Friday, March 3, 202303/03/2023

Lucky 13

In Talk The Talk

3/4/23: Dan Rist on leaving the Easthampton City Council after 13 terms; former Mass. Senate President and John Olver staffer, Stan Rosenberg, on the Congressman’s legacy; MTA President Max Page on Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed budget for higher ed; Western Mass. Governor’s Councilor Tara Jacobs on her first days on the job; Hampshire professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on aliens, the Big Bang Theory and the time on the moon.

Thursday, March 2, 202303/02/2023

Panorama- Episode 65 – Organizing for Environmental Justice with Westfield With Activists Kristen Mello and Mary Ann Babinski

In Panorama

Originally Aired on March 4, 2023. Kristen Mello is the founder of Westfield Residents Advocating for Themselves (WRAFT) and a city councilor fighting to hold the Barnes Air National Guard accountable for the PFAS pollution from firefighting foam used on the air base. Mary Ann Babinski is a former city councilor and longtime environmental activist working on a number of issues in and around the city. Both activists have a keen sense of how they can protect “environmental justice communities” which have historically suffered the most environmental harm for the sake of development.

Thursday, March 2, 202303/02/2023

Congress and All That Jazz

In Talk The Talk

3/2/23: Congressman Jim McGovern on working with Republicans in the House; FABULOUS MUSIC—We preview this weekend’s Back Porch Festival with Sandy Bailey— performing live in the studio; Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on the new semester—starting now—of the Sojourner Truth School for Social Justice Leadership – Science and Sensibility with Brian Adams and Emma Ellsworth, Exec. Dir. of the Mount Grace Land Trust; Take Five with Ruth Griggs and Carol Abbe Smith, scatting live in the studio.

Wednesday, March 1, 202303/01/2023

What About the Rule of Law?

In Talk The Talk

3/1/23: Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan on crime and policing in our region; Cool Films with Larry Hott on documentary films that deserve our attention, Retrograde and Turn Every Page; Mireille Bejjani on Thursday’s “Boston Fee Party” and its call for Democratic Representation and Clean Energy; Law Professor Mark Denbeaux on the detailed study of the January 6th insurrectionists and DoJ’s response by the Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy & Research.

Tuesday, February 28, 202302/28/2023

Trump Indictment??

In Talk The Talk

2/28/23: Political Gold with Consultant Josh Silver on Trump’s legal jeopardy and his 2024 presidential aspirations; Black in Valley with Jacqueline Smith-Crooks’ remembrance of Professor John Bracey, and the Voices of Resilience Museum exhibit curated by Professor Janine Fondon and exhibit scholar Dr. Demetria Shabazz; Fair Play with Duke Goldman on the physical and mental health issues faced by today’s athletes; and Jackie Walsh’s Playbill with Iranian director Behnam Alibakhshi on UMass Theater’s “Aurash,” a play based on an important Persian myth.

Monday, February 27, 202302/27/2023

Honoring Olver

In Talk The Talk

2/27/23: John Olver’s life and legacy with Mayors Roxann Wedegartner and David Narkewicz, and Representatives Ellen Story and Natalie Blais. Gazette and Recorder Executive Editor, Dan Crowley, on covering Congressman Olver and cancelling Dilbert. New York Times best-selling author Josh Mensch on “The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill;” and Writer’s Block with Megan Zinn and Margot Douaihy on her mystery “Scorched Grace.”

Saturday, February 25, 202302/25/2023

The Hustler Files Ep 4

In The Hustler Files

THE POWER OF TOGETHER

When Judy Issacson Elias launched the Heroes To Heroes organization in 2010 to help War Zone Veterans who had suffered moral injury she couldn’t have imagined that almost 13 years later she, her staff and her volunteers would have positively impacted 350 veterans and have 750 on a waiting list to join her 18 month program that includes a 10-day biblical journey of faith, to Israel. Seventeen veterans commit suicide every day in the United States and Judy says that to impact veterans suffering from moral injury, is at the core, all about faith.

Friday, February 24, 202302/24/2023

Pressing On

In Talk The Talk

2/24/23: Max Page, Mass. Teachers Ass’n President, on today’s Boston Globe report that many Massachusetts educators don’t earn a living wage; Ed Tick on his dual book release this weekend in Amherst, including “Coming Home in Vietnam;” Larry Parnass, former Daily Hampshire Gazette editor, on his new job (he began this week) as Executive Editor of the Springfield Republican and the future of local journalism.

Thursday, February 23, 202302/23/2023

Western Mass Business Show 2.18.23 – Laura Fisher Executive Director of Just Roots

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Join the conversation with Laura Fisher Executive Director of Just Roots as she talks about her family background in farming in 01027, battling climate, injustice, and the politics of humanity. Her mantra (and Ram Dass’s) of Love, Serve, Remember helps this non-profit move through the ways that they can live in service through food but also arrive at new places in partnership with hospitals, businesses, and COOP’s. Join us as we dish it up with this bicounty leader in the 413.

Thursday, February 23, 202302/23/2023

Caroling in February

In Talk The Talk

2/23/23: Carol Rose, Exec. Dir., ACLU of Massachusetts, on threats to, and fighting for, freedom of speech and reproductive rights across the country and in Massachusetts; Carole Bull, pastor of the United Church of Ware, on the meaning of Ash Wednesday and Lent; on this the 50th, anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the species saved and those still endangered with Susi von Oettingen from Hadley Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Take Five with Glenn Siegel and alto-saxophonist maestro, coming to the Valley, Jorge Sylvester.