Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, January 10, 202501/10/2025
There Oughta Be a Law
1/10/25: MTA Pres Max Page: being at the White House w/ President Biden. Bill & Buz on Trump’s cases. Donnabelle Casis w/ Amherst Coll student curators Mel Arthur & Angie Camarena: “RePresenting: Art Beyond the Color Line.” Kyiv School of Econ students: Asta Motrenko, Oleksandra Horusieva, Marharyta Nechytailo, Karyna Lutsenko. GTMO atty John Chandler: the prison’s 23rd anniversary & the recent transfers
Thursday, January 9, 202501/09/2025
Former Presidents
1/9/25: Jonathan Lash, author & former Hampshire Coll President on “What Death Revealed…” Michael McSherry, Sr Pastor, Edwards Church: he is leaving & we are sad. Marc Lendler, Smith Coll Prof Emeritus of Gov’t: Jimmy Carter’s legacy. Rich Michelson on his new kids’ book, “More Than Enough.”
Wednesday, January 8, 202501/08/2025
What We Do and Don’t Want to Know
1/8/25: DA David Sullivan: Trump & ICE & local law enforcement. Larry Hott reviews two great films: “Union” & “Frida.” Brian Adams w/ Ben Weil: Northampton’s proposed fossil fuel free building codes. Raja Khouri & Jeffrey Wilkinson: “The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know About Each Other.”
Tuesday, January 7, 202501/07/2025
Sentences
1/7/25: Buz on yesterday’s 11 GTMO transfers & who’s left there. Atty John Pucci: the remaining Trump cases — will SCOTUS bail him out? Michael Klare on Trump, wars & autocrats, — Gaza, Ukraine, Russia & China, Sen Paul Mark on Trump targeting Massachusetts & the legislature’s transparency. Jessica Gifford: addressing the loneliness pandemic.
Monday, January 6, 202501/06/2025
Financial Fitness 1/4/2025
In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor
Jess Tyler and the Money Doctor on saving money and retiring well.
Monday, January 6, 202501/06/2025
In the Money
1/6/25: Sen Jo Comerford: bracing for Trump, newly passed bills, & 2025 priorities. Hamp Mayor GL Sciarra: municipal money, capital Improvements — SEXY! & the Main St. Project. Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, Recorder columnist & former Chair, Gfld Human Rts Comm: surviving dark times well. Megan Zinn w/ romance novel legend Loretta Chase: “My Inconvenient Duke.”
Friday, January 3, 202501/03/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 93
THE DEATH PENALTY CAN BE WEEDY
As Joe Biden started winding down his Presidency, and Donald Trump started accelerating his, Joe Biden took advantage, like all Presidents, to commute 37 men sitting on death row. These commutations reduce their sentences from the death penalty to life without parole. These 37 (out of 40) are in federal prisons vs. the thousands that sit on death row, in the State prison systems and can only be commuted by the individual state Governors. The 3 men who did not receive commutations and will stay on death row are those involved with terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. Trump has never been quiet about his support of the death penalty and his call to expand federal executions, once he takes office for the 2nd time. It was during his last presidency that he restarted federal executions, after a 20-year pause, and 13 were executed. Since 1973 at least 200 people in the United States who were convicted and sentenced to the death penalty have been exonerated! If you want more information on the Death Penalty, visit the Death Penalty Information Center.
Friday, January 3, 202501/03/2025
Under Oath
1/3/25: MTA Pres Max Page: change K-12 funding & other 2025 priorities. Bill & Buz: the meaning of the oath that Congress takes today. Donnabelle Casis w/ New England Visionary Artists Museum Co-directors Michael Tillyer & Susan Foley. Community Action’s Claire Higgins on Housing in Place. Human Rights Attorney Laura Pitter: the issue is genocide.
Friday, January 3, 202501/03/2025
Western Mass Business on 1.11.25 — Twice As Smart
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Gloria Matlock Founder and Executive Director
Debbie Shriver Chair of the BOD
Michael Kane BOD Member
Shino
Jemanae
Jayleigh
Rose
www.twice-as-smart.org
Founded in 2016 in Gloria’s home, Twice As Smart was begun on the principle that some kids need extra help. Because Gloria saw a need and because she is a fixer, she wanted to help fix a learning deficiency in Franklin County. What bean with 7 kids in her living room quickly rose to 17 before she realized she needed a bigger space. The program now sees 32 students in the basement of the Second Congregational Church in Greenfield. Gloria grew up in Ohio and began teaching other children at age 11. She saw the value of education and the need to help others when possible. Debbie and she met over singing and have been friends ever since. There is a strong music component to TAS, and the kids overlap with the Musica Franklin curriculum in Greenfield as well. Join us to learn why you should support this amazing non-profit in the 413. A special song by the children was the highlight of the interview. Thanks for listening. Happy New Year.
Thursday, January 2, 202501/02/2025
Darkness & Light
1/2/25: Rep Jim McGovern: terror in New Orleans & scary stuff in Washington. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske & JM Sorrell on “We Will Dance Again: Surviving October 7th,” a film about the Hamas massacre. Ed Orzechowski & Darlene Volpe on “Becoming Darlene: The Story of Belchertown Patient #3394.” Ruth Griggs w/ Director Jeff Olmsted: Valley Jazz Voices & the January 12 concert.
