by jpitney | Feb 17, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Congress, Declaration of Independence, Disabilities, Dreier, Emergency, Environment, Race, Redistricting, Trade, Transparency, Vaccine
Jenny Jarvie and Grace Toohey at LAT: What went wrong with L.A. county’s warnings and evacuations is now the subject of two different investigations after Times reporting found that emergency wireless alerts went out to west Altadena almost five hours after fire began...
by jpitney | Jan 11, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Disabilities, Photojournalism, Senate
A release from Senator Eric Schmitt (D-MO): This weekend, Senator Eric Schmitt and Senator Jon Ossoff’s Think Differently Database Act was signed into law by the President: “The Think Differently Database Act creates a comprehensive website that provides...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2024 | California Politics, Disabilities
At LAT, Rebecca Ellis reports on abuse at Elwyn-Mayall, a home in Northridge for developmentally-disabled adults. In California, an alphabet soup of bureaucracies is tasked with making sure people with developmental disabilities are not abused — and if they are,...
by jpitney | Feb 15, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Disabilities, House of Representatives
I have an article at The Forum: “Disability Policy in the Contemporary Congress.” Abstract: The politics of disability policy in the contemporary Congress confirms the observation by James Curry and Frances Lee that lawmaking largely remains a process of...
by jpitney | Dec 27, 2023 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Disabilities, Senate
At NYT, Kayla Guo writes that family experience with disability can foster bipartisanship on disability issues. She focuses on Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) They have little in common in terms of politics or legislative priorities. But both...
by jpitney | Oct 3, 2023 | Biden, Disabilities
Remarks by President Biden to Celebrate the Americans With Disabilities Act; You know, one of my first acts as a United States senator — I know I don’t look old enough to do it — (laughter) — but one of my first acts was I voted — I was a co-sponsor of the...
