Wednesday, July 13, 201607/13/2016

The Pan Mass Challenge

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7/13: The Pan-Mass Challenge with Judith Souweine and Dr. Ted Diamond; the Northampton Survival Center’s Heidi Nortonsmith and Amy Marsters preview the upcoming MarKamusic at Black Birch Vineyard; Sam Rush, Producing Director of New Century Theatre, on “Time Stands Still;” Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz—speaking with her family in Puerto Rico about Zika and with us about the recent turmoil at the Northampton Human Rights Commission (of which she is the Chair).

Tuesday, July 12, 201607/12/2016

Becoming Bobby

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7/12: Award-winning Boston Globe reporter and best-selling author Larry Tye on “Bobby Kennedy The Making of a Liberal Icon;” Scott Seligman on “Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York’s Chinatown;” Hampshire College professor and Five College professor of astronomy Salman Hameed on Jupiter and Juno and life in our solar system.

Tuesday, July 12, 201607/12/2016

On The Money (7/13/16)

Is the stock market overvalued and could it be a cause for concern? What do you need to be thinking…

Monday, July 11, 201607/11/2016

The Almighty As A Mushroom Cloud

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7/11: Washington Post reporter Dan Zak, author of “Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age;” then “Your State U.” with ”PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Max Page on budget cuts, rising tuition and out-of state students; Greenfield author Serena Burdick on “Girl in the Afternoon: A Novel of Paris.”

Saturday, July 9, 201607/09/2016

Western Mass Business Show 7.9.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

7.9.16 Ira talks with Tess Poe from Beehive Sewing in Northampton

Saturday, July 9, 201607/09/2016

Vaya Con Muñoz 7.9.16

Once again rogue police officers kill innocent black men. Marla Goldberg and I have a few things to say about that, including spotlighting that Northampton is the first community in Masachusetts to respond to a call by President Barack Obama for police departments nationwide to take part in the Police Data Initiative, “ a community of practice that includes leading law enforcement agencies, technologists, and researchers committed to improving the relationship between citizens and police through uses of data that increase transparency, build community trust, and strengthen accountability.” In Police Chief Jody Kasper’s own words, who invited me to be on the Open Data Team: “ We are the first in the state to sign on and only the 55th in the country. Joining this program means that we will be working toward opening up data and information to members of the public for their review. Even before joining the PDI our department has been working to release data. We currently post all of our policies and procedures, employee demographics, driver demographics, and many others.” Information is power, and power will dismantle institutional racism, sexism — all the isms and phobias.And filmmaker Lawrence Hott talks about teaching historical documentary production at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. Beautiful place to learn a thing or two about mass communications! Here’s the link: www.mainemedia.edu.

Friday, July 8, 201607/08/2016

Sing Out With Your Soul

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7/8: LGBT JP JM Sorrell on the trans bill before Gov. Baker; Atty Luke Ryan on developments in the western Mass. drug lab scandal; Rock Voices—the community choir – really does rock- –a preview of the upcoming Summer of Soul concert with founder and master of the musical universe, Tony Lechner, and seven members* of the group; Sugar Shack Alliance organizers Paki Wieland and Irvine Sobelman on the upcoming confab and protest against the Kinder Morgan pipeline though Otis State Forest; then today’s and tonight’s artists on the streets of Northampton- Betsy Stone, Kathy Hession, & David Brewster.

*Penny Smith-Giguere., Lucy Garbus, Morgan Aronson, Joanne Grisanti, Brenda Barlow, Elazar Nudell, & Laura Davenport

Thursday, July 7, 201607/07/2016

The P.O. & The KO

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7/7: The P.O.—“How the Post Office Created America,” the just-published book by our guest, New York Times best-selling author Winifred Gallagher; The KO—the Ko Festival returns—with the festival’s Artistic Director Sabrina Hamilton.

Wednesday, July 6, 201607/06/2016

Raggedy

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7/6: Raggedy Ann is in the studio!! –with Marcella, Fido and Tom McCabe from Paint Box Theatre along with Myka Plunkett and Connor Paradis; Penny Burke, Executive Director, Northampton Center for the Arts on “En Plain Air” — back on the streets of Northampton; Vaya con Muniz with Natalia Munoz and National Lawyers Guild President Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan—America’s colonization of Puerto Rico continues.

Tuesday, July 5, 201607/05/2016

On The Money (7/6/16)

Coming up this week on On the Money with Gary Thomas… How can you make the most out of the…