Podcasts
Podcasts
Monday, March 6, 202303/06/2023
Western Mass Business Show 2.25.23 – Dr. Lynnette-Watkins
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as Dr. Lynette Watkins discusses the ways that Cooley Dickinson Hospital has risen to the occasion that healthcare demands in today’s developing post Covid landscape. Dr. Watkins has traveled far to be with us, and we are lucky to have her in the 413 leading CDH to greater access and opportunity in this region. Find out how Mass General and Cooley have created a partnership that benefits all of us in Western MA and beyond.
Monday, March 6, 202303/06/2023
Home
3/6/23: Senator Jo Comerford on her bills this legislative session, including Death with Dignity; Northampton Mayor G.L. Sciarra on Eric Suher’s licenses and the future of downtown Northampton; WNEU law professor emeritus Bruce Miller on the Supreme Court killing Biden’s student debt relief program; Megan Zinn and author Jennifer Rosner on Jennifer’s new historical novel “Once We Were Home,” about kids during WWII being ripped from their families and raised by others.
Saturday, March 4, 202303/04/2023
The Hustler Files Ep 5
MEL & MEREDITH SPRINGFIELD, 2ND CHANCE HEROES
Not all heroes wear capes, masks and carry a shield, but at Meredith Springfield, a Ludlow Massachusetts manufacturing facility for Fortune 100 companies, Owner Mel O’Leary has spent twenty years as a 2nd chance employer! In his relationship with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, Mel has not only employed a few hundred formerly incarcerated but approximately one-third of those 2nd chance hires have continued to stay on with him and some have even moved into management positions. Joining Mel in the conversation is Luis, an ex-offender for drug conspiracy, who entered Federal prison at the age of 18 and stayed incarcerated for six years. As with all the Meredith Springfield 2nd chance hires, Luis was given the opportunity to work for Mel while finishing up his sentence in the Hampden re-entry program. Listen in to find out how Mel’s 2nd chance hiring has not been in vain.
Friday, March 3, 202303/03/2023
Lucky 13
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
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?
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??
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
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
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.
