Podcasts
Podcasts
Thursday, August 6, 202008/06/2020
How Much Stock Should We Put In The Polls?
In Bill Newman
8/6: Political Gold with CEO of Represent.US, Josh Silver, on the election, polls, fundraising, battleground states, political ads, and today’s news — another Inspector General at the State Dept. bites the dust; the Reverend and the Rabbi with Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on the importance of statues–those we love and those that should be taken down.
Wednesday, August 5, 202008/05/2020
“Stop The Press!” And The Press Stops.
In Bill Newman
8/5: The Daily Hampshire Gazette’s editor-in-chief Brooke Hauser and reporter Greta Jochem on the demise of the press and the loss of jobs at the paper, the intense controversy over use of Chartpak property and swimming in Leeds, and reporting on school reopenings; also Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
Tuesday, August 4, 202008/04/2020
The Hope For An End To Nuclear Weapons
In Bill Newman
8/4: On this week, 75 years after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we speak with Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, co-founders of Northampton-based NuclearBan.US and local physician Ira Helfand, former President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, now Co-Chair of PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee. Also, criminal defense and civil rights attorney Luke Ryan explains what the legislative fight over qualified immunity is –and isn’t– all about.
Monday, August 3, 202008/03/2020
No End In Sight To The Session
In Bill Newman
8/3: State Senator Jo Comerford on the police reform bill, the budget, and the legislative session; Institute for Policy Studies’ Chuck Collins on billionaires with billions in private foundations and what that concentration of wealth means for democracy.
Saturday, August 1, 202008/01/2020
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.1.20
This week’s panel of political commentators, Nathaniel Waring, Matt Szafranski and Kate Albright-Hanna, on the school reopening and how another plan is needed; the who fired who? legal battle at the Holyoke Soldiers Home; federal agents in soldier uniforms arresting and whisking away BLM protesters in unmarked vehicles; the nation’s economy continues to spiral down.
Friday, July 31, 202007/31/2020
Six Feet Apart, All Together
In Bill Newman
7/31: Mass. Teachers Ass’n VP Max Page on schools reopening or not; Pook’s Pedlars, Judith Souweine, Margaret Mastrangelo and Ted Diamond, on their 100 miles bike ride in the valley tomorrow to raise money for Dana Farber to combat cancer—the Reimagined Pan-Mass Challenge; Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis and Double Edge Theatre’s Carlos Uriona and Cariel Klein
Thursday, July 30, 202007/30/2020
Remembering an American Hero
In Bill Newman
7/30: We remember John Lewis; also, Jennifer Levitz, Massachusetts-based Wall Street Journal investigative reporter and co-author of “Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit, and the Making of the College Admissions Scandal.”
Wednesday, July 29, 202007/29/2020
Baseball is back…but for how long?
In Bill Newman
7/29: Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke— Northampton-based baseball historian Duke Goldman– on the season, the pandemic, and the rule changes; then Natalia Munoz, News Director of Holyoke Media, on the new Receiver/Superintendent of the Holyoke Public Schools and five years of receivership.
Tuesday, July 28, 202007/28/2020
Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor–Teaching Kids About Money
In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor
The Money Doctor, Dr. Frances Rahaim of Hug Your Student Debt, talks about teaching kids about money
Tuesday, July 28, 202007/28/2020
The Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
In Bill Newman
7/28: Nicholson Baker, author of “Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act;” then, Peter Sterling, Amherst-based Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, whose new book is “What is Health?,” on , among other things, compassion and Trump.
