Saturday, April 28, 201804/28/2018

Western Mass Business Show 4.28.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

This Saturday, April 28th, at 11am, hear Ira speak with Jon Anderson of Sidehill Consulting about how he trains and improves sales teams and sales management; how what makes a salesperson great doesn’t translate to managing a team; what systems help keep salespeople properly focuses; what makes a customer loyal to a salesperson; and his perspectives on the classic tension between sales and production.

Thursday, April 26, 201804/26/2018

Swords In The Hands of Children

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4/26: Jonathan Lerner, author of “Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolutionary;” “The Reverend and the Rabbi” and the Workers Center; Jane Maloof, founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, on her upcoming presentation at Smith College.

Wednesday, April 25, 201804/25/2018

Jam For Bread

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4/25: Live in the studio– The Northamptones with Director Beau Flahive and from the MANNA Soup Kitchen Board of Directors, Naomi Tannen.

Tuesday, April 24, 201804/24/2018

Get Serious

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Serious Play! The Fringe Festival and the Red Guitar with Sheryl Stoodley and John Sheldon; The Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has—take it! And Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Monday, April 23, 201804/23/2018

Is A Blue Wave Coming: Josh’s Colon

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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

Friday, April 20, 201804/20/2018

What do Muslims Think About Evolution? And How Is That Question Is Being Used To Divide Us?

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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.