by Advocate Staff | Mar 5, 2018 | Articles, News, Newsletter, Podcast
As chair of the Springfield Food Policy Council Steering Committee and board chair of Gardening the Community, Liz Wills-O’Gilvie thinks a lot about how growing up as a minority in an urban neighborhood affects your access to healthy food. She says there are 10...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 2, 2018 | Articles, News
Has this winter seemed unseasonably warm to you? Or what about that shocking cold a couple months ago? It turns out that with one of the warmest Februarys on record and a record-breaking two-week cold snap around New Year’s, the winter itself averaged out to be...
by Dave Eisenstadter, Sarah Heinonen, and Gina Beavers | Feb 27, 2018 | Articles, News
Born the same year of the Columbine High School Shooting in Colorado, 18-year-old Madison Pease of Southampton grew up hearing about school shootings. But it wasn’t until 17 people were killed in the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida, that she began thinking...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 27, 2018 | Articles, Between the Lines, News, Newsletter
Fifty years ago, in 1968, student protests rocked the Vietnam War debate, and were eventually credited with turning public sentiment against the war. For young people, particularly young men, their very lives were at stake with the instituted military draft sending...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 26, 2018 | Articles, Newsletter, Podcast, The V-Spot
Yana Tallon-Hicks has been writing the Advocate’s sex and relationship column, The V-Spot, for seven years. It’s something she enjoys greatly, but she says it isn’t exactly the Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle some people seem to think it is. She is also a...
