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Friday, January 12, 202401/12/2024

Disaster Relief

In Talk The Talk

1/12/24: Rep Natalie Blais: on-line abuse & disaster relief. MTA Pres Max Page: book bans & a living wage. Celebrate! Lisa Thompson, Kathy Couch & Kelly Silliman: 33 Hawley. Atty Joe Schneiderman: the SJC & affordable housing. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: Trump & us. 

Thursday, January 11, 202401/11/2024

Free Speech, No Trump

In Talk The Talk

1/11/24: Atty John Bonifaz, President, Free Speech for People: keeping Trump off the ballot. Rev. Andrea Ayvazian: separation of church & state & her recent benediction.  Immunologist Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: Covid & other health threats today.  Glenn Seigel with the fabulous Roger Clark Miller: Friday’s Hawks & Reed gig.

Allie Wittner & Mary Beth Brooker 

Wednesday, January 10, 202401/10/2024

Quite the Ride

In Talk The Talk

1/10/24: Northampton Mayor G.L. Sciarra. Cool Films: Larry Hott has two recommendations. “2.5 Minute Ride” @ AoM with Mary Beth Brooker & Allie Wittner. Brian Adams with Jenny Powers, Science Dir., Spf’d Museums. No More Guantanamos with founder Nancy Talanian & atty/prof Bruce Miller.

Tuesday, January 9, 202401/09/2024

Western Mass Business Show on 1.6.24 — Michelle Abdow

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Join us as we speak to Michelle Abdow about going from a career in media to building a nationally recognized full-service marketing firm. She was pushed to entrepreneurship after her twins were born and hasn’t looked back in 20+ years. While she won’t tell us her favorite campaign that she has done, she always has the box of tissues ready for those Proctor and Gamble commercials during the Olympics. Learn more about how she has been tugging on heart strings for her clients all over the world as the founder of Market Mentors in West Springfield. Thank you, Michelle. Happy New Years listeners.

Tuesday, January 9, 202401/09/2024

Predictions

In Talk The Talk

1/9/24: Rep Pat Duffy: budget cuts and Fair Share. SABR star Duke Goldman: Red Sox & NYY in 2024. Ed. Collab. E.D. Todd Gazda: bullying in schools. Amherst BID Dir. Gabrielle Gould: making downtown flourish.

Megan Zinn & Lisa Prolman

Monday, January 8, 202401/08/2024

A New Library

In Talk The Talk

1/8/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: school receivership, the police & snow. UMass. Prof Amilcar Shabazz: MLK & the holiday. Constitutional law prof. Bruce Miller: the Trump disqualification case at SCOTUS. Megan Zinn & Lisa Prolman, Ass’t Dir., Greenfield Public Library: why libraries matter.

Lisa Wong, Tim Nelson, Paul Bockelman

Friday, January 5, 202401/05/2024

Taxing Times

In Talk The Talk

1/5/24: MTA Pres. Max Page: a police search for a book in a local school. Astronomer Salman Hammed: flights to asteroids & the moon.  Donnabelle Casis and Heid Erdrich: Indigenous art at the Meade. Community Action’s Rebecca Bannasch: $ back from the IRS.  Amherst Town Mg’r Paul Bockelman: potholes & schools.

Ruth Griggs & Ron Smith

Thursday, January 4, 202401/04/2024

Girls to the Front & Soulful Jazz

In Talk The Talk

1/4/24: Rep. Jim McGovern on war & peace & Biden. Stone Church’s Erin Scaggs & Alouette Batteau: women in the music industry. Prof. Brian Adams & climate activist Russ Vernon Jones: the failed COP conference. Ruth Griggs & NMH Music Program Director, composer & saxophonist Ron Smith — LIVE!

Wednesday, January 3, 202401/03/2024

Happy New Year?

In Talk The Talk

1/3/24: D.A. David Sullivan: Should Trump be excluded from state ballots? . Larry Hott highly recommends “Still: A Michael J. Foxx Movie” & “A Still Small Voice.” Dusty Christensen, the Shoestring’s Investigative Editor, on climate change here. Sen. Paul Mark on guns & housing.

Tuesday, January 2, 202401/02/2024

Western Mass Business Show on 12.30.23 — Aimee Salmon of Positively Africana

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Allow me to introduce Aimee Salmon. She has a harrowing immigrant story that shines of commitment and grace. Join us as we learn about her beginnings in the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the volcano, Rwanda, Massachusetts, and her many successes here as she walks her path in life. If you need a place to feel joy, visit her at Positively Africana on the 2nd floor of Thornes Market in Northampton. Although I am partial to that building, it’s worth the trip. Happy New Year everyone.

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