The Associate Press offers this report: A woman with cerebral palsy is suing the Fort Wayne Housing Authority, claiming she suffered leg pains because her apartment’s toilet was installed too low. Patricia Ferro’s lawsuit alleges the toilet installed in February at her federally-funded low-income apartment was 2 inches shorter than the original toilet, leaving her […]
As you may have noticed from the byline on the post below, Abdul Hakim-Shabazz is now contributing to Indiana Barrister. Here’s Abdul’s biography, which will soon be added to the page of contributors: Abdul-Hakim Shabazz is the host of “Abdul in the Mornings” which can be heard weekday mornings from 5-9 on Newstalk 1430 AM, […]
Sunday is Christmas day. A big deal for a lot of people, for me (the Islamic agnostic) it’s just another day. But while you spend time opening presents and hanging out with family and friends, I want you to think about the origin of that day. Although Christmas is supposed to be about the birth […]
An important bill extending a moratorium on specialty hospitals has just passed Congress, the impact of which is wider than most realize. The battle between not-for-profit, general-care hospitals and for-profit hospitals that specialize in just a few high-profit procedures lies at the heart of the debate. As background, the Stark Act prohibits physicians from referring […]
The Evansville Courier & Press has long been a leader in print journalism by recognizing the importance of blogging. On an irregular basis it will occassionally run excerpts of blog entries from In the Agora, a group blog I contribute to. Most recently it has done that with Indiana Barrister in a column printed today […]
Famed radio talk show host Greg Garrison recently addressed Proposal 622 on his show, leading Advance Indiana to write: Garrison repeatedly lambasted the HRO as the legal recognition of the “homosexual lifestyle” and “acts of sodomy,” ignoring the conclusion reached by every major medical organization in the nation that sexual orientation and gender identity are […]
Yesterday the Indianapolis City-County Council approved Proposal 622, the Human Rights Ordinance which adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of classes, such as race, religion and gender, specifically protected from discrimination in the workplace and housing market. This kind of discrimination is already barred in city and state government hiring, but now […]
Each year like clockwork political pundits predict the demise of Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) and each year they’re proven wrong. Long known as the “Bloody Eighth” for its contentious elections, Hostettler has turned a volatile district into one of the most consistent since electing him in 1994. He’s impressed observers on both sides of the […]
The latest installment in the Indy Star editorial board’s “Left Behind” series on Indiana’s dropout crisis was published today. The piece, titled “Not Just an Urban Problem,” reports, “Some 4,300 students from the original class of 2005 dropped out of Central Indiana’s schools. And not just those of IPS and township districts. A survey of […]
The Indianapolis Star‘s Tammy Webber reports that medical errors will be treated differently after Jan. 1, “when a new Indiana law will require hospitals to report more than two dozen types of mistakes.” The state will make the errors at each hospital available for public review — making Indiana only the second state in the […]
