Friday, July 9, 202107/09/2021

The Afternoon Buz 6.14.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

On the inaugural show, legendary civil-rights attorney Buz Eisenberg interviews Bruce Niemczyk and UMass Amherst African American professor Amilcar Shabazz.

Friday, July 9, 202107/09/2021

What will Main Street Northampton look like in the near future?

In Bill Newman

7/9: Northampton Mayor Davd Narkewicz; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.

Thursday, July 8, 202107/08/2021

What REALLY happened in the Case of Bill Cosby?

In Bill Newman

7/8: Crime and Punishment with attorney John Pucci on the dismissal of charges against Bill Cosby and the bringing of charges against the Trump organization; then, “The Magic City Massacre” (the Tulsa massacre ) with KoFest Artistic Director, Sabrina Hamilton, playwright Deletta Gillespie, and Daryl Davis (he’s the musician and activist who convinces Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the Klan); and then, the Rev. Peter Ives on his personal leap of faith.

Wednesday, July 7, 202107/07/2021

Trans Medicine

In Bill Newman

7/7: stef m. schuster on “Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender;” criminal defense attorney Bonnie Allen
on the nolo contendere plea and probation for her client in a widely publicized local child endangerment case; Natalia Munoz on Puerto Rican statehood –or not.

Tuesday, July 6, 202107/06/2021

The Redistricting of MA begins

In Bill Newman

7/5: State Senator Jo Comerford on the coming redistricting of western Massachusetts; Robert Meeropol, younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, on his mother’s execution and Anne Sebba’s new book, “Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy.”

Saturday, July 3, 202107/03/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 7.3.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week we are joined by our regular guests, Matt Szafranski, Kate Albright-Hanna, and Nathaniel Waring to discuss what is happening in the mayoral race in Holyoke, and what the candidates OCPF (or lack there of) says about their seriousness in the coming election; how the rash of heat related deaths in the states and Canida is connected to a lack of access to social services, and how we can fix that; The climate change movement, and why it’s had trouble gaining traction like similar social justice movements; what we can do as individuals to help lessen the effects of climate change, and what our not doing those things says about our commitment to the cause; the enviornmental cost of cell phones and social media, and the societal and interpersonal costs of social interaction moving online; Some of the lessions we have learned, or have failed to learn, during the pandemic, and what we can do to learn from them in hindsight; what can be done to rehabilitate social media and online life to make it more condusive to human nature; how we are dealing with coming out of a pandemic, and how inertia plays into people being comfortable in their current state; and what the future of the Coronavirus will look like in the US, and what can be done to apply the lessons learned to other viruses.

Saturday, July 3, 202107/03/2021

What’s in Northampton’s DNA?

In The Western Mass. Business Show

7.3.21 Tara Brewster talks with the head of the Downtown Northampton Association Amy Cahillane.

Saturday, July 3, 202107/03/2021

Panorama — Episode 24 — Tami Gouveia, seeking the Democratic party nomination to be Lt. Governor of MA

In Panorama

Originally aired on July 3, 2021. Tami Gouveia talks to Stefan and Dan about her run for the Democratic party…

Friday, July 2, 202107/02/2021

Is Biden about to end student debt?

In Bill Newman

7/2: Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on black holes eating dead stars. Max Page, V.P of the Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n on the state budget. ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jo Hesse.

Thursday, July 1, 202107/01/2021

The Last Hope for The American Experiment

In Bill Newman

7/1: Political Gold with CEO of Represent.US. Josh Silver. Rev. Peter Ives.