Developmental Disability/Defending Democracy in Washington, DC

  On April 23, Facilities Committee chair Janeese Lewis George hosted the budget hearing for the Office of Disability Rights and the Departm...

Since I last wrote, timing has changed again with respect to the DC, and the DDS, budget.  Release of the mayor's budget was delayed fur...

In today's DDS forum, Andy Reese announced that the mayor's budget release to the council will be slightly delayed, to April 5.  As ...

This year's Developmental Disability Awareness Month events have been rich and exciting - I enjoyed the Lifeline/Project ACTION! gatheri...

The DDS performance review took place as announced last Thursday.  There were many witnesses for both ODR and DDS, and the DDS portion of th...

I wrote last month about the upcoming DDS and ODR performance review council hearing, and that will be happening on Thursday of this week.  ...

So much upheaval as the year gets under way. First, the untimely death of Mat McCollough , the longtime head of our Office of Disability R...

There will be a lot of news to come in 2026, but for now I'm feeling celebratory and will just redirect you to my new DClives post, whic...

I've been delinquent in my blogging lately, but the time has come to try to make up for that.  So much is happening nationally that has ...

Thomas' memorial service last Thursday was such a positive and healing experience - he contributed so much and it was an honor to his me...