Front Page Stories
Ritchie Targets
Voting Barriers
New Secretary of State
Pledges to Continue His Work on Eliminating Election Day Obstacles
for People with Disabilities
by Mai Thor and Beth Fraser
Ever since the November
elections, Mark Ritchie, the newly elected Secretary of State of
Minnesota, has been anxious for his term to start on January 2nd. “I
can’t wait to begin working to further improve our state’s
election system,” stated Ritchie.
Ritchie noted that although
Minnesota has led the country in voter turnout for some time, there
is still room for improvement. He pointed out that Minnesotans
with disabilities ... read
more about Ritchie >
Access Press’ 2006
in Review
Excerpts from Access Press articles
from 2006
History happens in small
steps. Sometimes we need to take stock of these changes so that
we appreciate how far we’ve come—and how far we still
need to go. ... read
more about the year in review >
Student Waxes Poetic
St. Paul Woman Wins Metro
State Award
by Harvey Meyer
A childhood photo of Mary
Bailey Bustos shows a happy-go-lucky kid with a sunny smile. But
she garners no warm fuzzies when examining the picture. Fact is,
as far as she is concerned, she might as well be gazing at a stranger.
That’s because, for all intents and purposes, she is. Memory
loss has effectively erased her childhood. Indeed, she has difficulty
recollecting anything that happened to her even two weeks ago.
Bailey Bustos, 44, who now
lives in Saint Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood, was thrown
head-first through a car windshield in a 1983 accident in Yakima,
Wash. When she awoke in a hospital room 18 hours later ... read
more about Mary >
