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Saturday, November 6, 202111/06/2021

THE Cambridge Connection Ep 9

In The Cambridge Connection

It’s Ladies Week! Arianne and Tinamarie dig in on women and the importance of financial literacy, and Donna Haghighat, the CEO of the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts stops by to talk about some of the financial challenges women are facing in the local community, the many programs and grants the Women’s Fund offers to local non-profits, and their new economic security hub.

Friday, November 5, 202111/05/2021

Celebrating Indigenous Art

In Bill Newman

11/5: MTA VP Max Page, Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jason Montgomery.

Thursday, November 4, 202111/04/2021

How to save baseball

In Bill Newman

11/4: Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke–Duke Goldman; then, Tim Mak, author of “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA;” and then, Rev. Michael McSherry and Rabbi Justin David.

Wednesday, November 3, 202111/03/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 11.2.21- Majestic Theatre’s Don’t Dress for Dinner and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

In The Afternoon Buzz

We start the show with Playbill with Jackie Walsh and her guests Elizabeth Pietrangelo  New York City-based actor. Plays Suzette;…

Wednesday, November 3, 202111/03/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 11.1.21- Rachel Cleetus from Climate & Energy Program and Professor Rick Wolff

In The Afternoon Buzz

Buz talks to Rachel Cleetus, policy director and lead economist, Climate & Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, USA and…

Wednesday, November 3, 202111/03/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 10.29.21 Author Karen Vorbeck Williams and The Witch of Northampton

In The Afternoon Buzz

Author Karen Vorbeck Williams celebrates Halloween by sharing the story of The Witch of Northampton, Mary Bliss Parsons.  Buz and…

Wednesday, November 3, 202111/03/2021

Breaking Down The Ballot Box

In Bill Newman

11/3: The election Fishwrap with Natalia Munoz; then NPR-Northampton Poetry Radio — with segment host, Rich Michelson, and poets Annie Woodhall, Bill O’Connell and Trish Crapo. And then, Sex Matters with Jane Fleshman–do we have a quiz for you

Tuesday, November 2, 202111/02/2021

So long, Marianne

In Bill Newman

11/2: John Pucci on the trial, verdict, and potential sentences in the Varsity Blues prosecutions; then Judy Scott, author of “Leonard [Leonard Cohen], Marianne [that Marianne!],and Me: Magical Summers on Hydra.”

Monday, November 1, 202111/01/2021

The Last Day of Campaigning with the Northampton Council Candidates

In Bill Newman

11/1: Northampton Ward 4 City Council candidates, Jesse Hassinger and Garrick Perry on the Northampton Arts Council’s decision to cancel the biennial art exhibit; Ward Three City Council candidate David Kris on his reasons for running and differences with his opponent; NPR–Northampton Poetry Radio–with segment host, erstwhile poet laureate Rich Michelson, and Lanette Sweeney–her new collection is titled “What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir About Losing a Child to Addiction” — her virtual reading will be this Thursday at the Odyssey.

Saturday, October 30, 202110/30/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 10.30.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week on the show Nathaniel Waring fills in for Natalia again, and is joined by Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, and Matt Szafranski to discuss the environment, and what a recent study said about what we can expect in terms of a global temperature increase; the likelihood of space travel being used to evacuate people in the face of climate change, and how silly it is to think that another planet would be easier to terraform than Earth would be to save; the Mayoral election in Holyoke, and other elections around the valley; Buffalo’s mayoral race between Byron Brown and India Walton, and what sore loser laws have to do with it; the recent rash of progressive attorney general, and the difference between Chesa Boudin and Larry Krasner, the DA of philadelphia; and how mass incarceration is a tool of white supremacy to disenfranchise black and brown people.

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