Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Thursday, January 16, 202001/16/2020

Why Joe Kennedy Wants To Be Your Senator Now

In Bill Newman

1/16: Congressman Joe Kennedy on his race against Sen. Ed Markey; then Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David (“The Reverend and the Rabbi”), Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov (hosts of “Black in the Valley”) and Jeff Napolitano and Miranda Groux, from the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, — on Martin Luther King and the commemorations in his honor in the Valley.

Wednesday, January 15, 202001/15/2020

Not This Kind of Over-Ride

In Bill Newman

1/15: Elizabeth Matos, Exec. Dir. of Prisoners’ Legal Services -the fight today in the legislature; Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz on the proposed Prop 2 ½ override; Natalia Munoz on the earthquakes in Puerto Rico.

Tuesday, January 14, 202001/14/2020

We’re Not Sports Talk Radio (We Thought)

In Bill Newman

1/14: What’s next for the Red Sox and manager Alex Cora given the scandal he was in the middle of – we’re “Talkin’ Baseball” with SABR-star Duke Goldman and former minor leaguer and Atlanta Braves batboy Buz Eisenberg.

Tuesday, January 14, 202001/14/2020

Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor-Why Couples Fight About Money

In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor

Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor–Why do couples fight about money?

Monday, January 13, 202001/13/2020

The Women’s March Returns!

In Bill Newman

1/13: Rachel Maiore, Director the Western Massachusetts Women’s March; Black in the Valley with segment hosts Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks and Horace Small, founder and Executive Director, Union of Minority Neighborhoods.

Saturday, January 11, 202001/11/2020

Western Mass Business Show 1.11.20

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Tune in Saturday, January 11 @ 11 am, and Sunday, January 12 @ 8 pm
to hear Ira speak with Marc Ross & William Troutt of Harvest Enterprises, an Arizona based cannabis cultivation and retail company that is entering the Western Mass market. They discuss the impact on local cannabis companies, when larger players arrive, and what mom and pop operations might do in response; observations about the birth of this new legal industry; what it means that it’s still federally illegal; if there is a saturation point; the effect of the still existing grey market; and some research into the medical benefits.

Friday, January 10, 202001/10/2020

Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor–The Psychology of Shopping

In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor

Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor–A look at the psychology of shopping

Saturday, January 4, 202001/04/2020

Vaya Con Muñoz 1.4.20

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Saturday, January 4, 202001/04/2020

Western Mass Business Show 1.4.20

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Tune in Saturday, January 4 @ 11 am, and Sunday, January 5 @ 8 pm to hear Ira speak with DEE DICE of Valley Community Development about her modus operandi of finding a need and filling it, whether it was her buying
a ton of cross-country skis to sell to her fellow college students, paying for college by growing and selling sprouts (when that was a new thing), to running her growing fruit and produce market. Now she helps others do all that, providing technical training and assistance to those who want to start or modify their business; whether it’s how to stay technologically current, know when and how to pivot, build a team, think creatively, and listen intently. You’ll learn much from this well-respected business guide

Friday, January 3, 202001/03/2020

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

In Bill Newman

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