Podcasts
Podcasts
Wednesday, March 7, 201803/07/2018
#Yolen 365 (#LeapYolen366)
In Bill Newman
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
In Bill Newman
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?
In Bill Newman
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
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
In Bill Newman
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
Thursday, March 1, 201803/01/2018
A Community Rallies Around Soccer and Somalis
In Bill Newman
3/1: Amy Bass, author of “One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought Together a Divided Town;” David Daley, author of “Rat F**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count,” on gerrymandering and the future (or not) of democracy in
America; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David, with considerable help from Monte, explain Purim.
Wednesday, February 28, 201802/28/2018
Is It Mueller Time Yet?
In Bill Newman
2/28: Attorney John Pucci, former head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Western Massachusetts, discusses the Mueller investigation, the indictment of the Russians, and the risks Trump faces if he talks to the investigators.
Tuesday, February 27, 201802/27/2018
Putting The First Congressional District First
In Bill Newman
2.27.18 Buz Eisenberg hosts and talks with candidate for US Congress Tahirah Amitul Wadud and with UMass’s Max Page on likely changes coming down from the Supreme Court in the way unions operate.
Monday, February 26, 201802/26/2018
Fear & Wonder
In Bill Newman
2.26.18 Monte fills if for Josh Silver who was supposed to be filling in for Newman and talks with Howard Blum on his new book In The Enemy’s House-a history of Russian spying and it’s implications for the current administration. Umass professor Shaheen Pasha about woman of color and the state of journalism amidst the #metoo movement. And Northampton Poetry Radio with Rich Michelson and Ellen Watson on words of wonder rather than fear.
