Testify (Part III)
Here's my testimony before the NYS Budget Forum Manhattan on March 3, 2019. I got there late, after the Bernie Sanders rally in Brooklyn,...
Here's my testimony before the NYS Budget Forum Manhattan on March 3, 2019. I got there late, after the Bernie Sanders rally in Brooklyn,...
Disability advocates and activists from around the city will protest outside of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's NYC offices Thursday, to remind him...
Earlier this week I went to Albany for the first time. I tagged along with a group called Center for Independence of the Disabled who...
I gave a speech last night before the Citywide Council for NYC School District 75. It was very well received. I was asked to discuss...
Ability Fierce Episode 4 aired last night on Brooklyn Free Speech TV last night but even if you missed it, you can catch it here or on...
Democratic whip NYS Sen. Kevin Parker is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to protect Consumer Directed Personal Assistance _ a...
My son Nicholas is back in the news, this time over threats to the highly-successful Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. If...
(Dear reader: This is part of a two part post, which I may later edit down into one, but I wanted to put out the news part before it gets...
That's right folks, the fourth episode is ready and will be on the air on Jan. 31. In this episode we talk with Dr. James Edmondson, a...
Dear Gov. Cuomo, I hope you remember me, my name is Nick Astor and I’m a 19-year-old with cerebral palsy. Last summer, you made it...
Today, I'm posting a short essay by Sheryl Singleton Lynch who is an author, advocate and mother of an autistic child. Sheryl will be...
Yes, it's a new year and we have a new show for you featuring John Camacho president of NYC School District 75. Mostly we talked about...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo named Dr. Theodore Kastner to head New York's states developmental disabilities office on Friday. Kastner, who...
It's a little hard to make out what's exactly happening here because it's in Japanese but this article pretty much explains it and links...
Last year I made a little video about my son Nick wanting to live away at college called, "Here." This video is called, "There." I think...
Twenty three -year-old Kendell Thomas likes to spend his days watching cartoons on YouTube and speeding up music videos so that “they...
Join us for Episode Two where we talk with Stephen Martinez, sports commentator and an aspiring sports reporter with cerebral palsy about...
Due to technical difficulties at BRIC the first episode of Ability Fierce did not air as promised, at least over internet streaming. They...
Yes, that's right you can see the first episode of Ability Fierce on your television, if you have cable and live in Brooklyn or have...
A few weeks back, I participated as a marshal in a protest march calling on Congress to protect Robert Mueller's investigation in the...