Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Tuesday, April 7, 201504/07/2015

On The Money (4/8/15)

What needs to be done with the IRS and the tax code? Is some debt good in retirement? Does “Buy…

Tuesday, April 7, 201504/07/2015

Art, poetry, and Strange Fruit

In Bill Newman

Guest host Rich Michelson interviews Robert Meeropol, the younger son of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg and Founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.

Tuesday, April 7, 201504/07/2015

Over

In Bill Newman

Author and conservation expert Tom Butler, editor of the extraordinary new book, being referred to as “Over.” The full title is “Overdevelopment. Overpopulation, Overshoot.”

Monday, April 6, 201504/06/2015

Historic Mill River Walks 4.6.2015

In Bill Newman

With guest host Josh Silver.  Black in the Valley, Sojourner Truth, Connecticut River.

Saturday, April 4, 201504/04/2015

The Western Mass Business Show 4.4.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Part 2 of Ira’s conversation with Rick & Ross Giombetti of Giombetti Assoc.

Thursday, April 2, 201504/02/2015

Ken Burns on The Emperor Of All Maladies

In Bill Newman

Filmmaker Ken Burns on “Cancer: the Emperor of All Maladies” and his upcoming event at The Emily Dickinson Museum; then, The Rev (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi (Justin David) on Passover and Easter.

Wednesday, April 1, 201504/01/2015

FDR’s Vision & Shays’ Rebellion

In Bill Newman

Scott J. Myers-Lipton, author of “Ending Extreme Inequality”; then author Daniel Bullen and National Historic Site historian Richard Colton on Daniel Shays — their upcoming event at Forbes Library.

Tuesday, March 31, 201503/31/2015

On The Money (4/1/15)

Starting to save again after the financial set back of 2008 What can we learn from wealthy people? Thinking long…

Tuesday, March 31, 201503/31/2015

The Future of Downtown Northampton: A WHMP Community Forum

WHMP hosts discuss the future of downtown Northampton post-BID with panelists Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, City Council President Bill Dwight,…

Monday, March 30, 201503/30/2015

Tim Blagg Retires From The Paper, Comes On The Radio

In Bill Newman

After 28 years as editor of the Greenfield Recorder, Tim Blagg joins us on retirement Day 1; UMass. Professor David Kotz on the rich getting richer and everyone else in America getting poorer—his new book is “The Rise and Fall of Neo-Liberal Capitalism”; Roselle Kline Chartock on ”prep schools in our midst, author of “The Windsor Mountain School, A Beloved Berkshire Institution.”

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