{"id":2150,"date":"2011-11-07T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:22:20","slug":"are-you-a-holyoke-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/07\/are-you-a-holyoke-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You a Holyoke Voter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I no longer live in Holyoke, the election tomorrow is important.<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning to vote, please take a moment to look at this short document &#8212; a  copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/Holyoke.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Holyoke Anti-Casino Voter&#8217;s Guide<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the Casino <em>sounds <\/em>like a good option for Holyoke, it seems to be another case of big business coming in with some negative effects on the city.<\/p>\n<p>My husband and I now live in the Finger Lakes and are facing a somewhat similar situation where Hydrofracking is all but ready to begin here, despite a huge disapproval by local citizenry.   Just watch the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1558250\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gasland<\/em><\/a> to know more about why.<\/p>\n<p>A big difference is between the two issues is that you, registered voters of Holyoke, have an opportunity to have your opinion weigh in &#8212; we do not get to vote on our Hydrofracking issue.   So take advantage of the power of voting.<\/p>\n<p>Vote with your heart, but be informed &#8212; click on the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/Holyoke.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Holyoke Anti Casino Voter&#8217;s Guide<\/a><\/em> to help make your decision. It is a short document to read, thank you in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I no longer live in Holyoke, the election tomorrow is important. If you are planning to vote, please take a moment to look at this short document &#8212; a copy of the Holyoke Anti-Casino Voter&#8217;s Guide. While the Casino sounds like a good option for Holyoke, it seems to be another case of big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}