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Emyle Watkins

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Emyle Watkins

    Disabilities Beat: Options available this season for New York hunters with disabilities (opens the original)

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    Last year, over 530,000 people were licensed to hunt, and over 227,000 white-tailed deer were harvested in New York. With hunting being a popular activity throughout New York, the state Department of Environmental Conservation does offer resources to make the sport more accessible. This week on the Disabilities Beat, we speak with a DEC regional wildlife biologist who breaks down some of the permits, discounts and resources available to disabled hunters. Hi, I'm Emyle Watkins, and this is the Di

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Emyle Watkins

    Disabilities Beat: CDPAP workers could take part in historic union vote by year's end (opens the original)

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    1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East says is has collected enough authorization cards from employees under New York State’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP, to file for a unionization vote through the National Labor Relations Board. CDPAP allows disabled people to hire people they know as personal assistants using Medicaid funds. In 2025, the state cut the number of companies administering it from more than 700 to just one, Public Partnerships LLC, or PPL. Now, under

  3. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Emyle Watkins

    1199 SEIU files for union vote for 190,000 New York CDPAP workers (opens the original)

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    1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East is already America’s largest healthcare union — but could grow by over 47% with one of the largest union election votes in U.S. history now pending. The union announced Tuesday morning it has filed for an election through the National Labor Relations Board for workers under the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) after obtaining 70,000 authorization cards. The vote, by mail, could happen by the end of the year, executive vice pre

  4. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Emyle Watkins

    Goo Goo Dolls honored in unique Buffalo History Museum exhibit opening Sept. 17 (opens the original)

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    On Wednesday night, John Rzeznik and Robby Takac from the Goo Goo Dolls found themselves surrounded by people who now knew much, much more than their name and songs. Scrapbooks from Takac's mother, the original guitar and notes that Rzeznik used to figure out the alternative tuning to their hit song "Name," and more filled the Buffalo History Museum's new exhibit "Long Way Home: 40 Years of the Goo Goo Dolls." "I don't think Robbie and I in 1986 would ever have imagined that there would be like

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Emyle Watkins

    Disabilities Beat: Remembering 'fierce' disability rights advocate Gwen Squire (opens the original)

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    Last week, Buffalo lost one of its leaders in disability advocacy: Gwen Marie Squire. Squire died on Friday at age 60. "She was loved by so many people. So many have reached out to me saying how much impact she had on their lives," shared her niece, Melissa Stone, with BTPM on Tuesday. "She never let her disability stop her from achieving what she wanted to do," Stone added. "People telling her she couldn’t pushed her to prove them wrong." Born with spina bifida, Squire started her advocacy jour

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