Thursday, April 19, 201804/19/2018

Is This The Future Leadership of the Mass Teachers Association?

In Bill Newman

4/19: Seeking to be the next President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, Merrie Najimy, and Vice President, Max Page, join the current President, Barbara Madeloni with their pledge to continue her successful and inclusive tenure; then two reverends and one deacon share personal reflections on Northampton’s “Cathedral in the Night.”

Wednesday, April 18, 201804/18/2018

When Bobby Became The Bobby We Know

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4/18: Ellen Meacham, author of “Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi;” Kip Fonsh and Jay Frost on Hands Across the Hills –they leave tomorrow with the delegation from Leverett, Massachusetts to Trump coal county, Letcher County, Kentucky; award-winning Northampton Poet Laureate, Amy Dryansky, and Amy Ben-Ezra from the International Language Institute on amazing poets with works on immigration coming to Northampton this weekend; Betty Medina Lichtenstein, Executive Director of Enlace de Familias, speaks to Natalia Muniz about FEMA benefits expiring this week for Puerto Ricans who fled to our Valley after Hurricane Maria.

Tuesday, April 17, 201804/17/2018

“This is Not A Moment, It’s A Movement.”

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4/17: Laura Reed, Visiting Professor at UMass Honors College, on the U.S. air strikes in Syria; then, amazing students and their amazing director on “Natural Shocks,” being presented in Northampton this Friday evening—a national day of artistic and theatrical performances about gun violence in America; Lucius Couloute, policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative, on unchecking the box, the recent Target settlement and how persons with a criminal record can secure a good job.

Monday, April 16, 201804/16/2018

Tax (Resister) Day

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4.16.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with author T.R. Reid about his new book “A Fine Mess” about the broken tax system in the U.S. Plus a local war tax resister from Sunderland and Black In The Valley.

Monday, April 16, 201804/16/2018

Roz Turns 100

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4/13: Jules Feiffer!!!! And Roz Cilman -Happy 100th birthday, Roz.

Saturday, April 14, 201804/14/2018

Western Mass Business Show 4.14.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

4.14.18 Ira talks with Nick Jones from Noble & Cooley-making drums since before and for Abraham Lincoln.

Thursday, April 12, 201804/12/2018

Is Attorney Client Privilege REALLY Dead or Is Trump in Big Trouble?

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4/12: John Pucci, former head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in western Massachusetts, explains the FBI search of the office of Donald Trump’s lawyer; Corinne Demas and Artemis Roehrig reveal the truth to the age-old question “Do Doodlebugs Doodle? Amazing Insect Facts;” Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on why Justin became a rabbi—part of his new book.

Wednesday, April 11, 201804/11/2018

Reclaiming Mary Magdalene

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4/11: “NPR –Northampton Poetry Radio” with Rich Michelson and former NY State Poet Laureate Marie Howe; writer Jeff Olmstead and Director Chris Rohmann preview Silverthorne Theater’s upcoming world premiere of “Tar2F: An Irreverent Musical Comedy.“

Tuesday, April 10, 201804/10/2018

Full Disclosure: A Festival and What Trump’s Lawyer is About To Be Facing

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4/10: PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Max Page on UMass Amherst buying a college in eastern Mass. at great expense; Linda McInerney, Artistic Director of Egg Tooth Productions, on the Full Disclosure Festival coming to (taking over?) Turners Falls

Monday, April 9, 201804/09/2018

Will Sinclair Television Take Over Our ‘Compass Roads’ In The Valley?

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4/9: President and CEO of Free Press, Craig Aaron, explains the menace that Sinclair Broadcasting (have you seen the video that has gone viral?) poses to freedom in America; then, “Compass Roads”–some of the greatest poets in the Valley grace our studio.