Podcasts

Podcasts

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Wednesday, November 14, 201811/14/2018

Are We ‘Playing With Fire’ Again?

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11/14: Lawrence O’Donnell, the MSNBC host, on “Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics;” Corinne Demas, MHC professor children’s book author—her “The Littlest Matryoshka” is coming to the Eric Carle Museum—a play performed by marionettes with storytelling and music. Then, Al Williams on the Northampton Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running through the weekend.

Monday, November 12, 201811/12/2018

What’s It Like To Be Mayor?

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Saturday, November 10, 201811/10/2018

Vaya Con Muñoz 11.10.18

In Vaya Con Muñoz

The Holyoke Community College Theater Department, in collaboration with Mount Holyoke College, brings “In the Heights” by Lin-Manuel Miranda to the stage for a full-scale production Nov. 8-10, and Nov. 15-17. Show times are 7 p.m. each night with a 2 p.m. matinee today, Saturday, Nov. 10, in HCC’s Leslie Phillips Theater.
Filmmaker Kate Abright-Hanna on pop culture and politics.
La crítica de cine Ariadna Goenaga habla sobre la oleada violenta contra inmigrantes, la massacre de esta semana en California, la preferencia por las armas por encima de las palabras.

Saturday, November 10, 201811/10/2018

Western Mass Business Show 11.10.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

On Sat, Nov 10th @ 11am, and Sun, Nov 10th @ 8pm
hear Ira speak with BRIAN HALEY of BCH ACCOUNT PROS
and find out why, when he does your taxes and accounting, he is focused on learning what you do and why you do it; how he balances automation and the human touch; and how he ensures that he and his clients are a good match, and how that works, so all their growth is word of mouth. Plus, how they developed a new system, to help clients no longer stuff receipts into shoeboxes.

Friday, November 9, 201811/09/2018

Dusting Off The Federalist Papers

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Thursday, November 8, 201811/08/2018

Peanut Butter & Lavery

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Tuesday, November 6, 201811/06/2018

Poets Ease Us Through Election Day

In Bill Newman

11/6: Election Day: Newman quotes Paul Krugman and Jay Gonzalez, Democrat for Governor, calls in; politics continue (national and personal) with poets Rich Michelson, Martin Espada, and Paul Mariani, joined in the photo by our guest Jorge Renaud from the Prison Policy Initiative—Espada, it turns out, is his favorite poet! And then, Cai Emmons, author of “Weather Woman.”

Tuesday, November 6, 201811/06/2018

More On Question 1

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11/5: Ballot Question 1 — on minimum nurse staffing in hospitals with full-time bedside nurse and MNA bargaining rep at Baystate -Franklin, Donna Stern; then, “Thomas Cromwell:A Revolutionary Life” with best-selling author, Anglican Deacon, and Oxford University Professor of the History of the Church, Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch; a very special Black in the Valley.

Saturday, November 3, 201811/03/2018

Western Mass Business Show 11.2.18

On Sat, Nov 3rd @ 11am, and Sun, Nov 4th @ 8pm
hear Ira speak with BILL SULLIVAN & DAVE SWIRK
from Conway Scenic Railroad where you step back to an earlier time, before interstates, when trains were the way to go! Business partners Bill (also of Sullivan Metals, in Holyoke) and Dave (who, as a young lad, wanted to be “an engineer, and also an engineer) tell about running an iconic tourist destination that you don’t find just in any tourist destination.

Saturday, November 3, 201811/03/2018

Vaya Con Muñoz 11.3.18

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Samira Bouina and Hatim El Otmani are among 16 Moroccans leaders from Morocco visiting Western Mass. organizations to learn how we create and foment civic engagement. They are participants in the Professional Fellows Program, which brings emerging leaders from around the world to the to broaden their professional expertise.
Kate Albright-Hanna is a filmmaker and was the video producer for the 2006 Obama presidential campaign. We launch a new segment where politics and pop culture intersect.
Holyoke Mayor Alex B. Morse offered hope at the vigil held this week in Holyoke led the United Congregational Church and the Sons of Zion Synagogue.

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