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Wednesday, October 27, 202110/27/2021

Meet Joshua Garcia-Candidate for Mayor of Holyoke

In Bill Newman

10/27: Joshua Garcia, candidate for Mayor of Holyoke–the election is next Tuesday, and early voting is happening now. Then, Max Page and Madeleine Charney from UMass. Amherst on federal and state funds coming to the campus, climate mitigation and union efforts. Community Forum on Climate Action 10/14/21. Recording here; union bargaining/campaign efforts https://umassmsp.org/campaigns/) from the UMass Carbon Mitigation Task Force with Q & A
https://www.umass.edu/sustainability/sites/default/files/cmp_-_qa_-_webinars_-_cmtf_responses_-_fall_2020.pdf

Tuesday, October 26, 202110/26/2021

Panorama – Episode 39 – Holyoke Mayoral Candidate Joshua Garcia

In Panorama

Originally aired on November 6, 2021. Stefan and Dan talk to Holyoke mayoral candidate Joshua Garcia about the future of…

Tuesday, October 26, 202110/26/2021

Panorama – Episode 39 – Holyoke Mayoral Candidate Mike Sullivan

In Panorama

Originally aired on November 6, 2021. Dan and Stefan talk to Holyoke mayoral candidate Mike Sullivan about the future of…

Tuesday, October 26, 202110/26/2021

The Larry Hott Show!

In Bill Newman

10/26: Larry Hott guest-hosts with guests-Northampton teacher Susan Sullivan-on challenges faced by immigrant children in our schools; bestselling author Leslea Newman on her two new books; Melanie Joy on “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows.”

Monday, October 25, 202110/25/2021

Splitting Greenfield in Half

In Bill Newman

10/25: State Rep. Natalie Blais on redistricting, bills she is sponsoring, and western Mass. ag fairs; Jamila Gore, candidate for Northampton councilor-at large; Black in the Valley with special guest Shafiah M’Balia on the case of Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown.

Saturday, October 23, 202110/23/2021

Bombyx is The Bomb

In The Western Mass. Business Show

10.23.21 Tara Brewster talks with Cassandra Holden and Kyle Homstead of Laudable Productions and the new Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity

Saturday, October 23, 202110/23/2021

THE Cambridge Connection Ep 8

In The Cambridge Connection

Join Gordon, Arianne, and special guest Martin Lynch, Director of Education at Cambridge Credit Counseling. They’ll all be diving into the bombshell news announcement that is completely redefining loan forgiveness for thousands of borrowers, but for a limited time only! And don’t worry, Tinamarie will be back next week!

Saturday, October 23, 202110/23/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 10.23.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week Nathaniel Waring fills in for Natalia, and is joined by Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, and Dan Torres to discuss the recent announcements by Adam Hines and Paul Mark, and what it means for Western Mass; what has happened to a generation that brought us the hippy revolution in the 1960s, and what McGovern has to do with it; the recent death of General Powell, and our reactions to Trump’s statement; how Colin Powell’s death is related to covid, and what we can take away from it; the intersection of labor “shortages” in trucking, strikes popping up around the country, and the negotiations around the 3.5T infrastructure package; what it means to be a Capitalist, and why most of us shouldn’t consider ourselves one; how the science fiction of the last generation is becoming our reality today, and what science fiction authors missed about a huge swath of Americans; and how the housing market collapse could lead to the revolution, and how the reality of that might differ from how we imagine it will go down..

Saturday, October 23, 202110/23/2021

Panorama – Episode 38 – Vote Yes for the Library Kent Faerber and Austin Sarat

In Panorama

Originally aired on October 23, 2021. Stefan and Dan chat with Yes for the Library president Kent Faerber, and Amherst…

Friday, October 22, 202110/22/2021

On The Redistricting

In Bill Newman

10/22: State Representative Mindy Domb on redistricting, covid responses and the upcoming vote on the Amherst library; MTA Vice-President Max Page on the federal scuttling of support for community colleges, battling covid in classrooms, and Brutalism at UMass; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Carlos Mateu, whose show is at the Art for the Soul Gallery.

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