Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Sarah Sargent, and Eyad Salha, and Tara Brewster

Tuesday, January 16, 202401/16/2024

Western Mass Business Show 1.13.24 — Alexis Breiteneicher, Sarah Sargent, and Eyad Salha

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Want to know more about the Valley Community Development Corporation? Well listen in to hear all about how Alexis Breiteneicher, Sarah Sargent, and Eyad Salha are making a difference here in the 413. From affordable housing to homeownership to business consulting to workshops this non-profit is making a difference here for so many. Tune in to learn about their free services and why you should support their efforts here to create more opportunities for people to thrive in homes that provide not only shelter but a sense of community and pride. Thank you VCDC for all the hard work you do to assist with the housing crisis that we are currently facing. 

Tuesday, January 16, 202401/16/2024

Wars

In Talk The Talk

1/16/24: Michael Klare on Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen & Taiwan. Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Paul McNeil. Prof Carrie Baker with Safe Passage E.D. Marianne Winters. E’hmptn Mayor Nicole LaChappelle on DEI, voc. ed. & the superintendent search.

Friday, January 12, 202401/12/2024

Disaster Relief

In Talk The Talk

1/12/24: Rep Natalie Blais: on-line abuse & disaster relief. MTA Pres Max Page: book bans & a living wage. Celebrate! Lisa Thompson, Kathy Couch & Kelly Silliman: 33 Hawley. Atty Joe Schneiderman: the SJC & affordable housing. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: Trump & us. 

Thursday, January 11, 202401/11/2024

Free Speech, No Trump

In Talk The Talk

1/11/24: Atty John Bonifaz, President, Free Speech for People: keeping Trump off the ballot. Rev. Andrea Ayvazian: separation of church & state & her recent benediction.  Immunologist Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: Covid & other health threats today.  Glenn Seigel with the fabulous Roger Clark Miller: Friday’s Hawks & Reed gig.

Allie Wittner & Mary Beth Brooker 

Wednesday, January 10, 202401/10/2024

Quite the Ride

In Talk The Talk

1/10/24: Northampton Mayor G.L. Sciarra. Cool Films: Larry Hott has two recommendations. “2.5 Minute Ride” @ AoM with Mary Beth Brooker & Allie Wittner. Brian Adams with Jenny Powers, Science Dir., Spf’d Museums. No More Guantanamos with founder Nancy Talanian & atty/prof Bruce Miller.

Tuesday, January 9, 202401/09/2024

Western Mass Business Show on 1.6.24 — Michelle Abdow

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Join us as we speak to Michelle Abdow about going from a career in media to building a nationally recognized full-service marketing firm. She was pushed to entrepreneurship after her twins were born and hasn’t looked back in 20+ years. While she won’t tell us her favorite campaign that she has done, she always has the box of tissues ready for those Proctor and Gamble commercials during the Olympics. Learn more about how she has been tugging on heart strings for her clients all over the world as the founder of Market Mentors in West Springfield. Thank you, Michelle. Happy New Years listeners.

Tuesday, January 9, 202401/09/2024

Predictions

In Talk The Talk

1/9/24: Rep Pat Duffy: budget cuts and Fair Share. SABR star Duke Goldman: Red Sox & NYY in 2024. Ed. Collab. E.D. Todd Gazda: bullying in schools. Amherst BID Dir. Gabrielle Gould: making downtown flourish.

Megan Zinn & Lisa Prolman

Monday, January 8, 202401/08/2024

A New Library

In Talk The Talk

1/8/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: school receivership, the police & snow. UMass. Prof Amilcar Shabazz: MLK & the holiday. Constitutional law prof. Bruce Miller: the Trump disqualification case at SCOTUS. Megan Zinn & Lisa Prolman, Ass’t Dir., Greenfield Public Library: why libraries matter.

Lisa Wong, Tim Nelson, Paul Bockelman

Friday, January 5, 202401/05/2024

Taxing Times

In Talk The Talk

1/5/24: MTA Pres. Max Page: a police search for a book in a local school. Astronomer Salman Hammed: flights to asteroids & the moon.  Donnabelle Casis and Heid Erdrich: Indigenous art at the Meade. Community Action’s Rebecca Bannasch: $ back from the IRS.  Amherst Town Mg’r Paul Bockelman: potholes & schools.

Ruth Griggs & Ron Smith

Thursday, January 4, 202401/04/2024

Girls to the Front & Soulful Jazz

In Talk The Talk

1/4/24: Rep. Jim McGovern on war & peace & Biden. Stone Church’s Erin Scaggs & Alouette Batteau: women in the music industry. Prof. Brian Adams & climate activist Russ Vernon Jones: the failed COP conference. Ruth Griggs & NMH Music Program Director, composer & saxophonist Ron Smith — LIVE!

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