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Friday, May 17, 201905/17/2019

Don’t Push The Button To Listen To This Podcast While Driving

In Bill Newman

5/17: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on the ROE bill, the proposed distracted driver legislation and the Healthy Youth Act (sex ed in schools) ; then on ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis — Florence Pie Bar Poets Floyd Cheung and Jen Blackburn.

Thursday, May 16, 201905/16/2019

The Encampment

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5/16: time to open the (Easthampton) River Valley Market! with GM Rochelle Prunty and Board member Jade Barker; the Encampment for Citizenship with Amy Ben-Ezra, Beth Mattison, Evelin Aquino, Petua Mukimba, and Ibrahim Ali; then, Rev Peter Ives with Spectrum in Motion founder and Director Olivia llano-Davis.

Wednesday, May 15, 201905/15/2019

The Bike Commute Breakfast!

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5/15: The BIG Bike Breakfast with Mayor David Narkewicz and other bicycle enthusiasts.

Wednesday, May 15, 201905/15/2019

The Firefighters and The Photographer

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5/14: The new photo-essay/interview book on the Northampton Fire Dept. –we speak with the photographer Peter Norman, Deputy Chief Tim McQueston, and Assistant Chief Jon Davine; then, environmentalist Dr. Mary Booth on the biomass mess
that the Baker administration seeks to impose on Massachusetts—and what you can do to stop it; and then Talking Baseball with Duke Goldman and nationally known Northampton-based prolific sports and baseball writer Jim Kaplan.

Monday, May 13, 201905/13/2019

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 13 2019

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Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on the candidates, the primaries, the electoral college and the upcoming critical Supreme Court decisions; Bruce Watson on “Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age.”

Monday, May 13, 201905/13/2019

Ingrid Bredenberg & Jessi Kirley on WMass Business Show

In The Western Mass. Business Show

On Saturday, May 18, 11am, and Sunday, May 19, 8pm hear Ira
speak with INGRID BREDENBERG, Strategic Leadership Coach, and JESSI KIRLEY, co-leader of the Family Business Center. They discuss the strategic planning the FBC is doing, as they enter their 2nd quarter century, and leadership transition. It includes a Leadership Summit, on June 4th, where many business leaders will put their heads together, to determine what trends and forces, good and bad, will affect us all; and how to innovate and adapt to them. There will be a lot of wisdom present. Hear how Ingrid is leading this process, and how collected data feeds their strategic plan, that feeds the action plan. More at fambizpv.com/leadershipsummit

Friday, May 10, 201905/10/2019

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 10 2019

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In memoriam: Dan Clawson. Barbara Madeloni, Max Page, Salman Hameed and remember Dan Clawson and then do what Dan would want—share their immediate plans for social justice organizing. (Salman also discusses Hampshire College, black holes, and event horizons.) Also, on Donnabelle Casis’ Art Beat, a preview of Florence Arts Night Out.

Thursday, May 9, 201905/09/2019

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 9 2019

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Attorney Rachel Weber, the attorney who defeated the injunction sought to shut down the Not Backing Down Palestine forum at UMass. last weekend; Jim Levy on the SOS/NEF plant sale at Smith Voc.—heads up—Mother’s Day is coming!! Rev. Peter Ives and Lindsay Koshgarian, Ex. Dir. of the Northampton-based National Priorities Project.

Thursday, May 9, 201905/09/2019

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 8 2019

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From Treehouse-Terry Homstead and Maryellen Santiago– and from Enchanted Circle Theatre- Tony Jones—storytelling and moving stories you want to hear; Jaime Michaels, founder and Executive Director of Out for Reel.

Thursday, May 9, 201905/09/2019

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 7 2019

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Brain Jay Jones, author of “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination;” then, come celebrate The Literacy Project –this is a really moving segment with Exec. Dir. Judith Roberts and student Joseph Lubold; and Roger Gottlieb, his newest book—he has 20 others—is “Morality and the Environmental Crisis.”

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