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		<title>US Airways ejects man with wheelchair: &#8216;Too disabled to fly&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/20/too-disabled-to-fly-30340/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ABC News, CNN, Grand Rapids [MI] Press: Johnnie Tuitel, a motivational speaker who uses a wheelchair, says he was forced to leave a recent US Airways flight before takeoff because flight personnel had decided that he was &#8220;too disabled to fly.&#8221; Tuitel, who has cerebral palsy, said the incident occurred last month while he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey: ADA has not improved quality of life</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/29/ada-quality-of-life-29930/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From USA Today: A survey commissioned by the Kessler Foundation/National Organization on Disabilities finds that the ADA has not made meaningful progress in improving the quality of life for people with disabilities. The survey shows that more must be done to help people with disabilities get ahead, said Carol Glazer, president of the National Organization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters say Rochester buses bypass people with wheelchairs</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/19/protesters-say-rochester-buses-bypass-people-with-wheelchairs-29262/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Rochester [NY] Democrat and Chronicle: Dozens of people protested the transportation authority in Rochester, NY, this week for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, saying that transit service buses routinely bypass wheelchair users at stops. &#8220;The drivers either don&#8217;t want to stop and lower the ramp, or the ramps don&#8217;t work,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riders with disabilities claim shoddy transit service in Detroit</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/26/transit-detroit-27303/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Detroit News: Disability rights advocates are threatening to file federal ADA complaints over Detroit&#8217;s para-transit service, saying they regularly encounter unkempt and poorly equipped vans and rude drivers who engage in reckless driving, don&#8217;t show up at the appointed time and place, and drop clients at the wrong addresses. The complaints come as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: People with disabilities left out of disaster planning</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/10/disaster-preparedness-22169/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: According to a report by the National Council on Disability, the federal government still lags in including Americans with disabilities and their advocates in planning for disasters. The report comes four years after hundreds of people with disabilities were stranded in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Thirty-five died when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: Better disability transit services needed</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/06/lexington-transit-21406/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columnist Merlene Davis writes that Lexington, KY, does not provide adequate public transportation services for people with disabilities, with some buses ending services as early as 6 p.m. Two organizations, Project Easy Access Lexington and the Latitude Artist Community, are calling for changes. An excerpt: If President Barack Obama had invited members of the physically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind drivers take the wheel</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/03/blind-drivers-21188/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Hong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post (with video) and ABC News: Technology developed by engineers at Virginia Tech put 20 blind drivers behind the wheel at the summer science academy organized by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). Virginia Tech developed the technology in response to a 2004 challenge from NFB for a vehicle to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit laying off bus aides for kids with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/27/detroit-layoffs-bus-20765/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News: The Detroit school district has announced a plan to lay off 75 percent of the approximately 210 school bus attendants who assist kids with disabilities to and from school, arousing the ire of parents, advocates and labor unions. The cuts, which were part of a budget cutting effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota budget cuts: &#8216;Will disabled be left on curb?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/29/minnesota-transportation-19307/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/29/minnesota-transportation-19307/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Minneapolis-St. Paul] Star Tribune: Eleven Minneapolis-area counties are scrambling to prop up a regional transportation system for people with disabilities after legislators eliminated its roughly $2.5 million funding. The surprise budget cut takes effect July 1. The program had arranged for some 220,000 people to go on an estimated million trips to doctors&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA news probe finds bus drivers endangering wheelchair riders</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/19/transportation-18733/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wheelchair]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Geffen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigation by Los Angeles television station KABC finds widespread evidence that bus drivers are putting the safety of wheelchair riders at risk and violating federal civil rights laws. Part 1: Wheelchairs on buses not always secured (with video) Part 2: Caught on tape: Wheelchair woes on MTA (with video) Part 3: MTA begins using [...]]]></description>
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