy Mahdi Army. Abdul-Medhi said that the Provincial Powers law contravened the constitutional right...