The Mini Getaway series is about some of our mini vacations of no more than a long weekend:
Being from Pittsburgh we have many nicknames and jokes about Cleveland or the Mistake On The Lake. When my wife first suggested a trip to Cleveland I wondered what she had been drinking and how much. We had been there a few times for my son’s high school crew races, but we were in and out and didn’t really do any sightseeing. It was one of the nicer races for spectators.
“A Florida nonprofit that has sued more than 700 businesses claiming they violate disability access laws targeted at least two Pittsburgh hotels in its latest round of court action.”
That is the first paragraph in a story carried in our local paper about a group that targeted two Holiday Inn Hotels for violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act. When you look at the surface of the story it sounds like a worthy organization (it is a nonprofit) is suing a big corporation (it is for profit) on behalf of disabled people. A few things jump out from the article:
