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Category Archives: power wheelchairs
From Upstate Medical Center to Frank Kobliski
Taxpayer’s alert: Michael Abbot, auditor for the State University of New York, states that when he got a complaint that Upstate Medical Center’s $50 million Institute for Human Performance had been sitting two-thirds empty since its construction in 2000, he … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation
Tagged Betty Petrie, Call-a-Bus, Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, Centro, citizen, CNYRTA, disability, Federal Transit Administration, Frank Kobliski, FTA, Institute for Human Performance, Linda McKeown, Michael Abbot, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, SUNY auditor, transportation, Upstate Medical Center
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Calling Washington
What Sally Johnston did was create a program whereby the client, i.e., the competent citizen, would hire, train, schedule and supervise the aide. The program would be embedded in an Independent Living Organization, such as ARISE, which would do the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation
Tagged advocacy, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, CDPAP, Centro, citizen, consumer directed personal assistant program, Enable, Frank Kobliski, Linda McKeown, paratransit, Sally Johnston, Sara Wall Bollinger, success, transportation
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From Politics to Sally Johnston
This brings us to the question of politics. According to Wikipedia, “Politics (from Greek politikos ‘of, for, or relating to citizens’) is the art or science of influencing people on a civic, or individual level, when there are more than 2 people … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness
Tagged advocacy, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Centro, David Knight, politics, Sally Johnston, Tom McKeown
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Annie Enters Politics
So Peter Cahan and I sat in the office of Beata Karpinska, ARISE’s director of advocacy, and had this conference call with attorney David Knight in the Federal Transit Administration’s Office of Civil Rights. I told David story after story of … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation, Values
Tagged ADA, advocacy, Americans with Disabilities Act, ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Centro, David Knight, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, governing, government, Linda McKeown, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Peter Cahan, politics
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From God to Linda McKeown–There’s a Trip
How do I know that God’s got my back? The first and biggest confirmation of this came about three years after I was diagnosed with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, which is a rare form of kidney damage that is caused by bad doctors … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Onondaga County, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Transportation, Values
Tagged lithium, power, God, paratransit, powerlessness, Centro, Call-a-Bus, transportation, FTA, Office of Civil Rights, power wheelchair, Federal Transit Administration, citizen, complaints, Linda McKeown, OCR, CAB, Bus, Jenifer Rich, Peter Cahan
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Some of Us Don’t Even Have Feet
Letter to the Editor, Post-Standard (continued) Do you know who comes to the [Public Transportation Advisory Committee] meeting? Linda McKeown, director of Call-a-Bus. Fifteen disabled people sit there and try to make some sense out of the system, and Linda … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Transportation, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Call-a-Bus, Centro, disability, Linda McKeown, paratransit, Post-Standard, transportation
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I Am Her Job
Continuation of letter to Centro Operations Director: I repeatedly asked [the call-taker in Centro Operations] for the information [about when my ride would arrive]. She refused to give it, repeatedly demanding to know if I wanted to cancel. I said, “I’ve … Continue reading
The Bullies at Centro
Linda McKeown, the manager of Call-a-Bus, used bullying as her management style and she passed it down to her staff. Herewith my letter to her on October 18, 2004: Dear Linda, I have spoken with Sharon Keener, manager of … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, bully, Call-a-Bus, Centro, disability, disability rights, Jim Bacon, Linda McKeown, Medicaid transportation, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, values
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On Being Loaded
As a society we maintain a fiction that electric wheelchairs enable people with disabilities to be independent. The fact is that people with disabilities no longer have anyone upon whom they can depend to push their wheelchairs; that’s why we … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Medicaid, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Catholic Church, Centro, Christopher Community, disability, East Syracuse, family, HUD-subsidized housing, Kathy Hart, Linda McKeown, Medicaid transportation, power, power wheelchair, PTAC Syracuse, Public Transportation Advisory Committee Syracuse, segregation, service, St. David's Court
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From Linda McKeown to Aunt Naomi
There was no apparent logic behind how trips were scheduled for Call-a-Bus, and if you weren’t waiting at the door when the bus came then you’d miss your ride. Assuming you actually got on the bus, the drivers were hostile and lazy. … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged Aunt Naomi, Bus, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Centro, cerebral palsy, CP, disability, Linda McKeown, paratransit, transportation, wheelchairs
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