Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, January 23, 201501/23/2015

Oscar Nominated Documentaries & A Smithsonian Award Artist

In Bill Newman

Cool films with Emmy-Award–winning filmmaker Larry Hott; cool marquetry with 2015 Smithsonian-award-winning artist Silas Kopf.

Friday, January 23, 201501/23/2015

Is Social Security Secure?

In Bill Newman

MHC prof. Kathy Aidala on the Sci-Tech Café; Rev. Peter Ives, Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Rabbi Justin David on “Can Ferguson Happen Here?” Atty Nancy Altman, author of “Social Security Works!”

Wednesday, January 21, 201501/21/2015

SOTU, Not All Poor People are Black, & Mussolini

In Bill Newman

Photographers Steven Petegorsky, Step by Step, his new exhibit and Max Page on Deafening Silence—Mussolini’s Legacy in Rome. Janet Cheatham Bell, author of “Not All Poor People Are Black and other things we need to think more about.”

Tuesday, January 20, 201501/20/2015

On The Money (1/21/15)

Why would Bill Gross “The Bond King” say, “The good times are over?” How do you start an investment plan?…

Tuesday, January 20, 201501/20/2015

The Doomsday Clock

In Bill Newman

The hands are about to move on the Doomsday Clock– with Dr. Ira Helfand, Co-President, Int’l Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War;
Professor Julian E. Zelizer, on The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society.

Monday, January 19, 201501/19/2015

MLK Day: Social Justice & South Africa

In Bill Newman

The Paulo Freire Charter School for Social Justice—its foudner and its students. UMass history prof. John Higgison on apartheid in South Africa and America.

Saturday, January 17, 201501/17/2015

Western Mass Business Show 1.17.15

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Mark Borsari from Sanderson Macleod

Friday, January 16, 201501/16/2015

Spooning and Cupping

Friday, January 16, 201501/16/2015

Tsarnaev Jury Selection & Calling Long Distance from Prison

In Bill Newman

Peter Wagner, Exec. Dir., the Prison Policy Initiative; then NCIS (Northampton Criminal Investigative Service) with attorney Harry Miles on jury selection in the Tsarnaev trial.

Thursday, January 15, 201501/15/2015

Could Ferguson Happen Here & When Are The Drones Coming?

In Bill Newman

Can Ferguson Happen Here? with UMass prof Whitney Battle-Baptiste , Dr. Peter Titelman, Rev. Peter Ives & Rabbi Justin David; Smith prof. Paul Voss on drones in Northampton; Amherst Live! with founder Oliver Broudy and MHC prof. Kathy Aidala; .

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

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Shooting at Rhode Island youth hockey game leaves 3 dead, including shooter, and 3 more wounded

A shooting during a Rhode Island youth hockey game left three people dead, including the shooter, and three more hospitalized Monday night in critical condition, authorities said.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84.

2 days ago in Sports, Trending

Good game, bad dunk contest. The highs and lows of an eventful NBA All-Star weekend

If you still didn't like the NBA's newest All-Star Game format, you probably just don't like All-Star games. That seemed to be the sports sphere's consensus after the U.S.-against-the-world, round-robin tournament Sunday produced three thrilling mini-games and several impressive individual performances.