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Show Us Your Tattoo Maggie McDonald of Easthampton

Show Us Your Tattoo Maggie McDonald of Easthampton

by From Our Readers | Sep 22, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, News

This is a new school-style portrait of my best friend Lani. We’ve been friends for 20 years now and are now 31-year-olds — that’s significant. Sadly, we live on opposite coasts now. She’s in San Fran and I’ve been between the Valley and Austin. I have two tattoos for...
From Our Readers: Change the conversation with #EachLifeMatters

From Our Readers: Change the conversation with #EachLifeMatters

by From Our Readers | Sep 14, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News

Change the conversation with #EachLifeMatters I am a black man who is troubled by #BlackLivesMatter. A human being is a microcosm of humanity, yet as Father Zossima remarks in The Brothers Karamazov, “It is easy to love mankind, but much more difficult to love a...

From Our Readers: Don’t take pregnancy for granted; On Trump and abortion

by From Our Readers | Sep 1, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News

Sanders is a champion of the working class Bernie Sanders, in contrast to the last five American presidents, is like a soothing summer breeze (“Citizen Sanders,” Aug.13-19, 2015). He has no cloaked agenda. With Sanders everything is up front for you to like or...
Letters From Our Readers: Aug. 27-Sept. 2, 2015

Letters From Our Readers: Aug. 27-Sept. 2, 2015

by From Our Readers | Aug 25, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News

Social good or Catholic bashing? In a coincidental twist, right before coming across Editor Kristin Palpini’s article, “Catholic Church Shirks Duty to Aging Religious,” Aug. 6-12, 2015, I read that the Diocese of Springfield donated $1 million dollars to the Sisters...

From Our Readers: Protect Planned Parenthood, life-saving abortion

by From Our Readers | Aug 19, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News

Don’t Defund Planned Parenthood Why are Republicans still trying to defund Planned Parenthood? Don’t they know that by providing millions of women with effective birth control, Planned Parenthood is preventing the abortions that would result from the unwanted...
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