Saturday, December 3, 201612/03/2016

Western Mass Business Show 12.3.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

12.3.16 Ira talks with Delcie Bean from Paragus IT

Friday, December 2, 201612/02/2016

Bill & Buz

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12/6: Freedom! – Victories for Clemency with GCC professor, attorney Buz Eisenberg; truly, Friends of Children – CASA program director Debi Belkin and Zephyr Rugs owners Victoria and Tahir Sheikh; Eileen Claveloux, Easthampton High school teacher and author of “Klausland: The Life and Work of Klaus Postler;” The Sci-Tech Café with Mount Holyoke College Professor Kathy Aidala; & Inside/Out with Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone and Pasqualina Azzarello, Arts Coordinator in Easthampton.

Thursday, December 1, 201612/01/2016

Newman Live from The WHMP Hot Chocothon

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12/1: The $500,000 question: the Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage with WHMP News Director Denise Vozella and from Safe Passage, Marianne Winters, Executive Director, Lynne Marie Wanamaker, Deputy Director, Laura Penney, Director of Community Engagement and the Say Something Initiative; Raising Change team captain Kathy LeMay and Western Mass Distance Project team captain Kate Queeney; and Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David.

Wednesday, November 30, 201611/30/2016

The Rich & Righteous History Here In Western Mass

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11/30: Professors Max Page and Bruce Laurie on Laurie’s new findings and book on Hampshire County patriots in the Civil War; co-authors Corinne Demas and Artemis Roehrig on “Are Pirates Polite ?” and “Does a Fiddle Crab Fiddle?” (Answers not always obvious!)

Tuesday, November 29, 201611/29/2016

Superheroes

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11/29: Daily Hampshire Gazette reporter Amanda Drane on covering the flag protest at Hampshire College; children book authors/ stars Jane Yolen, Heidi Stemple and Lisa Yee on girl super heroes; baseball star author Jim Kaplan – his new book is “ Clearing the Bases: A Veteran Sportswriter on the National Pastime.”

Tuesday, November 29, 201611/29/2016

On The Money (11/30/16)

What a Donald Trump administration means to interest rates, taxes and Social Security. How to avoid the biggest surprise at…

Monday, November 28, 201611/28/2016

A Positive Place

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11/28: Betsy Shally-Jensen, Director of A Positive Place, and Reed Ide, founder of Aids Care/Hampshire County, on the organization’s 25th anniversary and how the world has changed, and hasn’t; then Chuck Collins, author of “Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good.”

Saturday, November 26, 201611/26/2016

Vaya Con Muñoz 11.26.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

We talk wth Marie Grady, journalism professor at Western New England University – and my former boss at The Republican – about the role the media had in the outcome of the primaries and presidential elections.
I haven’t talked yet about the outcome of the Puerto Rican elections on that same fateful date, but will next time. In the meantime, we are sung out by Marc Anthony singing, “Preciosa,” one of my beloved country’s unofficial anthems.
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Wednesday, November 23, 201611/23/2016

Forbidden Wisdom

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11/23: Massachusetts Review editor Jim Hicks joins PHENOM founder Max Page; Northampton-based filmmaker Wade Wofford on the (upcoming at the Academy of Music) American premiere of his already award-winning new film; Smith College professor Gillian Murray Kendall on her new novel “The Book of Forbidden Wisdom;” Safe Passage Executive Director Marianne Winters speaks with Natalia Munoz about combating hatred in this strange new world.

Wednesday, November 23, 201611/23/2016

The Future of Marijuana in Mass?

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11/22: Monte’s March for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts with Congressman Joe Kennedy and UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy; Northampton Attorney Richard Evans, Chair of the statewide Yes on Question 4 ballot initiative campaign, on what the future holds for legal marijuana in Massachusetts; award-wining children book author Heidi Stemple on Indies Saturday—time to celebrate with some of the nation’s most renown (because they live in the Valley) authors.