Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, November 6, 201811/06/2018
More On Question 1
In Bill Newman
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
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.
Saturday, November 3, 201811/03/2018
Western Mass Business Show 11.3.18
In The Western Mass. Business Show
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.
Friday, November 2, 201811/02/2018
The Death of Dawn
In Bill Newman
11/2: MTA Vice President Max Page on the Governor’s race in Massachusetts; astronomer and Hampshire College professor Salman Hameed with breaking news form outer space—the demise of Dawn.
Thursday, November 1, 201811/01/2018
There is a FIFTH(!) Ballot Question?
In Bill Newman
11/1: Ballot question 5 — on ranked choice voting with Andy Anderson, from Voter Choice Massachsuetts; Cider Days in the Valley with Al Sax; then, the Reverend and the Rabbi and the Reverend.
Wednesday, October 31, 201810/31/2018
Cooley’s Take on Question 1
In Bill Newman
10/31: A robust discussion on ballot Question 1—nurse/patient hospital ratios with Jeff Harness and Ann Lebrun from Cooley Dickinson Hospital; then Valley Light Opera previews the upcoming production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Gondoliers.”
Tuesday, October 30, 201810/30/2018
Take Back The House
In Bill Newman
10/30: Take Back the House with local Democrats; then royalty in the house (Ok, on the phone) author Ann Lamott; and Sex Matters with our show’s resident sexologist Jane Fleishman.
Monday, October 29, 201810/29/2018
Our Rabbi Reflects on The Tree of Life Massacre
In Bill Newman
10/29: CBI rabbi Justin David on the murders in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh; Edgar Villanueva, author of “Decolonizing Wealth;” Jim Lemkin on voter suppression
Saturday, October 27, 201810/27/2018
Western Mass Business Show October 27, 2018
In The Western Mass. Business Show
On Sat, Oct 27th @ 11am, and Sun, Oct 21st @ 8pm
hear Ira speak with GERARDO RAMOS about him branching out from growing coral to replant dying reefs, to his new business, Holyoke Green Growers, that will grow recreational cannabis for the newly forming industry in Massachusetts. It’s open air, but you can’t pick your own, because it will have a moat around it!) Listen in!
