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City PR:Mayor Creates Disability Affairs Committee
Posted by John B. KellyI finally got a copy of the city's press release announcing the formation of a disabilities commission. It still isn't posted at the city of Boston website, is there anything to that?The creation of a committee is far less important to advocates than the commitment of the... Read more...
Published a month ago

GLOBEWATCH: Inaccurate Rewrite of City Press Release Too Funny!!
Posted by John B. KellyI've been a reader of the Boston Globe for about 25 years now, and I've watched what was once a smart, liberal paper become a rag. I've been so offended so often by the inaccuracies and built-in biases of the reporting, that I've thought about doing some commentary on... Read more...
Published a month ago

City flouts the ADA at Symphony Hall
Posted by John B. KellyIn 2006, Symphony Hall moved its box office down to ground level, thereby creating ground-level access.When the sidewalk dug up during construction was put back down, however, I was able to file a complaint because the repaired sidewalk did not comply with access... Read more...
Published a month ago

Mayoral Leadership Challenge: Respect the ADA, Obey the AAB.
Posted by John B. KellyFollowing is a press statement released by Neighborhood Access Group to coincide with Mayor Thomas M. Menino's announcement due Friday, July 25 of a curb cut repair program.If you keep scrolling down after this entry, you will run into articles about Huntington Avenue, NAG... Read more...
Published a month ago

Herald front-page story on Huntington Avenue, August 2007
Posted by John B. KellyThis front page story in the Boston Herald, by ace reporter Marie Szaniszlo (the only reporter I've ever talked to who gets things correct), ran on August 26, 2007. Excerpts belowDisabled rip Hub’s $320G sidewalkBy Marie SzaniszloSunday, August 26, 2007 Meet the most... Read more...
Published a month ago

Boston Globe story on Huntington Avenue, July 2006
Posted by John B. KellyThe Boston Globe published its only story on the Huntington Avenue debacle on July 26, 2006, when the Architectural Access Board issued a press release announcing its fine of the city for "willful noncompliance."The state Architectural Access Board said yesterday that it... Read more...
Published a month ago

NAG letters to Mayor Menino on Huntington Avenue
Posted by John B. KellyAfter there was no response to our petition in 2005, we sent three letters to Mayor Menino about Huntington Avenue. Here are the first two (a third was sent later in the summer of 2006, but I can't find it).First letter to Mayor Menino:May 1, 2006Mayor Thomas M. Menino1... Read more...
Published a month ago

NAG Petition to Mayor Menino, August 2005
Posted by John B. KellyNAG members presented this petition to an aide of Mayor Thomas M. Menino in August, 2005, when the mayor came to the Fenway to announce the Symphony Area Streetscape Initiative. 65 people signed it, but we never heard back.CITIZENS APPEAL TO MAYOR THOMAS M. MENINOThe... Read more...
Published a month ago

State Agency Demands Boston Payment of $438,500
Posted by John B. KellyIn April, the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board sent a demand letter to the city of Boston. Citing the city for "willful noncompliance" with its regulations, the Access Board demanded payment of more than $400,000.The city still hasn't paid its fine, now approaching... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Boston Herald Pressures City on Access
Marie Szaniszlo has a great article in today's Boston Herald on the access debacle known as Huntington Avenue, which was gentrified with an all-brick, uneven sidewalk in 2003-2004.The article is on page 4, and can also be found online here.This story, ignored by every other media outlet, was... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

2007 In Memoriam: Jeff Thompson
I met Jeff Thompson through BCIL where we were both advocates. He was a good guy learning how to fight for his rights, whether at college or regarding sidewalk access. We spoke sometimes on the phone about shared personal experiences, in a way that people with spinal cord injury often do. Just... Read more...
Published 8 months ago

2007 In Memoriam: Kia Scott
Kia Scott of Dorchester died in November. I got the chance to talk to her a little bit at an action Karen Schneiderman of the Boston Center for Independent Living organized in Fields Corner. She was very sweet, but could not stand the fact that people were always parking their cars in front of... Read more...
Published 8 months ago