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Last week, I learned that a friend applied at Lowe’s to earn some extra cash. This guy is one of the most experienced carpenters around who knows every tool on the market, pays incredible attention to detail, and is probably Lowe’s dream customer (and worker, I would think). Yet, when[.....]

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It was ten years ago this month that one of the strangest stories I’ve ever worked on began to unravel.
In late 1996, Saturn, the car company, was in the midst of its “Real People, Real Cars” advertising campaign. This ad campaign featured actual car owners who were not actors.[.....]

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When I was a day student at the Illinois School for the Deaf in 1985, I usually went to the dorms at lunchtime and after school for extracurricular and dorm activities. Although the socialization was always fun, there was one deciding factor for whether we kids would have a good[.....]

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Ask Matt Daigle what he does, and he immediately answers, “I’m a stay-at-home dad to my one-year-old son Hayden.” He’s also a freelance cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer, but it’s his role as a father that he’s most proud of.
So it isn’t a surprise that Daigle’s design won a breastfeeding[.....]

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A group of disabled people filed a civil lawsuit, citing the state Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act, on Nov. 22 against the Massachusetts House and Senate leaders for failing to provide access to State House events. Among the litigants are three deaf community leaders: John Pirone, Louis Rivas,[.....]

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“Where people go, I go the other way,” Jay Blumenfeld says with a playful smile.
Blumenfeld, 52, is the owner of Smart Alex, a Chicago-based manufacturer and wholesale distributor of greeting cards and party items. Smart Alex – which bills itself as having “smart humor with attitude,” has sold over[.....]

January 2, 2009: This organization is apparently inactive. Donations to the organization have not been returned nor acknowledged; complaints have been filed with the state of Florida and the Better Business Bureau. Even so, do consider adopting a deaf dog today.
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I avoid www.deafdogs.org like the plague.
Otherwise, I end up having[.....]

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If a deaf person runs for political office, should deaf people automatically support that candidate simply because she or he is deaf?
That was the question I posed to several friends recently. In Minnesota, we have the fine Rev. Emory Dively (R) running for District 64B (St. Paul) in the Minnesota[.....]

This article originally appeared in the Faribault Daily News, Faribault, MN.
FARIBAULT – More than 1,000 miles away from Faribault, protests at Gallaudet University, the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people, in Washington, D.C., have been of keen interest to local residents.
When Dr. Jane K. Fernandes, a deaf woman, was chosen as the[.....]

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There’s a new interpreter training/preparation program (ITP) in Quincy, Ill., at Quincy University- where my grandmother worked for 35 years. When I learned of this ITP’s establishment, I was flabbergasted for a number of reasons.
First, Quincy only has about 20-30 deaf people in a population of 40,000. The town is[.....]