Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, February 26, 202102/26/2021
Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor-Should Student Debt be Forgiven?
In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor
The Money Doctor, Dr. Frances Rahaim of “Hug Your Student Debt” talks about whether the government should forgive student loans and how that might work
Friday, February 26, 202102/26/2021
Holding the Governor accountable for the vaccine rollout
In Bill Newman
2/27: State Representative Mindy Domb on vaccine availability and Governor Baker’s plans; Your State U. with MTA Vice-President Max Page on (lack of)vaccinations for educators and forging ahead with MCAS; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Priya Nadkarni Greene.
Thursday, February 25, 202102/25/2021
Let’s Talk About Sex, Newmie
In Bill Newman
2/26: Monte and Bill and Jane Fleishman talking about talking about sex.
Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David talking about Purim.
Wednesday, February 24, 202102/24/2021
Saving journalism, one columnist at a time
In Bill Newman
2/24: A eulogy for Lawrence Ferlinghetti; a conversation with state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on covid and the governor; an inquiry into the future of the Daily Hampshire Gazette with reporter and Pioneer Valley News Guild activist Dusty Christensen; and opinion on institutional racism in vaccine distribution and consideration of the Smith College employee claiming race discrimination because she is white from Natalia Muñoz.
Tuesday, February 23, 202102/23/2021
Poet Quartet
In Bill Newman
2/23: NPR–Northampton Poetry Radio–with Martin Espada, Victoria Chang, Paul Mariani, and Rich Michelson; Sci-Tech Cafe with MHC physics prof. Kerstin Nordstrom and American University chemistry prof Raychelle Burks on why and how “All My Favorite Science Teachers are Undead.”!!
Monday, February 22, 202102/22/2021
COVID in our prisons
In Bill Newman
2/22: Lois Ahrens, Founding Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, on covid in Massachusetts prisons; Liam Goud and Braxton Brewington, members of the Debt Collective, on the student debt crisis and the upcoming film at Forbes Library, “You Are Not a Loan;” Drs. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks, Carlie Tartakov, and Demetria Shabazz- a special edition of Black in the Valley.
Saturday, February 20, 202102/20/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 2.20.21
This week Natalia is joined by Nathaniel Waring, Kate Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski, and Dan Torres in discussing the so called basket of deplorables comment by Hilary Clinton and how those on the far right are showing themselves to be those deplorables; where the future of the republican party is headed, and whether we are going to see more trump style politics in 2022, 2024, and beyond; where the slide of the republican party towards right extremism leaves moderate republicans like Mitt Romney and the 6 other senators who voted to convict trump; the recent death of radio hate monger Rush Limbaugh and how his rise to prominence both mirrored and also ushered in the rise of extremism within the Republican party; the vaccine rollout, and how problems with the system have plagued Massachusetts’s handling of it; and the recent weather in Texas, and how the deregulation of their electrical grid, combined with some good old fashioned greed, had left thousands of its citizens literally out in the cold;
Friday, February 19, 202102/19/2021
PERSEVERANCE!
In Bill Newman
2/19: Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on Perseverance on Mars and other intelligent life with technology in our galaxy. MTA Vice-President Max Page on Governor Baker and covid; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Pamela Matsuda Dunn.
Thursday, February 18, 202102/18/2021
The standoff with China no one is talking about.
In Bill Newman
2/18: Michael Klare, Hampshire College Professor Emeritus and co-founder of the Commitee for a Sane US-China Policy, on the ongoing dangerous confrontations and potential for war between China and the U.S.; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on the role of religious leaders today in the fight for social justice and against religious intolerance.
