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Yesterday afternoon, the Phillips Brooks House Association rallied alongside community organizers and other advocacy groups at the Massachusetts State House in response to the state’s budget proposal, which may result in cutbacks to funding for the association’s youth programs...
...budget plan, issued by the Boston House Ways and Means Committee, calls for reductions in funding for many state government programs, including support for the University of Massachusetts, mental health services, and youth funding—the last of which has several implications for PBHA’s programs...
...their best, these books capture the quiet faith that suffuses Amish life. Which is not to say the Amish don't ever have fun. Most of the books are set during the characters' Rumspringa, or "running around" years, the time when the Amish lift the stringent rules for courting youth...
...fact, there is nothing transgressive about Stacey’s typecast role. Morphing a welcome revelation of older women’s sexuality into the mindless caricature of a desperate youth-seeker who continues to have the hots after her hot flashes fade, the brand “cougar” is anything but forward-looking. The term was originally coined by men as a demeaning label for aging barflies who settled for whoever was still conscious at closing time. The “cougar” does not stem from a female fantasy of sexual empowerment, but from...
Proceeds from the show are given to Teen Empowerment, a Boston Area charity that works on leadership development in urban youth...