Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, June 1, 201906/01/2019
Western Mass Business Show 6.1.19
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Tune in to the next installment of the Western Mass. Business Show June 8, when the guest will be Kristin Leutz, director of Valley Venture Mentors. BusinessWest Editor George O’Brien will lead a broad-ranging discussion that will touch on everything from efforts to build the region’s entrepreneurship ecosystem to the upcoming and much-anticipated Innovation Fest. You won’t want to miss this insightful look into the region’s startup community and VVM’s many initiatives to promote and inspire entrepreneurship and innovation.
Friday, May 31, 201905/31/2019
$chool’$ Out
In Bill Newman
5/31: Semi-special guest Bill Newman fishwraps on the Buz Eisenberg Show; MTA Veep Max Page on the ongoing education budget battle on Beacon Hill; Sci-Tech Café host, MHC physics professor Kerstin Nordstrom, speaks with and UMass professor of polymer science, Todd Emerick, on polymers and plastics and the environment; this weekend—it’s Florence Arts Night Out—a preview with ArtBeat segment host Donnabelle Casis and filmmaker Luke Jaeger.
Thursday, May 30, 201905/30/2019
Not Charged with A Crime. Still Sent To Jail.
In Bill Newman
5/30: Lois Ahrens, Founding Director of the Northampton-based Real Cost of Prison Project; Reverends Peter Ives and Liza Knapp on welcoming and affirming churches and the split with fundamentalists and evangelicals.
Wednesday, May 29, 201905/29/2019
The Happy Couple
In Bill Newman
5/29: Climb higher!—The Treehouse Community needs us all –with COO Beth Spong; then, Sex Matters a/k/a SEX MATTERS !! with the show’s resident sexologist Dr. Jane Fleishman.
Tuesday, May 28, 201905/28/2019
Equality Reimagined
In Bill Newman
5/28: Martin Schoenhals on “ Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia—Equality Reimagined;” Amherst College Professor of Geology and co-director of Amherst College’s Beneski Museum of Natural History on dinosaurs in our Valley and their footprints that have come home; then, Joseph Ricker , Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra maestro, and Kelly Silliman, Program Director, Northampton Center for the Arts.
Tuesday, May 28, 201905/28/2019
Western Mass Business Show 5.25.19
In The Western Mass. Business Show
On Saturday, May 25, 11am, and Sunday, May 26,
8pm hear Ira speak with AJ BRESCIANO, VP and Commercial Loan officer at Greenfield Savings Bank. They discuss such things as best practices of how a business owner and a bank should relate; what it means to be a local mutual bank; how community building is key to how GSB distinguishes itself; how to help a lender see that your business is creditworthy; and how he has a personal understanding of family business, have grown up in one, which he later operated, in Greenfield.
Friday, May 24, 201905/24/2019
To Promise and To Cherish
In Bill Newman
5/24: Where are the bodies buried? Or not? MTA Veep Max Page on UMass’s significant contribution to composting human remains and the dearth, if not the demise, of needed funding for the University in the state senate’s just-passed budget;
Western Mass. author Marianne Praeger-Simon on “Dancing with Merce Cunningham” – and a preview of this weekend’s events at 33 Hawley Street; ArtBeat host Donnabelle Casis’s special guest is Diana Rodriguez, Assistant Director of Holyoke-based Artesana.
Thursday, May 23, 201905/23/2019
Ani DiFranco Tears Down Walls
In Bill Newman
5/23: On our “Reverend and the Rabbi “ segment, Rev. Peter Ives, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Professor Carlie Tartakov, historian and Sojourner Truth Committee board member Wendy Sinton,
and scholarship award- winner Wesley Days talk about Sojourner Truth and her importance to Northampton when she lived her and now — and this coming Sunday’s 18th celebration of the Sojourner Truth statue; also, Grammy Award-winning artist and feminist icon Ani DiFranco on her personal story “No Walls and the Recurring Dream.”
Wednesday, May 22, 201905/22/2019
New Hope In Mumia’s Fight For Freedom
In Bill Newman
5/22: Noelle Hanrahan, founder and producer of Prison Radio and publisher of Mumia Abu Jamal;
Javier Luengo-Garrido, Coordinator of the ACLU of Massachusetts Immigrant Protection Project of Western Massachusetts.
