This week on the show Nathaniel Waring hosts and is joined by Natalia Munoz, Matt Szafranski, and Dan Torres in discussing the Northampton news guild’s contract with the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and how it relates to the larger problem of the erosion of local media; the Northampton board of health’s plan to require vaccine passports to patronize restaurants, and what we on the panel think will happen if they do; what measures might be able to get the unvaccinated population to get the jab, and how likely we are to see the number of fully vaccinated go up; Ben Downing’s announcement to drop out of the MA governor’s race, and how it relates to Maura Healey’s lack of commitment to run or not; the deaths of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Senator Harry Reed, and how their deaths – and their lives – have affected the political landscape in South Africa, and in America.