Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, January 12, 201901/12/2019
Western Mass Business Show 1.12.19
In The Western Mass. Business Show
On Sat, Jan 12 at 11am, and Sun, Jan 13 at 8pm
hear Ira speak with BOBBY ASNAS, whose father and uncle ran STAGE DELI, reputed as the best deli ever. Bobby went on to become a successful commodities trader, but fondly recalls taking cash, as a young boy, and hanging out with customers such as the classic Yankees (the Mick lived upstairs) plus comics like Totie Fields, Buddy Hackett, and Myron Cohen (who once gave young Bobby and his dad a private performance of very blue material). More stories abound, so tune in!
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
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?
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.
