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Monday, December 12, 201612/12/2016

Get Culture

In Bill Newman

12.12.16 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with the folks from Sidehill Farm & about the movement to save jazz in Easthampton

Saturday, December 10, 201612/10/2016

Vaya Con Muñoz 12.10.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Emotional conversations post-Nov. 8 continue with Diane Alverio, whose family was recently inducted into the Immigrant Heritage Hall of Fame in Connecticu; an11-year-old girl and how she feels about the president-elect; and from filmmaker Larry Hott, who reminds us that there is a bigger picture out there that can lift our spirits.
We are sung out Joan Manuel Serrta and Toquihno singing, “En tournée.”
Photo of Liga Puertorriqueña e Hispana, 1922, Brooklyn section. The liga was an umbrella organization that united dozens of Puerto Rican clubs and organizations throughout New York. Image from Wikipedia Commons.

Saturday, December 10, 201612/10/2016

Western Mass Business Show 12.10.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Debra Purrington of Bulkley Richardson’s Trustee Support Services

Friday, December 9, 201612/09/2016

Making Room For Everybody

In Bill Newman

Thursday, December 8, 201612/08/2016

Getting Closer to Exonerating Ethel

In Bill Newman

12/8: Robert Meeropol, founder of the Easthampton-based Rosenberg Fund for Children, discusses his visit to the White House and the petition to President Obama to exonerate his mother Ethel Rosenberg, who was wrongly executed by the United States government in 1953; Evee Litwok on her incarceration and the criminal injustice system on the Reverend and the Rabbi; then Rabbi Justin David, Rabbi Riqi Kosovske, & Rev. Peter Ives discuss the new onslaught of hate-speech and hate crimes.

Thursday, December 8, 201612/08/2016

Activism @ Hampshire and Beyond

In Bill Newman

12/7: A special edition of Black in the Valley with co-hosts Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev-Dr. Jacquelyn Crooks-Smith and a Hampshire College political activist; Dava Sobel—after three years in Northampton and research at Smith, this best-selling author talks with us about “The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars; ”The Valley’s own Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, creators of “Rise Up Singing” and “Rise Again,” preview this Friday’s performance in Northampton.

Tuesday, December 6, 201612/06/2016

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

In Bill Newman

12/6: A Trump Fishwrap; NPR -Northampton Poetry Radio with Rich Michelson and award-winning poet Ross Gay; Salman Hameed’s Universe with Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed.

Tuesday, December 6, 201612/06/2016

On The Money (12/7/16)

End of the year tax saving ideas Don’t be paralyzed by your 401k choices How to keep a cool financial…

Monday, December 5, 201612/05/2016

HCOG’s Legislative Summit

In Bill Newman

12/9: Live from the Western Massachusetts Legislative Summit, The Legislative Roundtable with State Senate President Stan Rosenberg, Rep. Peter Kocot and Senator Anne Gobi.

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

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