Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, March 6, 202103/06/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 3.6.21
This week our panel, Kate Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, and Nathaniel Waring discuss the Springfield City Council’s process to replace Adam Gomez’s vacated council seat, and how the lack of voter buy-in affects the optics; the upcoming mayoral election in Northampton following Mayor Narkewicz’s announcement that he will not run again, and the potential upcoming; Mayor Morse’s acceptance of a job as the Providence town manager, and how the city council plans to manag e the rest of his term; The George Floyd bill that recently passed through the US House of Representatives, and whether a sweeping police reform bill like it will make enough of an effect if there isn’t accountability to it’s provisions; the partisanship in the senate, and whether anything can be done to break through it; address historical revisionism and how it prevents the truth from being told; the lack of violent left wing domestic terrorism when compared to right wing violence, and why white supremacists feel like they can act with impunity; how members of the republican caucus, and former vice president Mike Pence, could ignore the threats on their own lives; and how education – not liberal conspiracies – makes people more liberal, not through indocturnation, but through learning the truth about the world.
Thursday, March 4, 202103/04/2021
The Bed-In: Day Two
In Bill Newman
3/4: Day 2, the final day, of Monte’s “first and only” Bed-In for the Cancer Connection with Kenzie MacDonald and Rose Mroczka from the Amherst College Women Hockey Team; Noel Paul Stookey from Peter Paul and Mary; Jeff Tweedy from Wilco; Rabbi Justin David from Congregation B’nai Israel and Cindy Tarail from the Cancer Connection.
Wednesday, March 3, 202103/03/2021
The Bed-In: Day One
In Bill Newman
3/3: Day 1 of Monte Belmonte’s Bed-In for the Cancer Connection, featuring Monte in bed with The Cancer Connection’s Executive Director Rev. Beverly Herbert, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott and Holyoke Media News Director Natalia Munoz.
Tuesday, March 2, 202103/02/2021
A Springfield cop on trial
In Bill Newman
3/2: Crime and Punishment with attorney John Pucci on prosecuting police; Carey Gillam, author of “The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice.”
Monday, March 1, 202103/01/2021
Holding The Governor accountable for the vaccine rollout
In Bill Newman
3/1: State Senator Jo Comerford on covid-19, vaccines, and the Governor;
Monte Belmonte on his going to bed for the Cancer Connection.
Saturday, February 27, 202102/27/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 2.27.21
This week on our show we are joined by Nathaniel Waring, Kate Albright-Hanna, Dan Torres, and Matt Szafranski, and we discuss the recent inquiry by Justin Hurst into why there are not more minority and woman owned businesses getting contracts with the city, and whether racism – overt of systemic – is playing a part in this lack of representation; Senator Markey’s recent visit to the site of the proposed biomass site in Springfield, and how his visit is a sign of support to Jesse Letterman and others in Springfield who supported his 2020 run; whether so called green energy sources will be able to keep up with a growing energy demand globaly, and where we might find our next source of power; why we are going to Mars now and in the future, and what that means for our species (and our resident martian, Nathaniel); the Northampton middle school pricipal’s recent comments on the confederate flag, and the community support that the hateful reaction from a new facebook page has spurred; the happenings at Smith College involving a former employee who is claiming that being forced to sit through racial sensitivity trainings is racist against her as a white woman; A California city’s entire school comintee retiring over a hot mic incident, and how parents and teachers have found themselves at odds in the pandemic; the horrible job Gov Baker has done with the vaccine rollout, and what it will take for Massachusetts to wake up to his incompetency.
Friday, February 26, 202102/26/2021
Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor-No Need to Overspend at the Holidays
In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor
The Money Doctor, Dr. Frances Rahaim of “Hug Your Student Debt” says there’s no need to overspend at the holidays, and suggests instead, focusing on simple holiday pleasures.
