BAC Rutland

Even without the new health care law, mental health advocates were getting ready to celebrate parity — a law requiring benefits for substance abuse and mental illnesses to be on par with benefits for medical illnesses.

But that law, passed in 2008 and taking full effect only this July, did not cover everyone with insurance, and it offered no help to the 32 million uninsured Americans.
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Karl Greenfeld grew up in Los Angeles as the older brother – by two years – of perhaps the most famous autistic child in America. Noah Greenfeld was the subject of three popular books – “A Child Called Noah,” “A Place For Noah,” and “A Client Called Noah” – written by their father, Josh, a successful screenwriter.  The books, as well as widely read magazine articles, trace the early history of autism diagnosis and treatment, through the eyes of one family desperately seeking help for Noah. Those efforts, and the efforts of families like the Greenfelds, eventually led to therapies that offer some hope to families today. But not for Noah Greenfeld. Now 43, Noah does not speak and lives in an assisted living home near Los Angeles.
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You have heard the saying, “Issue One is Jobs”? In Ohio, that is more than a slogan.

Between now and May 4th, Ohioans will vote on Issue One: a spectacular jobs program. It is an urgent reason to go to the polls: in person, or by absentee ballot. Issue One is a $700 million continuation of a program called Ohio Third Frontier, begun by Governor Bob Taft (R), and supported by Governor Ted Strickland (D). Astonishingly, in today’s acrid hyper-partisan atmosphere, Issue One is truly bipartisan, supported by overwhelming majorities in both houses of the legislature.
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DURHAM — Keith Jones, a nationally recognized disability rights advocate and artist, will speak at the University of New Hampshire Thursday, April 22. Jones’s talk is part of the Janet Krumm Disability & Media Lecture Series of UNH’s Institute on Disability (IOD).
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