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By PATRICK O’CONNOR

There is a crisis in Holyoke’s public schools. Each year, a classroom-sized group of students with learning disabilities drops out. These students are then more likely to be arrested and jailed on Holyoke’s streets. Although unintentional, we are...

By PATRICK O’CONNOR

While Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia claims the city cannot afford to bus children through an unsafe area, school administrators and city officials continue to get paid handsomely. Just take a moment to look at some of these top 2022 school salaries, as...

By PATRICK O’CONNOR

I considered not writing about my son’s experience playing soccer this winter. I didn’t want to turn a positive —  children competing, learning teamwork and having fun — into a negative, experiencing racial biases in white suburban communities in the...