Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Monday, August 14, 201708/14/2017

The Eclipse

In Bill Newman

8.14.17 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks the impending eclipse. Also Buz’s treatise on the circumstantial evidence surround Trump and white supremacists.

Saturday, August 12, 201708/12/2017

Western Mass Business Show 8.12.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

8.12.17 Ira talks with Janet Callahan of Palmer Paving, a WMass family business building roads since 1955

Saturday, August 12, 201708/12/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 8.12.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

The Rant: Wish there were many, many, many more people at the protest on Tuesday to show Gov. Baker that he should not make the terror that undocumented immigrants live under greater by pushing to have local police departments detain them.
On the street interviews with protesters and one of the organizers, Rose Bookbinder of the Pioneer Valley Worker’s Center, which has taken a lead role in helping immigrants.
Filmmaker Larry Hott brings longtime television newsmagazine producer Jeffrey Diamond to talk about the state of the media and Diamond’s new book.
Lillian Torres, la ponceña por excelencia y yo hablamos sobre inmigración.
Juanes sings us out with “No Siento Penas.”
Photo by Natalia Muñoz

Friday, August 11, 201708/11/2017

Looking for Lights At The End of Tunnels

In Bill Newman

8.11.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with Monte about immigration and the NFL, plus the arts report and a closer look at the situation in Puerto Rico.

Thursday, August 10, 201708/10/2017

The Daily Devotion of Motherhood

In Bill Newman

8.10.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with Martha Fleming-Ives and her father The Reverend Peter Ives about Martha’s new photo exhibit in Downtown Northampton.

Wednesday, August 9, 201708/09/2017

ABC, NBC, CBS-The Fate of The MSM

In Bill Newman

8.9.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talk with Larry Hott and former ABC Senior Producer Jeffrey Diamond

Tuesday, August 8, 201708/08/2017

The ACLU Goes To Bat for John Oliver

In Bill Newman

8.8.17 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with the WV ACLU Lawyer who is going to bat for freedom of speech and comedy. Plus, Your State U with Max Paige

Monday, August 7, 201708/07/2017

Gerrymandering The Internet

8.7.17. Josh Silver from Represent.Us guest hosts and talks gerrymandering and the gerrymandering of the internet as a threat to Net Neutrality. Plus a special Black In The Valley with a review of the new film Detroit.

Saturday, August 5, 201708/05/2017

Western Mass Business Show 8.5.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Shonda Pettiford (CEO) and Dave Christensen (owner) of Gravity Switch, a web design company from Northampton, and soon, Hadley

Saturday, August 5, 201708/05/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 8.5.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

The First Rant: Before Sen. John McCain cast the decisive vote that ended the cruel healh care bill, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, Republicans of Alaska and Maine, respectively, set the bill on its doomed path. Also, how one Northampton email list serv handled a delicate disagreement about airplane noises.
Award-winning filmmaker and Florence resident Larry Hott reviews “The Settlers,” about the controversial settements in Israel that drive a searing wedge among Israelis, Palestinians and Jews in the U.S. Trailer here: settlersfilm.com/
Matt Szafranski, founder and editor of Western Mass. Politcs and Insight [wmasspi.com], unpacks the municipal elections in Holyoke and Springfield, and what the return of former Springfield state Rep. Cheryl Coakley Rivera means for her city now that she is running for City Council.
Rant 2: The trumpster fires continue, with his backing of an immigration bill that would redefine who’s a worthy immigrant.
We are sung out by Maná, “Eres Mi Religión.’”
Image from the documentary “The Settlers.”

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