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Monday, March 11, 202403/11/2024

Our Awards Go To

In Talk The Talk

3/11/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on schools, decent housing & St. Paddy’s Day. Amilcar Shabazz w/ award winning community activists Pat Ononibaku & Councilor Ellisha Walker. Tapestry Health’s CEO Mavis Nimoh on reproductive rights & safe sites. Megan Zinn on commas that divide us.

Friday, March 8, 202403/08/2024

The Hustler Files Ep 52

In The Hustler Files

THE COURAGE TO BREAK THROUGH THE SOUNDS OF PRISON SILENCE

Noelle Hanrahan was 57 when she attended law school.  As a founding member of Prison Radio dot org, Noelle realized that it wasn’t enough to just be a journalist and broadcast the voices of those incarcerated individuals who were brave enough to speak out about prison treatment and conditions, she needed to find a way to get their release.  Prison Radio stories serve as catalysts for policy changes, public awareness campaigns and community activism aimed at addressing systemic issues within the justice system. Across the U.S. there are approximately 5.5 million people under a form of correctional control.

Carrie Baker w/ Merle Hoffman: "Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto."

Friday, March 8, 202403/08/2024

 State of the Union on Int’l Women’s Day

In Talk The Talk

3/8/24: MTA’s Max Page: Biden, unions & MCAS. Scott Coen: UMass & the MAC. Donnabelle Casis w/ MHC prof Dixon Williams on Anila Quayyum Agha. Carrie Baker w/ Merle Hoffman: “Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto.” Megan Zinn w/ poet Carolina Hotchandani (“The Bookeaters”) & Perugia Press’ Becky Olander.

Thursday, March 7, 202403/07/2024

Cease Fire Now

In Talk The Talk

3/7/24: Rep. Jim McGovern on Gaza, Ukraine, Biden, & Trump. Rev. Andrea Ayvazian w/ Rev. Terrlyn Curry Avery: the devastating hate crime, arson, at her, the MLK Community, Church in Springfield, rebuilding, healing & love. Prof. Brian Adams w/ CISA’s Claire Morenon: support local farms, fight hunger, buy fresh.

Wednesday, March 6, 202403/06/2024

Western Mass Business Show on 3.2.24 — Adam Duso and Jill Fishman and Adrian

In The Western Mass. Business Show

SWC specializes in transaction-based reorganizations for underperforming and over leveraged businesses that allow them to avoid bankruptcy, eliminate unsupported debt, preserve business value, increase recovery to creditors, and preserve jobs within the local community of the business. Well thanks for doing this, Adam Duso but how do you do it? Tune into find out more and as a bonus for listening you’ll get the first drop on the new restaurant coming to Turners Falls in the spring/summer, Dreamhouse. Jill Fishman tells us about her restaurant saga and why she and her partner Adrian are opening their dream in TF. Thanks for listening folks!

Wednesday, March 6, 202403/06/2024

Financial Fitness on 3.2.2024

In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor

The Financial Dr. talks about pensions, 401K’s and your retirement.

Left to right: Larry Hott & Peter Blood

Wednesday, March 6, 202403/06/2024

Wacky, Worrisome, Some Things Wonderful Wednesday

In Talk The Talk

3/6/24: NHS students performing LIVE “Freaky Friday”. DA David Sullivan on local gun buybacks. Larry Hott & Peter Blood: Movement Voter Project. Code Pink’s Susan Triolo & Paki Wieland: Int’l Women’s Day. Reporter Dusty Christensen covers & uncovers Greenfield’s Police & Mayor.

John Pucci

Tuesday, March 5, 202403/05/2024

Trump This

In Talk The Talk

3/5/24: Atty John Pucci: Trump’s NY hush money criminal trial. Mark Ames, Temporary Register of Hampshire Probate & Family Court. Sen Paul Mark: today’s voting & the state budget. Northampton School Comm members Karen Foster Cannon & Gwen Agna on not enough money.

Monday, March 4, 202403/04/2024

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

In Talk The Talk

3/4/24: Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the lawsuit, Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield v. Northampton; also, liquor licenses & the ABCC. Sen Jo Comerford: school funding. Democrats Catherine Kay, Jim Nash, and Sam Hopper on tomorrow’s elections.

Friday, March 1, 202403/01/2024

The Hustler Files Ep 51

In The Hustler Files

EVEN BEHIND THE WALL, EDUCATION WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET

Venturing Out is the antithesis of what most women behind the wall at MCI Framingham (Massachusetts) will ever be granted.  Yet for Beth Goldstein and Elizabeth Swanson their in-prison initiative, Venturing Out, offers so much more than the literal description of their program.  For Beth and Elizabeth, whose day job is as educators at Babson College, to go behind the wall to empower and educate the incarcerated female population with an entrepreneurial mindset in humanities and leadership is a way to have local and personal impact on these women’s lives.

Recent Headlines

3 days ago in Lifestyle, Trending

Where are the wackiest New Year’s Eve drops in the US?

Why let New York City have all the fun with its Times Square ball drop on New Year's Eve? Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of fruits, vegetables, sea creatures and balls of all shapes and sizes. Many have a hometown flair.

3 days ago in National, Trending

Winter storm packing snow and strong winds to descend on Great Lakes and Northeast

A wild winter storm was expected to bring strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday, a day after a bomb cyclone barreled across the northern U.S. and left tens of thousands of customers without power.

2 weeks ago in Sports, Trending

Jalen Hurts and the Eagles win their second NFC East title in a row by beating the Commanders 29-18

As the percussive horns of Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" filled the air, Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni — wearing a black T-shirt bearing the words, "Been there, won that" — made the rounds in the locker room, offering hand clasps and back slaps to his players after they accomplished something that hadn't happened in two decades: win a second consecutive NFC East title.

2 weeks ago in Entertainment, Trending

Pop culture in 2025: A ring for Taylor, an ill-timed KissCam … and whatever ‘6-7’ means

From the inexplicable to the familiar, here's our annual, highly selective journey down pop culture memory lane.

2 weeks ago in National

Hundreds mourn Brown University sophomore Ella Cook, killed in campus shooting

A Brown University sophomore who was killed in an attack at the Rhode Island university was remembered Monday as "smart, confident, curious, kind, principled, brave," at a funeral in her home state of Alabama.