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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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The Area Supervisor
I don’t remember meeting Leslie. I’ve lived in “senior housing”—HUD-subsidized housing for people who are poor, disabled and/or old—for twenty-two years and the main thing it’s taught me is to not have anything to do with my neighbors. I calculate … Continue reading
Posted in disability, disability rights, Housing, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged disability, poverty, poor people, HUD, Housing, subsidized housing, old people, Leslie, area supervisor, sick people, senior housing, neighbors, cross-dresser
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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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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 Government Services, Values, Power, disability, disability rights, power wheelchairs, advocacy, activism, Powerlessness, Housing, Poverty, Onondaga County
Tagged Aunt Naomi, Bus, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Centro, cerebral palsy, CP, disability, Linda McKeown, paratransit, transportation, wheelchairs
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The Contractor and the Contractee
No, as it turned out, the ACLU could not help me. The local branch apparently consisted solely of an executive director with no staff. I was sitting out there battering my head against Mike Addario, general manager of Rural Metro; … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Onondaga County, political corruption, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ACLU, conspiracy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, John Mulroy, Kathy Hart, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Mike Addario, Nick Pirro, Onondaga County, political corruption, Post-Standard, poverty, power, Republican Party, Rural Metro, Stephen A. Rogers, Stephen Rogers, The Syracuse Newspapers, values, Wayne Freeman
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Resume of an Activist
Anne C Woodlen Syracuse NY 13210 ribs2007@yahoo.com “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?’” ―Thomas S. Monson In 2001 I began the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, antidepressants, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, Citizens Review Board, citizenship, City of Syracuse, Crouse Hospital, David Sutkowy, depression, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, HUD, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS DOH, NYS OMIG, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Office of Medicaid Inspector General, Onondaga County Legislature, Onondaga County New York, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Police Dept., values, Visiting Nurses Association, VNA, Welfare
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Death of a Citizen; Birth of a Christian
In the homeless shelter, I was required to apply for Social Security Disability (SSD). In July 1991 I was declared totally disabled and awarded SSD; with that came Medicare and Medicaid. Transitional Living Services got me out of the shelter and … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, disability, drugs, God, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Christian, citizen, depression, disability, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, Food Stamps, God, health care, HEAP, Holy Bible, HUD, Medicaid, Medicare, mental disorder, mental illness, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, physicians, poverty, power, Social Security, values
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Wheelchair Christmas
For decades, my Christmas was like other people’s: I went home. Every Christmas I would drive down Route 81 to be with my parents in Pennsylvania. I took my antidepressants, not knowing that they were the cause of my continuing … Continue reading
Posted in disability, God, Inpatient psychiatry, Mental Illness & Health, power wheelchairs, Spirituality, Values
Tagged Christmas, disability, family, Wheelchair
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