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1. 2011 State of the Art Conference on Postsecondary Education Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities – November 3 & 4 The State of the Art Conference on Postsecondary Education and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities will be held on November 3 – 4, 2011 in Fairfax, VA. Colleges and universities, researchers, program staff, parents and self-advocates will discuss the current state of policies, research and practice in the field. Check our share of cost site for additional […]...
2. State/Federal Partnership Has Reduced Illegal Tobacco Sales To Minors To An All-time Low A new report on the Synar Amendment program – a federal and state partnership aimed at ending illegal tobacco sales to minors – shows that all the states and the District of Columbia have continued to meet their goals of curtailing sales of tobacco to underage youth (those under 18)....
3. Michigan Share of Cost, National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy For Medical Mission To Haiti Michigan Share of Cost, National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy For Medical Mission To Haiti: The first team of registered nurse volunteers from California, Michigan, and Washington State will depart for Haiti Wednesday morning with the Department of Defense’s Continuing Promise, National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, announced. […]...
4. Roundup: In Oregon, New Gov. Kitzhaber Vows To Change State’s Health Care Delivery System; In Ariz., 2nd Person Denied Transplant Coverage Dies Roundup: In Oregon, New Gov. Kitzhaber Vows To Change State’s Health Care Delivery System; In Ariz., 2nd Person Denied Transplant Coverage Dies...
5. No gold left in the Golden State, share of cost Recovery, or at least stabilization, may be the watch words on Wall Street and in private industry, but for municipalities in California, it’s still very much the darkest hour.  As Ryan Gabrielson of CaliforniaWatch reports that seven different L.A. County municipalities have approached the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department about having the sheriffs take over […]...
6. Proving the Asian carp threat Here is the most powerful evidence yet that Asian carp will invade the Great Lakes unless the Army Corps of Engineers takes action.  Dan Egan of the Journal Sentinel reports that scientists who found carp DNA in the Chicago canal system, a few miles off of Lake Michigan, had their work approvingly peer-reviewed by the […]...
7. Sec. Of State Clinton Stresses Importance Of Science And Innovation For Development “Innovation, science [and] technology must again become fundamental components of how we conduct development work,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a “high-level meeting of international development and science experts” last week, SciDev.net reports…...
8. California’s Role In Ensuring That The Potential Of Health Reform Becomes Reality The fifty states will play a critical role in implementing the Affordable Care Act, and California is one of the states at the forefront of reform. The act can provide coverage to millions of currently uninsured Californians and offers important benefits in terms of more-affordable coverage, improved access to services, and better health outcomes. As […]...
9. First Study Of Resiliency On The Battlefield Led By MSU First Study Of Resiliency On The Battlefield Led By MSU...
10. Sea Lamprey Research Sheds Light On How Stress Hormones Evolved Michigan State University researchers are the first to identify a stress hormone in the sea lamprey, using the 500 million-year-old species as a model to understand the evolution of the endocrine system. Corticosteroid hormones control stress response in animals with backbones, including humans…...
11. Texas Share of Cost, Medicaid Reform Strategies for Texas Texas Share of Cost, Medicaid Reform Strategies for Texas...
12. Too big to succeed: the new national security state “The effort to justify its budget often affects the way an agency does business.” That’s how Charles Peters explained the growth of federal bureaucracies in his book How Washington Really Works, a guide to politics and government in the nation’s capital.  Peters’ description is borne out by the Washington Post’s exhaustive series, “Top Secret America,” […]...
13. DOJ to Intervene in Texas Case to Enforce Supreme Court’s Olmstead Decision On the 13th Anniversary of the Olmstead Decision, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to intervene in Steward, et al. v. Perry, et al., a case filed on behalf of thousands of Texans with developmental disabilities, to enforce their right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to receive services provided by the state in […]...
14. Olmstead – Community Integration for Everyone Information about the Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C., a ruling that requires states to eliminate unnecessary segregation of persons with disabilities and make sure that they receive services in the most integrated setting possible. Includes information about the “Year of Community Living” and enforcement of title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. […]...
15. Social Security Proposes Legislation to End Furloughs Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that the agency is submitting legislation to Congress that would prohibit states, without the Commissioner’s prior authorization, from reducing the number of state personnel who make disability determinations for Social Security or the hours they work below the amount the agency authorizes. “It is long past time that states […]...