Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, August 10, 201908/10/2019
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.10.19
The panel, Nathaniel Waring and Kate Albright-Hanna, on climate collapse – not change – Biden’s continuing gaffes and automation. Also, Nathaniel announces that the Pioneer Valley Democratic Socialists of America has a Candidate’s Night on Aug. 14 at 6:30 pm at the Green Computing Center, 100 Bigelow St., Holyoke. The candidates are Rachel Maiore (Ward 7, Northampton); Alex Jarrett (Ward 5, Northampton); Victor Davila (Ward 6, Springfield); and Johnnie McKnight (At Large, Springfield).
Friday, August 9, 201908/09/2019
A Shooting Star Is Not A Star
In Bill Newman
8/9: Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on shooting stars and massive protests; Max Page (MTA Veep) and Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts Executive Director, Zac Bears on the legislature’s report card; then and Kathy Lynch, Cassandra Holden of Laudable Productions & Linda Tardif of the Shea describe this amazing immersive experience you can have.
Thursday, August 8, 201908/08/2019
The Problem with Plastic
In Bill Newman
8/8: How our use of plastic is destroying the oceans and other waterways and much of life on earth. The crisis is real; the tipping point is now. We speak with Will McCallum, author of “How to Give Up Plastic.”
Then, Rabbi Justin David on the rise of anti-Semitism in America.
Wednesday, August 7, 201908/07/2019
Newman Gets Fact-Checked by Editor-in-Chief
In Bill Newman
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
In Bill Newman
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?
In Bill Newman
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?
In Bill Newman
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
In Bill Newman
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
In Bill Newman
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.
