Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

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; .

Wednesday, January 14, 201501/14/2015

Guantanmo, Islamaphobia & Islamic Art

In Bill Newman

Internationally renowned journalist Andy Worthington on closing GTMO; then UMass Islamic Art scholar Walter Denny. We ask both guests about Paris and Charlie Hebdo.

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3 days ago in National

A large fire has erupted at an apartment complex in Dallas

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MLB owners have proposed a salary cap for the first time since baseball’s 1994-95 strike

Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players' association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond.

3 days ago in National

Justice Department opens investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of assault: AP source

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist who has said Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store 30 years ago, lied during the course of civil litigation against the Republican president, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Matthew Perry’s assistant gets more than 3 years in prison for central role in his ketamine death

Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the "Friends" star's descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal dose of the drug, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and five months in prison.