Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, July 8, 202507/08/2025
Hits and Misses
7/8/25: Bill & Buz: fed cuts = state cuts = local cuts. Todd Gazda, Ed Collab Dir, returning to his elementary school as the principal: “I miss kids!” Actors Rona Leventhal & Patric Madden: “Torch Song.” Duke Goldman: Yanks, Sox & Mets, the All-Star Game & 10 Red Sox visiting Trump.
Monday, July 7, 202507/07/2025
Bracing for Impact
7/7/25: Atty Jack Godleski: most Mass public defenders now on strike. Megan Zinn w/ bestselling romance novelist Sarah MacLean: “These Summer Storms.” Sen Jo Comerford: preserving women’s health care, protecting privacy & budget contingencies. Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: citizenship, impact of federal cuts, & what’s next?
Saturday, July 5, 202507/05/2025
Panorama — Episode 111 — Ace Tayloe, Northampton Ward 3 Candidate
In Panorama
Originally aired on July 5, 2025. Ace Tayloe, candidate for Northampton Ward 3 City Council. What’s Ace’s vision for Northampton? Does the Northampton downtown redesign project make sense? What will be the impact on local businesses? How can the City Council support public schools? Does Northampton need to become a bigger city? Ace Tayloe tackles all of those questions and more on this episode of Panorama.
Thursday, July 3, 202507/03/2025
Democracy Sunsets
7/3/25: Immigration atty Dan Berger: mass deportations, deporting citizens & Trump’s lies. Dollars and Sense ed & economics prof John Miller: consequences of the Big Ugly Bill. Rep Jim McGovern: live from Congress — Republicans genuflecting to Trump. Ruth Griggs w/ saxist Ben Malynoski & drummer Jacob Smith: “New Sunsets” at the Carle.
Wednesday, July 2, 202507/02/2025
Western Mass Business Show on 7.2.25 — DonnaBelle Casis
In The Western Mass. Business Show
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DonnaBelle is intuitive. She trusts that the world will guide her to where she needs to go. She listens to her gut and trusts her instincts. She is a creative, an artist, a writer, a producer (Art Beat Report), a podcaster (To Hum is Human), a researcher (markers of identity), a designer (apparel), a Mom (twins), and more. Tune in to hear how connected she is and why you must pick up a copy of The Intuitive Entrepreneur. Her chapter The “What If?” Principle: 5 Key Questions to Uplevel Your Business will move you to ground into those tangible connections that surround you for increased vibration and positive impact. I can’t wait for her book to come out in 2026. I have already booked a Rieke session with her and contemplating a Medium appointment as well. We all need more DonnaBelle in our lives. Thanks for listening.
Wednesday, July 2, 202507/02/2025
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
7/2/25: D.A. David Sullivan: naturalization & Trump’s lies about crime. Historic Northampton’s Laurie Sanders & Betty Sharpe: “Slavery & Freedom in Northampton,1654- 1783.” GCC Prof Brian Adams w/ Kestrel Land Trust Conserv Dir Mark Wamsley: Vollinger Farm conserved!! GLAD Attorney Jennifer Levi: SCOTUS decisions
attack transgender youth and parents.
Wednesday, July 2, 202507/02/2025
Something’s Happening Here
7/1/25: Sen Paul Mark: the state budget (enacted yesterday) defense against federal cuts. ACLU Mass Ex Dir Carol Rose: SCOTUS’ birthright & free speech decisions. Amherst law & gov’t prof Austin Sarat: the Constitution & democracy in crisis. Nhmpton multi-disciplinary artist Inde: “Mirror Mirror,” his exhibit & performance at A.P.E. Gallery.
Monday, June 30, 202506/30/2025
Royalty in the House
6/30/25: “The Duke: Weekly Conversations with the Last Honest Politician” with author Scott Kerman. Megan Zinn w/ THE Ocean Vuong on life and literature. Alex Leff: his Human Nature Odyssey podcast. Chester Theatre Co-Artistic Directors Chris Baker & Michelle Ong-Hendrick: four fabulous productions this summer.
Friday, June 27, 202506/27/2025
Panorama — Episode 110 — Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism
In Panorama
Originally aired on June 28, 2025. Owen Zaret, former Easthampton City Councilor, returns with J.M. Sorrell, Daily Hampshire Gazette columnist, to discuss Massachusetts’s Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism. What is the Commission on Combatting Antisemitism? Why did Owen Zaret testify? What does the Commission hope to achieve? This episode explores why Easthampton along with other towns in Massachusetts are failing to combat the growing scourge of antisemitism.
Friday, June 27, 202506/27/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 118
ONE MAN’S MISSION FOR CHANGE
From a small-town upbringing, working in construction, to leading the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, in New York State, Sheriff Craig Apple has placed a strong emphasis on programs that have drastically reduced recidivism and received statewide and national recognition. From his day-to-day watch of 748 employees and 800-900 incarcerated individuals, he has built programs that will last long after his time as Sheriff. His triumphs include a Heroin Addiction Recovery Program, a Soldier On program for Veterans, an Inmate Fire Training program and an Inmate Work Force Program, still to him, one of his greatest legacies is a housing area, within the jail, but separate from the incarcerated individuals, that assist the local homeless population. This innovative homeless improvement program, initiated after COVID-19, has given hope and a new lease on life to so many who once walked the streets of Albany.
