Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, September 8, 202109/08/2021

Going Whole Holyoke

In Bill Newman

9/8: Aaron Vega on the race for Mayor of Holyoke and aspirations for his city; Natalia Munoz, News Director of Holyoke Media, joins us.

Tuesday, September 7, 202109/07/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 9.3.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Author Attorney Wendy Sibbison discusses her newly released novel Helen in Trouble, and joins Buz and Bill Newman in a…

Tuesday, September 7, 202109/07/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 9.2.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Executive Director Brian  Boyles of Mass Humanities Dr. Jon Zibbell, Senior Public Health Scientist  of RTI International

Tuesday, September 7, 202109/07/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 9.1.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Law Professor Emeritus Bruce Miller discusses the Supreme Court allowing evictions of millions to resume, blocking the administration from enforcing…

Tuesday, September 7, 202109/07/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 8.31.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Buz shares his thoughts on Afghanistan. Playbill with Jackie Walsh

Tuesday, September 7, 202109/07/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 8.30.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Mehlaqa Samdani is the executive director and founder of Critical Connections. Nan Parati returns.  

Tuesday, September 7, 202109/07/2021

Varsity Blues

In Bill Newman

9/7: “Crime and Punishment” with attorney John Pucci on the Varsity Blues; Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project, on “State of Insecurity: the Cost of Militarization since 9/11”–
$21 Trillion,

Saturday, September 4, 202109/04/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 9.4.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week on Vaya we are joined by our regulars, Tanisha Arena, Kate Albright-Hanna, Dan Torres, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring to discuss the anounced closing of the Coca Cola plant in Northampton, and what it will mean for municipal budgets and the local economy; the rising cost of rent in western Massachusetts, and what can be done to stem the gentrification of our part of the state; The withdraw from Afghanistan, and the roll of the press in both the war and the withdrawl; the recent anti-abortion law that was signed into law in Texas, and what it means for the state of women’s rights in America; and what shows all of us on the panel have been binge watching;

Saturday, September 4, 202109/04/2021

A Trust for all children?

In The Western Mass. Business Show

9.4.21 Tara Brewster talks with Terry Mollner from Stakeholders Capital and Calvert Impact Capital

Friday, September 3, 202109/03/2021

UMass goes Global, the Moons of Mars and a Giant Mantis

In Bill Newman

9/3: MTA Vice-President Max Page on UMass’ newest multi-million- dollar acquisition; Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on the news from Mars; ArtBeat with host, Donnabelle Casis, sculptor Kamil Peters and — from the Florence Civic and Business Association –Andrew Munson.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is sentenced to over 4 years in prison

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs was sentenced Friday to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and "freak-offs."

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Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, expanding what the Trump administration has declared is an "armed conflict" with cartels.

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Trump says US is in ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an "armed conflict" with them, according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, following recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is set to be sentenced and faces the possibility of years in prison

Sean "Diddy" Combs faces sentencing Friday in a sordid criminal case that could keep him locked up for years.

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Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting "irreversible" cuts to programs important to Democrats.