Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Monday, January 18, 201601/18/2016

Smith Sudan Scholar & Black in the Valley

In Bill Newman

1.18.16- Bill Newman speaks with Smith College Professor and Sudan scholar Eric Reeves; Black in the Valley with Rev. Doctor Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Doctor Carlie Tartakov honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and five years of their weekly segment on the Bill Newman Show.

Monday, January 18, 201601/18/2016

MLK Day In The Valley

In Bill Newman

Monday, January 18, 201601/18/2016

Western Mass Business Show 1.16.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Denis Gagnon of Excel Dryer.

Saturday, January 16, 201601/16/2016

One of Holyoke’s Main Innovators

In Vaya Con Muñoz

1.16.16 Natalia talks with Samalid Hogan about the Holyoke Innovation District

Friday, January 15, 201601/15/2016

Mt Tom Academy & Newsweek

In Bill Newman

1.15- Barbara Chaney, Matt Rigney, and students from the Mount Tom Academy—individualized and cooperative learning in high school; Nina Burleigh, National Politics Correspondent from Newsweek on the rebirth of the magazine and her recent exploration of the melting ice sheets of Antarctica. Also, arts in the Valley this weekend.

Thursday, January 14, 201601/14/2016

Guns, State Politics, Climate Film, & MLK

In Bill Newman

R. Douglas Fields, author of “Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain;” Massachusetts State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on marijuana policy, charter schools, criminal justice reform; and that fracking pipeline; then Sigrid Schmalzer, UMass history prof and Director of STPEC (Social Thought and Political Economy) program on “Merchants of Doubt” (the climate change deniers fraud)-the film at Forbes this weekend; Reverend Peter Ives, W.Mass. AFSC Director Jeff Napolitano and Dr. Peter Titelman on MLK Day observances, lessons and celebrations and Black Lives Matter.

Wednesday, January 13, 201601/13/2016

Your State U, Music for Change, & Vaya Con Muñoz

In Bill Newman

Bill speaks with PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts)founder and former MSP (Massachusetts Society of Professors) President Max Page, singer-songwriters and political activists Peter Blood and Annie Patterson –don’t miss their show this weekend!, and Vaya Con Muñoz with Natalia Muñoz: Dr. Marty Nathan and Milta Franco talk about the Cliniquita program.

Tuesday, January 12, 201601/12/2016

Sprawlbuster at the State Supreme Court

In Bill Newman

Sprawlbuster Al Norman and lawyer Tom Lesser on last week’s state Supreme Judicial Court hearing on efforts to bring a Wal-Mart to Greenfield’s French King Highway.

Tuesday, January 12, 201601/12/2016

Guantanamo Bay Anniversary

In Bill Newman

Guantanamo Bay detainee attorney Buz Eisenberg speaks on the fifteenth anniversary of the controversial Cuban prison; ACLU of Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose; Represent US CEO Josh Silver on the latest presidential polls.

Tuesday, January 12, 201601/12/2016

Defenders of Public Education

In Bill Newman

Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni and PHENOM –Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts founder Max Page.

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