Podcasts

Podcasts

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Wednesday, March 14, 201803/14/2018

Bill Newman Show 3/14/18 with Ryan O’Donnell, Larry Hott and Natalia Munoz

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Bill Newman talks gun control with Ryan O’Donnell, and the Jewish Film Festival with Larry Hott. WHMP’s Natalia Munoz also makes an appearance.

Wednesday, March 14, 201803/14/2018

Northampton Student Organizers Walkout–Bill Newman Show 3/12

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Bill Newman speaks with an organizer of the student walkout planned at Northampton’s JFK Middle School over gun violence

Friday, March 9, 201803/09/2018

The Valley Letters Project

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3/9: Bills and Letters: Bill Scher from Politico, Bill Dwight, from the Northampton City Council and Bill Newman from WHMP preview the Valley Letters Project with Emily Curro from the Academy of Music; Pam Victor of the Ha Has brings improv to the work place; Donnabelle Casis joins Betsy Stone to tell us about her opening tonight.

Thursday, March 8, 201803/08/2018

The Woman’s Hour

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3/8: On International Women’s Day, Elaine Weiss, author of “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote;” then, The Reverend and the Rabbi with Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin david, and Rev. Chris Carlisle.

Wednesday, March 7, 201803/07/2018

#Yolen 365 (#LeapYolen366)

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3/7: Valley author Jane Yolen, joined by author and her daughter Heidi Stemple, celebrate the publication yesterday of her 365 and 366 books –a novel and a picture book! State Representative Aaron Vega (D.-Holyoke), is joined by Sylvia Galvan, President of the Carlos Vega Fund for Social Justice.

Tuesday, March 6, 201803/06/2018

The Pale Blue Dot In High Definition

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3/6: PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Max Page on UMass President Marty Meehan’s presentation (with no mention of free public higher education or the need for more state support) yesterday to the Massachusetts political powers; Dr. Lisa Mosconi, author of “Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power;” Hampshire College professor and Five College Professor of Astronomy Salman Hameed on life near the very bottom of the ocean and stars near the very beginning of time.

Monday, March 5, 201803/05/2018

Can The House Turn Blue?

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3/5: Emily Martz, Mount Holyoke College, Class of 1994, candidate for Congress in upstate New York, describes running against big money; Our regular “Black in the Valley” segment with special guest Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste and hosts Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov, on the import of the movie Black Panther.

Saturday, March 3, 201803/03/2018

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.3.18

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Filmmaker Larry Hott brings to the conversation Jim Kelly, executive director of the Convenant House for homeless youths in New Orleans. Filmmakers Brent and Craif Renaud made a documentary called “Shelter” about Convenant House. You can watch the documentary here: covenanthousenola.org/shelter-documentary/
He was born female and recently transitioned into being a man. He experiences the world as a man now but also as someone who was a woman. And where before as a Latina she was ignored, now it is his partner, a white woman, who is ignored. Gender, race and ethnicity continue to be a powerful factor, but from a different view.
Maria Contreras-Sweet, the former administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2014 to 2017 under President Obama, just pruchased the Weinstein Company. Tee hee!

Saturday, March 3, 201803/03/2018

Western Mass Business Show 3.3.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

3.3.18 Ira speak with LISA TOTZ of LT Consulting, who uses her talents as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and engineer to poke around inside of companies, to test the functionality of its processes and help the company improve productivity and satisfaction, reduce waste and redundancy, and better use the systems which they bought, but don’t take advantage of. Her love is to get people out of their day to day ineffective routines, change their minds about the challenges they face, and stay on course to reach their best target; rather than put a band aid on their perceived pains. She is also an Ironman Triathlete, so don’t think you’re going to wear her down.

Friday, March 2, 201803/02/2018

A Child of The Rosenbergs Responds

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3/2: Robert Meeropol, whose parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed as atomic spies, responds to a new book about his parents’ case; Lois Ahrens, founder and Executive Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, on bail reform (or not) in Massachusetts

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