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John Paradis

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Northampton
As seen in: Medium, MassLive, DVIDS, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder, New England Public Media, Amherst Bulletin, Athol Daily News
Covers:  Regional issues pertaining to New England with particular interest in conservation, environmental issues, climate crisis, historical preservation, public education, and saving local journalism.
Doesn't Cover: As long as I can relate the topic to a local issue or person, I'll cover it.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: Project 2025's dangerous agenda demands our attention - Daily Hamps...

Guest columnist John Paradis: Project 2025's dangerous agenda demands our attention - Daily Hamps...

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Nearly three years ago, in January 2023, a small group of about 15 people gathered for three days at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. Their mission: to create a far-right plan to consolidate power, undermine democracy, and ultimately create a new nation based on conservative and Christian nationalist principles.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: Documentary sheds light on post-9/11 veterans' war experiences - Da...

Guest columnist John Paradis: Documentary sheds light on post-9/11 veterans' war experiences - Da...

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Chances are that veterans this past week have heard a phrase of gratitude thanking them for their service. While we live in a time when Americans widely respect veterans for our service, that doesn't mean that military service is understood, especially wartime service. War is an experience that is difficult to understand unless you've been there.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: Every act of resistance counts - Daily Hampshire Gazette

Guest columnist John Paradis: Every act of resistance counts - Daily Hampshire Gazette

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Every act of resistance counts. Every principled action of dissent, no matter how small or large, can and will make a difference. There is no time to wait and no time to sit on the sidelines. Choose something. And then, when it’s your turn to step up, you, too, can say that you have done what you could do now.
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My Turn: How did empathy become the enemy?

My Turn: How did empathy become the enemy?

Athol Daily News — In warfare, necropolitical decisions are made to justify killing people, both enemy combatants and civilians. But what happens when such decisions are made against Americans by Americans? What happens when cruelty and dehumanization are used to condone hateful behavior that is anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-science, and anti-diversity?
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American flag belongs to all of us

American flag belongs to all of us

Greenfield Recorder — President Trump and his MAGA movement don’t own patriotism or the American flag. Both belong to all of us. Remember that point if you take to the streets on June 14. On June 14, take back our flag and America. In standing tall that day with conviction and purpose, you are telling those on the right that you love America too.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: White Rose legacy transcends, inspires

Guest columnist John Paradis: White Rose legacy transcends, inspires

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Whether it be 1940s Nazi Germany or today’s MAGA America, the good side of history relies on good people doing, as John Lewis said, “good trouble.” This has always been necessary. But it is even more necessary today.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: How Republicans plan to dismantle VA health care

Guest columnist John Paradis: How Republicans plan to dismantle VA health care

The Recorder (Greenfield, MA) — The Republicans are looking to dismantle the VA's integrated health care system and replace it with so-called "community care" - the VA euphemism for private health care. We can't let that happen.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: Time for a People's Cabinet

Guest columnist John Paradis: Time for a People's Cabinet

Daily Hampshire Gazette — We need a People’s Cabinet to give positive alternatives to Trump’s negative messages, whether it be attacks on immigrants or on trans people or doing away with reproductive rights for women. It would be a way to give the public a sense of what a positive America could look like as opposed to more Trump hate-mongering and negative rhetoric.
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100 Days to 100 Years

100 Days to 100 Years

Medium — What will this land look like in 100 years? Except for infants and the very youngest children among us, we won't know. Most everyone agrees that the November election will be the watershed moment in the history of our country and, it’s not too hyperbolic to say, I think, for the destiny of our planet.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: Message of hope needed to eclipse rancor

Guest columnist John Paradis: Message of hope needed to eclipse rancor

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Here's a statistic that should get everyone's attention: The number of suicides in our country reached record levels last year. Depression and anxiety rates are at new heights, too. A New York Times article noted that teenagers are more concerned...
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Guest columnist John Paradis: Let's make world safe for kids to be silly

Guest columnist John Paradis: Let's make world safe for kids to be silly

Daily Hampshire Gazette — We need symbols and reminders that we humans can be silly. Our lives are made of stories, the sillier the better. War and violence can’t defeat our capacity to be silly.
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Thanking more than veterans for their service

