Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, June 16, 202106/16/2021

The Police Protest in Downtown Northampton

In Bill Newman

6/16: Arnie Levinson on the O’Connell apparently longstanding plan development’s plan to demolish St. John Cantius. Vaya con Munoz.

Tuesday, June 15, 202106/15/2021

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This

In Bill Newman

6/15: Becky Lee –a remembrance of musician David Kaynor. The Comedy Quiz on Star Wars.

Monday, June 14, 202106/14/2021

Bloomsday & Juneteenth

In Bill Newman

6/14: Bloomsday with Judith Roberts and Joe Lubold from the Literacy Project; Black in the Valley with guests Amilcar Shabazz, Demetria Shabazz, and Anika Lopes on Juneteenth.

Saturday, June 12, 202106/12/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 6.12.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week Natalia is joined by our regular pannellists Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring to discuss Juneteenth, and how Massachusetts will be officially observing the holiday this year; Springfield police commissioner Clapproodt’s issues with racism, and why a group of springfield seniors have called for her resignation; why a recent judge’s decision to uphold the springfield city council’s decision to go back to a police commision, rather than a single commissioner , complicates the issue; The American Rescue Plan, and where the money that Springfield got from it is going to go; the recent appointment of the former head of the election commission for springfield Gladys Oyola-Lopez, and how Mayor Sarno made the process more complicated with his nomination; whether Democrats are experiencing burnout after the 2020 election, and what that will mean for the 2022 midterms; what redistricting will mean following the 2020 cencus, and what the gerrymandering will mean forfuture elections; Joe Manchin’s reluctance to end the fillibuster and support the For The People Act, and what can be done to influence him between now and 2022; how immigration policy and the concept of unskilled labor intersect, and what can be done to both make our immigration polcies more fair while also making wages more fair; why immigration is fundementally a part of the American experiment, and why it’s important for America in 2021 and beyond

Saturday, June 12, 202106/12/2021

The Battle of The Business Hosts

In The Western Mass. Business Show

6.12.21 Tara Brewster welcomes back Ira Bryck, former host of the Western Mass Business Show, and gives him the business about business in The Valley.

Friday, June 11, 202106/11/2021

The Bill Newman Show June 11th 2021

In Bill Newman

Thursday, June 10, 202106/10/2021

American Mythmaking

In Bill Newman

6/10: “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of An American Myth” with co-author Chris Tomlinson; Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Peter Ives.

Wednesday, June 9, 202106/09/2021

Creating a Buz

In Bill Newman

6/9: Ben Downing, candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor; Buz Eisenberg on his new show on WHMP; Natalia Munoz on police reform efforts in the Valley.

Tuesday, June 8, 202106/08/2021

How ’bout them Yankees?

In Bill Newman

6/8: Elinor Cleghorn, author of “Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World;” Talkin Baseball with the Duke–Duke Goldman.

Monday, June 7, 202106/07/2021

Old School isn’t Cool

In Bill Newman

6/7: State Senator Jo Comerford and Mass. Teachers Ass’n VP Max Page on the need for new schools across the Commonwealth (and how they’ll be paid for); Main Street for All with Lilly Lombard, Jesse Hassinger, and Benjamin Weil.

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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.