Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, January 11, 201901/11/2019

The future of education and taxes in Massachusetts. Plus a giant inflatable whale.

In Bill Newman

1/11: State Senator from the Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester District, Jo Comerford, and Mass. Teachers Ass’n Vice President, Max Page, on the Senator’s proposed education and tax legislation; Annabelle Casis, Art Beat segment host, on the enormous inflatable whale in downtown Northampton–TONIGHT.

Thursday, January 10, 201901/10/2019

Bill Newman Show with: Margaret Sawyer; WHMP roundtable on gov’t shutdown and Elizabeth Warren

In Bill Newman

1/10: Rev. Margaret Sawyer, Lead Organizer at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, on the effort to free Eduardo Samaniego from ICE custody; a roundtable of
WHMP’s (and The River’s) Joan Holliday, Bob Flaherty and Bill Newman on the government shutdown and Newman’s column in Saturday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette about Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy.

Thursday, January 10, 201901/10/2019

Bill Newman Show with Natalia Munoz; Megan Kludt; Julie Lichtenberg and Mark Guglielmo

In Bill Newman

1/9: Natalia Munoz on the Northampton police controversy; Northampton-based immigration law specialist Megan Kludt on President Trump’s speech; Julie Lichtenberg, founder and Artistic Director of the Performance Project, on the upcoming amazing musical performance at the Parlor Room; photographer Mark Guglielmo on his exhibit on Cuba at Deerfield Academy.

Thursday, January 10, 201901/10/2019

Bill Newman Show with Michael Klare; Ibrahim Ali

In Bill Newman

1/8: Long-time Director of the Five College Program on Peace and World Security Studies, Michael Klare, on today’s announcement about U.S. troops in Syria; Ibrahim Ali on food deserts in western Massachusetts.

Monday, January 7, 201901/07/2019

State Sen. Jo Comerford; filmmaker Syl Shread; Black in the Valley

In Bill Newman

1/7: Hampshire, Franklin & Worcester district state senator Jo Comerford; NHS filmmaker Syl Shread –“Boys Like Us”—coming to the Forbes; Garden the Community with Ibrahim Ali and Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks.

Saturday, January 5, 201901/05/2019

The Western Mass Business Show 1.5.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

1.5.19 Hear guest host George O’Brien speak with Kristin Carlson, President of Peerless Precision Inc. in Westfield MA; a precision manufacturing job shop offering tolerances of .0001″, Kristin is also President of the Western Mass Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association.

Saturday, January 5, 201901/05/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 1.5.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

My neighbor died in a fire. I didn’t know him but miss seeing him. Gwendolyn Brooks said, “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond” and it is true.
Kate Albright-Hanna and Nathaniel Waring, on sexism and sexual harassment in the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns, in Sen. Kamala Harris’s office when she was a DA; and women as ambitious people — is that still frowned upon by mainstream media and society?

Governor Baker

Friday, January 4, 201901/04/2019

Is Baker Going To Make Good on The Foundation Budget Changes?

In Bill Newman

1/4: Max Page, UMass prof. and V.P. of the Massachusetts Teacher’s Ass’n.; Hampshire College professor & astronomer Salman Hameed; Arts Beat: Bodies in Motion at the Northampton Arts Trust.

Thursday, January 3, 201901/03/2019

Who Is More Progressive When It Comes To Parole: MA or TX?

In Bill Newman

1/3/19: Jorge Renaud , Senior Policy Analyst, Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative; Rev Peter Ives and Andrew Moorehouse, Exec. Dir of the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

Wednesday, January 2, 201901/02/2019

Ryan O’Donnell Will Not Seek Re-Election

In Bill Newman

1/2: Northampton City Council President Ryan O’Donnell on his decision, announced today, to not seek a fourth term.

Recent Headlines

7 hours ago in National

Melania Trump and Usha Vance are making an early holiday visit with North Carolina military families

Melania Trump and Usha Vance took their first trip together, spending time in North Carolina on Wednesday with service members and their families to show appreciation for their service and sacrifice as the holidays approach.

1 day ago in National

Here’s what’s in the opioid settlement against OxyContin maker Purdue and the Sackler family

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, in a new deal formally approved by a federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.

1 day ago in Entertainment, Trending

Labubu and ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ to dazzle at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Here’s what to know

Two things that made massive cultural splashes this year — Labubu and "KPop Demon Hunters" — will fill the sky and streets of New York when the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off this year.

1 day ago in National

House votes overwhelmingly to force release of Epstein files, sending bill to Senate

The House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill Tuesday to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remarkable display of approval for an effort that had struggled for months to overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.

2 days ago in National

Cloudflare outage disrupts ChatGPT, X, other internet services

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructure and other prominent internet services.