Wednesday, August 7, 201908/07/2019

Newman Gets Fact-Checked by Editor-in-Chief

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8/7: Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, on coverage and columns, what’s in, what’s out, and why. Then, Michael Kusek, publisher and editor-in chief, of the new quarterly, Different Leaf, a journal of cannabis culture.

Tuesday, August 6, 201908/06/2019

Here Comes The Sunrise Movement

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8.6.19 The Sunrise Movement in Western Massachusetts with movement leaders from ARHS Allison Brau and See-Ho Lee and former gubernatorial candidate and Democratic activist Bob Massie; Wendy Sawyer, from the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative on PPI’s new study on women being freed from prison — the numbers and information is astounding.

Monday, August 5, 201908/05/2019

Is This Who We Are Now?

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8/5: State Senator Jo Comerford on the recent gun violence; Black in the Valley with special guest Anika Lopes.

Saturday, August 3, 201908/03/2019

Western Mass Business Show 8.3.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

On Saturday, August 3rd, 11am, & Sunday, August 4th, at 8pm hear Ira speak with SUE MERRITT of LENOX FIT about how she was just chosen as business woman of the year by the Massachusetts Small Business Administration, how she’s built a clean and modern health club that still has a local community feel, what keeps people coming to exercise, how she shows her staff that she cares, modern etiquette in the gym environment, serving the needs of both year-round and summer residents, and how she gives back, after surviving serious illness. Listen in!

Friday, August 2, 201908/02/2019

A Convict or an Addict?

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8/2: Section 35: Massachusetts Prisoners Legal Services attorney Bonnie Tenneriello on committing people who have committed no crime to jail for treatment; Northampton Association of School Employees President Sadie Cora on yesterday’s contract agreement with the City; MTA Veep Max Page on the Massachusetts legislature’s action and inaction on education; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.

Thursday, August 1, 201908/01/2019

Monte & A Constitutional Quiz Crisis

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8/1:  The mess we’re in—take the quiz (this is fun!) along with Monte and Judges Cynthia and Sanford Levinson, co-authors of “Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that

Affect Us Today;”  then, Rev. Peter Ives and Pastor Laura Dalton on Northampton’s First Churches (plural, one church).

Wednesday, July 31, 201907/31/2019

This Is Your Brain on Sex

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7/31: First “How Dinosaurs Go to School” the theatrical adaptation of Jane Yolen’s fabulous kids book —G rated—with the always wonderful Paint Box Theater players and director; then, G-string rated “Sex Matters” with Dr. Jane Fleishman –what your brain is doing while you are canoodling.

Tuesday, July 30, 201907/30/2019

Lessons of Humanity

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7/30: Lessons of Humanity with amazing musician Samite, originally from Uganda, coming to perform in Amherst; “The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few” with Ted Howard, cofounder and president of the Democracy Collaborative.

Monday, July 29, 201907/29/2019

A Movement and Some Movies

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7/29: Cool Films with Larry Hott and Billy Wimsatt, Movement Voter Project founder and Executive Director.

Saturday, July 27, 201907/27/2019

Western Mass Business Show 7.27.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

7.27.19 George O’Brien from Business West Magazine guest hosts and talks with Tessa Murphy-Romboletti – Executive Director, EforAll Holyoke