Thanking more than veterans for their service

WFCR FM — Commentator and veteran John Paradis says family members of veterans have also served. In fact they often continue to serve.
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The Right to be Silly

The Right to be Silly

Medium — I couldn’t imagine a world without being silly. I think I do silly things like putting out perfectly good pumpkins for squirrels to eat because I may not get to do them tomorrow.
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Guest columnist John Paradis: A veteran who takes helping other vets as his sacred duty

Guest columnist John Paradis: A veteran who takes helping other vets as his sacred duty

Daily Hampshire Gazette — In 2022, when Washington bureaucrats thought it would be a good idea to close the VA medical center in Northampton, several veterans, including myself, were incredulous.U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern was livid too, and he called on us to speak up so he could...
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Guest columnist John Paradis: Nothing healthy about our elections

Guest columnist John Paradis: Nothing healthy about our elections

Daily Hampshire Gazette — What we observed recently with Addison Mitchell McConnell III, however, shouldn’t be noteworthy in respect to just his physical or neurological health. Nor should it be about his repugnant politics or about his age and whether Congress is a gerontocracy.
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Guest Columnist John Paradis: The most important document in US history - and why

Guest Columnist John Paradis: The most important document in US history - and why

Daily Hampshire Gazette — The definition of hyperbole is an obvious and intentional exaggeration, or an extravagant statement or figure of speech. But after reading the indictment charging former president Donald J. Trump, this is why United States vs. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta is the most important document in my lifetime.
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Guest Columnist John Paradis: Dereliction of duty toward veterans

Guest Columnist John Paradis: Dereliction of duty toward veterans

Daily Hampshire Gazette — May is National Military Appreciation Month. Designated by Congress in 1999 to honor past and present military members and their families, the month includes several commemorations, including Loyalty Day, VE Day, Military Spouse Appreciation Day, Armed Forces Day and, of course, Memorial Day.
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Columnist John Paradis: Santiago a game changer for veterans

Columnist John Paradis: Santiago a game changer for veterans

Daily Hampshire Gazette — First impressions are important. "I know what I don't know," says Dr. Jon Santiago at a recent meeting with veterans as Gov. Maura Healey's secretary of veterans' services, a newly created cabinet-level position. Santiago approaches this new chapter in the history of veterans' services in our state with humility and an understanding that his job comes with great expectation to be proactive and to take charge.
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We need more people like Ted Lasso and fewer assholes like Logan Roy

We need more people like Ted Lasso and fewer assholes like Logan Roy

Medium — You couldn't find two completely different series to binge-watch than "Ted Lasso" and "Succession." Both start back up this month for what is expected to be their final seasons. "Ted Lasso," the soccer dramedy, is about finding happiness through community, teamwork, getting help, and selflessness.
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Columnist John Paradis: America's love for football defines us

Columnist John Paradis: America's love for football defines us

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Our obsession with America’s darling NFL brand is deeply perverse.
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Columnist John Paradis: A hero among us

Columnist John Paradis: A hero among us

Daily Hampshire Gazette — On the day we meet, in late December, the thermometer was approaching 60 degrees and the ground was a muddy brown and not frozen. It’s mid-January, and we still haven’t experienced a major snowstorm this winter.
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Columnist John Paradis: A story of liberty, freedom and doing the right thing

Columnist John Paradis: A story of liberty, freedom and doing the right thing

Daily Hampshire Gazette — At the Bittersweet Bakery and Café in South Deerfield recently, I met Chantal Joyeux-DuPuis and her good friend, Sally Laubin, two members of "Bonjour," a French conversation group that meets in Bernardston. With the help of Laubin, a retired French teacher, I am transported in time to France during the dark years of the Second World War.
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Columnist John Paradis: A timeless message on Veterans Day

Columnist John Paradis: A timeless message on Veterans Day

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Netflix recently remade the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front," the latest and most gruesome film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's World War I masterpiece novel. It’s time to go back to remembering November 11th the way it was originally commemorated — to call for peace as a universal principle. That’s the most profound way to honor the lives of our veterans.
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John Paradis: Help CDH's emergency department reach the finish line

John Paradis: Help CDH's emergency department reach the finish line

Daily Hampshire Gazette — Like any good marathoner, the hospital’s staff is planning and preparing to expand with new rooms and new space, but they need our community’s help to reach the finish line.
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