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Today on The Rundown, panelists discuss racial segregation in Springfield and Holyoke schools, funding challenges faced by Pittsfield Schools as students choose other districts, the latest in the “Gender Queer” book controversy, and much more.

Nina Brand is the next storyteller in NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast series. She has a wonderful recollection of visits with her grandmother that passed on some important family knowledge.

We learn more about land history at Mumbet's Freedom Farm, visit the Hitcock Center for the Environment in Amherst to learn about the large impacts living sustainably, and chat with NEPM reporter Kari Njiiri about the Celtics' big win.

We talk to the 5th grades of Fort River Elementary School about the fighting for what you believe in, have a Local Hero Spotlight at Little Wall in Florence, and venture into the uncanny valley with an AI-generated song about Northampton.

We talk with SSO President Paul Lambert and jazz legend and NEPM Jass a la Mode host Avery Sharpe about the upcoming SSO Juneteenth concert, and revisit our fun from the Asparagus Festival with Mass. State Senator Jo Comerford and MDAR Commissioner Ashley Randle.

We talk to author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi about the new TV adaptation of his series, "WandLa," laugh with comedian John Hodgman before his Comedy Cabaret at Solid Sound on Saturday, and the funnest Word Nerd segment.

We chat with filmmaker and Emerson professor Bob Nesson about his film, "Holding Up the Sky," McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern, and taste some cocktails for an impromptu Thunderdome.

This week on NEPM’s Summer Shorts podcast series, it’s Michael Hoberman. But his story “Out of My Element” might actually be more about his hitchhiking companions, and the pursuit of Fun, with a capital F.

We chat with G. Michael Dobbs about his long career in mass communications which he details in his new memoir, check in with some folx of Mass Humanities about their recent operations move, and relish in the blueberry heaven that is BirdHaven Blueberry Farm.

Panelists discuss the shortage of primary care doctors in the region, the possibility of state support for the journalism industry, the future of accessible public transportation, and the latest in changes in Holyoke Public Schools.