Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Thursday, October 8, 202010/08/2020

An Apology For The Greensboro Massacre

In Bill Newman

10/8: Eric Chester, author of “Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent during WW I;” Dr. Martha Nathan on the apology from the city that was complicit in the Ku Klux Klan’s the murder of her husband; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on Sukkot and sukkah

Wednesday, October 7, 202010/07/2020

Invisible Cities

In Bill Newman

10/7: Roman Mars on his new book “The 99% Invisible City;” Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, on which letters are published and which ones aren’t.

Monday, October 5, 202010/05/2020

Larry David to become newest member of Young@Heart Chorus?

In Bill Newman

10/5: State Senator Jo Comerford; Young@Heart with Bob Cilman, Rosemary Caine and Sonia Nieto.

Saturday, October 3, 202010/03/2020

Western Mass Business Show 10.3.20

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Tune in Saturday, October 3rd at 11 AM to hear Ira speak with JESS KERN, Neuromuscular Therapist. They discuss how fascia is the “organ of communication and consciousness;” how your body remembers; how so many aches can be helped with a tennis ball; why sitting or standing still is so bad; how to make “better” your new normal; how stretching might make it worse; why she goes to where the pain isn’t; why she wants to know from clients what the pain means to them, and what it means to her that she can give a bumblebee a massage; how she’s working, during Covid, and more!

Friday, October 2, 202010/02/2020

Dirty Money

In Bill Newman

10/2: Northampton-based attorney and WNEU law professor Jennifer Taub -her new book is “Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White-Collar Crime;” MTA VP Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jason Montgomery.

Thursday, October 1, 202010/01/2020

The Dangers of The Day After The Election

In Bill Newman

10/1: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on the state of the race for president; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin –his new book is “The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations; Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rev. Averill Elizabeth Blackburn, the new minster of the Florence Congregational Church.

Wednesday, September 30, 202009/30/2020

Breaking Down The Breakdown at The Presidential Debate

In Bill Newman

9/30: We fishwrap the debate; then, Sam Myers, co-editor of “Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves” on climate change and our politics.

Tuesday, September 29, 202009/29/2020

The Coming Eviction Crisis

In Bill Newman

9/29: Forbes Senior Editor, Dan Alexander on his new book, ” White House, Inc., How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into A Business;” Jen Dieringer, Managing Attorney of Community Legal Aid,
and John Hornik, Chair of the Amherst Affordable Housing Trust, on the end of the eviction moratorium–the consequences here in the valley and across the state.

Monday, September 28, 202009/28/2020

Sharks & Supreme Court Nominees

In Bill Newman

9.28.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks about the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Plus a special Black In The Valley with a look at what’s happening in the Amherst School District.

Saturday, September 26, 202009/26/2020

Vaya Con Muñoz 9.26.20

In Vaya Con Muñoz

On this week’s show, our panel, Kata Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring, discuss Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death and the ramifications it has caused; the upcoming debates between Trump and Biden, and if it’s even a good idea to put the two of them in the same room together; Matt’s article in wmasspi.com about the flubbing of the Holyoke Soldiers Home fiasco by the Baker administration; and the life and death of Briana Taylor, and how the lack of accountability for the officers who murdered her is part of the larger problem in policing.

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