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Illusions and Delusions
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5/13/26 (Co-Host Brian Adams)

Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Town Councilor: Hampshire College’s closing — what we know and when we know it and maybe a silver lining for the town?

Emily Boddy & Laura Erny, from ReConnect  Western MA: “Digital Delusions—How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids.”

Darcy DuMont & Paul Fenn, founder & Pres of Local Power: The green energy you think you’ve been buying isn’t green—sorry; and more nukes?—sorry again.

Larry Hott & Raeshma Razvi, from Mass Humanities: “ A People’s Guide to the Revolution” — aspiration, inspiration and reality.

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