Journalist – Historian – Speaker
For people with disabilities, state government matters. Illinois finally has a budget, but it’s not a state on which I can gamble my son’s adulthood. We’re moving. “More house?” My son emphasizes the aspirated “H” as he climbs into our blue minivan. I pause and turn to look at him.“What?”“More … house.” This time he …
In our system, parents have to abandon their disabled children (officially anyway) in order to make the state into a child’s legal guardian, and thus the state will provide actual health care. From WBEZ: One of the worst moments in Eileen’s life was the day she called a local Chicago hospital to tell them she …
Today Steven Salaita gave a press conference. I was there. Full video here. Salaita spoke, along with with his constitutional lawyer Maria LaHood, one of his employment lawyers, Robert Warrior (chair of American Indian Studies), and Michael Rothberg from English (who read a statement from the MLA). You can read Salaita’s statement here. I’d like …