Hannah Rechtshaffen, Ex Dir, Greenfield Business Ass’n, on the new Passport Program & so much more

8/4/26 Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz. FishWrap: unionizing the Eric Carle Museum; the First Franklin race debate; Nhmptn City Councilor Laurie Loisel on trans rights—her piece in today’s Gazette. Black in the Valley w/ the founders-- Professors Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks & Carlie Tartakov -- & Amilcar Shabazz on Frederick Douglass’ “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will” -- applying that statement here and now. Hannah Rechtshaffen, Ex Dir, Greenfield Business Ass’n, on the new Passport Program, downtown grocery stores, foot traffic, venues, the creative economy & housing. Lisa Wong, South Hadley Town Administrator: the town’s cannabis ban, food trucks, agricultural entertainment zones, Mount Holyoke College and the PILOT, and the Override vote on Sept 1.