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Are You Worried?

Holly Robinson | Posted 10.28.2012 | Women
Read More: Holyoke, Drought, Mars Rover, Worrying, Massachusetts Health Care Plan, Afghanistan, Parenting, Cancer, Gardening, Anxiety, Global Warming, Recession, World Economy, Worry, Women News
Holly Robinson

I had a boyfriend in college who told me, "I thought you must be kind of a ditz because you were laughing all the time." Right. I'm laughing because otherwise I wouldn't step out of my house.

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Cindy Y. Rodriguez

Dante And Shakespeare Inspire Teen Moms To Continue Their Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Cindy Y. Rodriguez | Posted 02.08.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Holyoke, Video, The Care Center, Teen Pregnancy, Latinas, Hispanics, Massachusetts, Teen Birth Rate, Latina, Latino Prosperity, Latino Voices News

Teen mothers are getting a taste of the prep school experience, replete with studying the classics from Dante to Shakespeare, through an innovative pr...

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Reframing the Conversation: Holyoke's New Openly Gay Mayor Is a 22-Year-Old Optimist

Paul Gorrell, Ph.D. | Posted 01.14.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Openly Gay Mayor, Holyoke, Alex Morse, Lgbt, Alex Morse Holyoke, Holyoke Massachusetts, Young Gay Mayor, 22-Year-Old Gay Mayor, Gay Voices News
Paul Gorrell, Ph.D.

Alex believes that being gay and the way he came out are foundational to the type of leader that he has become, including his tendency to be inclusive. Coming out got him fired up about politics.

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Zero Destruction

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Baths of Caracalla, Pennsylvania Station, Victory Theatre, Ballet Nacional De Cuba, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Climate Change, Charles Ives, Berliner Ensemble, The Death of the Forest, Grand Central Station, Vanessa Redgrave, Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Holyoke, Donald T. Sanders, Green News
Norman MacAfee

Perhaps someone who reads this will help me do the math on the environmental effects of pointless destruction. What are the effects on global warming of a policy of unthinking destruction?

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