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Thursday, January 13, 202201/13/2022

The Afternoon Buzz 1.11.2022 – Professor Ramzi Kassem & No More Guantanamos

In The Afternoon Buzz

Professor Ramzi Kassem will discuss Guantanamo on this 20th anniversary of that dreadful prison camp. Nancy Talanian, Bruce Miller, and Sherrill Hogen of No More
Guantanamos

Thursday, January 13, 202201/13/2022

20 Years of GTMO & Anti-Semitism in the Valley

In Bill Newman

1/12: Rabbis Justin David and Debra Kolodny on anti-Semitism in Northampton; Guantanamo detainee attorney Buz Eisenberg and constitutional law professor Bruce Miller on who is still locked up at GTMO and why.

Wednesday, January 12, 202201/12/2022

Mayor’s Monday with Nicole & Natalia Munoz on Puerto Rico

In Bill Newman

1/12: Mayor Nicole LaChapelle discusses the collaborative COVID-19 testing site in Easthampton and public records transparency. Natalia Munoz discusses the current  struggles of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, corruption, economic  collapse, and “la junta.”

Wednesday, January 12, 202201/12/2022

Remembering Ed McColgan

In Bill Newman

1/11: Bill O’Riordan on the passing of Ed McColgan; Kerri Maher on “The Paris Bookseller” (Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare and Company);Duke Goldman on the first woman manager in MiLB.

Tuesday, January 11, 202201/11/2022

The Afternoon Buzz 1.10.22 – Attorney for GTMO detainees Marc Falkoff & Cabin Fever Roundtable w Megan and Joanna Ryan

In The Afternoon Buzz

 Law Professor and attorney for GTMO detainees Marc Falkoff discusses his representation and the 20th Anniversary of that prison camp.…

Tuesday, January 11, 202201/11/2022

The Afternoon Buzz 1.7.22 – Covid Talk with Dr. Bayuk and Attorney Joe Bernard on drugged driving laws

In The Afternoon Buzz

Immunologist and Covid expert Dr. Jonathan Bayuk brings us up to date on the virus in this region. Attorney Joe…

Tuesday, January 11, 202201/11/2022

The Afternoon Buzz 1.6.22 – Science and Sustainability with Brian Adams and Bruce Miller on Biden’s Vaccine mandates

In The Afternoon Buzz

Science and Sustainability Correspondent Brian Adams and The Nature Conservancy’s Deb Markowitz discuss climate change.   Law Professor Bruce Miller discusses…

Monday, January 10, 202201/10/2022

Democracy? and Community!

In Bill Newman

1/10: Political Gold with Josh Silver, Executive Chairman of Represent Us, on our sleepwalking through what could be the end of the democracy. Then, Black in the Valley with special guest. Dr. Barbara Headley, Senior Pastor at Zion Community Baptist Church and Executive Director of ACTS, Action Centered Tutoring Services, on the beloved community,  and education during the pandemic.

Saturday, January 8, 202201/08/2022

The Local Hero Folks

In The Western Mass. Business Show

1.8.22 Tara Brewster talks with Phil Korman, Executive Director, of CISA-Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture

Saturday, January 8, 202201/08/2022

Vaya Con Muñoz 1.8.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week on the show we are joined by Nathaniel Waring, Kate Albright-Hanna, and Matt Szafranski in discussing Coid, and how both Kate and Nathaniel’s families have gotten Covid in the last few weeks; The new Covid variant(s) and how our elected officials are responding to them; what Covid means for our children, and public school; Eric Lesser’s announcement that he’s running for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and what it will mean both for western mass, as well as the whole of the commonwealth; President Biden’s January 6th memorial speech, and what we feel it’s strengths and weaknesses were; Kate’s plan to move to Costa Rica to escape America’s problems; and how the Democrats are looking at politics in 2022 and beyond, and how it indicates a lack of understanding of the world we are moving into.

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