STIC responds to Governor's budget Feb 4, 2026 0 121 STIC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2026 Contact: Jennifer Watson 607-724-2111 jenniferw@stic-cil.org Southern Tier Independence Center Calls on State Leaders to Increase Funding for Independent Living ... Read more
A Deadly Mistake Jan 7, 2026 0 299 STIC Governor Hochul announced an agreement with the Legislature to advance legislation legalizing medical aid in dying in New York, with amendments expected to be passed and signed this month. In her stat... Read more
Slip Sliding Away... Dec 22, 2025 0 186 STIC Governor Hochul, irrepressible in her capacity to disappoint, has published an editorial announcing that she will sign an amended version of the MAID bill. There's still a possibility that the legisla... Read more
New York Must Avoid the Slippery Slope! Dec 10, 2025 0 227 STIC The Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) bill, A.136/S.138, now sits on Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk awaiting her signature. Reports suggest she may add a few “safeguards” before signing, but these are superfi... Read more
Deafblind funding largely restored Oct 22, 2025 0 402 STIC After furious public outcry, the Trump Administration reversed itself and restored the funding for the deafblind programs. However, it is too soon to declare unconditional victory; the funding is bein... Read more
Trump Administration cuts funding for deafblind children Sep 19, 2025 0 809 STIC Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc... Read more
Myth and Reality about CDPAP amidst the PPL takeover Jul 31, 2025 0 952 STIC This is a reprint of a press release jointly issued by the New York Association of Independent Living and The Caring Majority. A City State story on the CDPAP transition today cited a PPL study on fra... Read more
Advocacy preserves Accessibility Jul 31, 2025 0 631 STIC The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) tried to bulldoze through a rule change without the standard public comment period. It wanted to change a key disability rights law, specifically Section 504 of the... Read more
Oppose forced institutionalization of homeless people Jul 29, 2025 0 744 Our blog STIC In a previous blog post, https://www.stic-cil.org/blog/our-blog-1/protect-mental-health-rights-and-expand-voluntary-supports-in-new-york-4 , we discussed our opposition to New York Governor Hochul's i... Read more
Trump Administration "saves" subminimum wage jobs Jul 16, 2025 0 610 STIC In our Spring 2025 issue, we celebrated the Department of Labor’s announcement to phase out 14(c) certificates—finally moving to end the outdated and discriminatory policy that allowed people with dis... Read more
STIC working to Save Medicaid Jun 30, 2025 0 856 Our blog STIC A dozen advocates from STIC joined a good-sized demonstration at the Federal Building in downtown Binghamton on June 30 urging the House and Senate to reject the irresponsible, catastrophic, trillion ... Read more
CourtsWatch, Summer 2025 -- UPDATE Jun 18, 2025 0 935 STIC A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools: Defining the standard of “reasonable” This case comes to us from the Minneapolis suburbs, where a student, A.J.T. (“Ava”), with a profound disability moved to the school ... Read more
