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Monday, April 23, 201804/23/2018

Is A Blue Wave Coming: Josh’s Colon

In Bill Newman

4/23: Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of the Northampton-based national organization Represent US, getting big money out of politics; Marion VanArsdell, author of “I Teached Him to Talk: Stories of Children with Autism.”

Saturday, April 21, 201804/21/2018

Vaya Con Muñoz 4.20.18

Larry Hott and I talk with “Shelter” documentary director Craig Renaud.
Betty Medina Litchenstein, executive director of Enlace de Familias en Holyoke, where more than 5,000 Puerto Ricans have sought guidance upon arriving here after the Hurricane María on Sept. 20, says that today FEMA help ends for about 300 families. FEMA has determined that their homes are ready to be moved into again. The commonwealth of Massachusetts may step up to continue to cover hotel costs until their homes are absolutely ready for their return to the island.
Lillian Torres, la ponceña por excelencia, comenta sobre Puerto Rico y la impirtancia de inscribirse y votar en las elecciones este añpo aquí en Massachusetts.

Saturday, April 21, 201804/21/2018

Western Mass Business Show 4.21.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Aimee Francaes and Jesse Hassinger of Belly of the Beast restaurant about working together, how their menu serves vegans and also fans of on-site butchering, and how their mission is exemplified in all they do

Thursday, April 19, 201804/19/2018

Is This The Future Leadership of the Mass Teachers Association?

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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.

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