Saturday, July 15, 202307/15/2023

Western Mass Business Show 7.15.23 — Elmer’s

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ariel Brooks and Nan Parati give us the Hilltown dirt. Or maybe it’s the community tapestry that they weave that keeps us wanting more. Find out how they came together to save a building in Ashfield or maybe they saved the community or the community saved them. This is a not to be missed episode to lean all about what it looks like to collaborate and establish new models of use and operation. Get ready to take a drive to the Hilltowns with us. I promise it will be a magical carpet ride.

Saturday, July 15, 202307/15/2023

Panorama — Episode 68 — On Teaching Literacy w/ Kimberly Salditt Poulin

In Panorama

Originally aired on July 15, 2023. Dan and Sarah talk to special education teacher Kimberly Salditt Poulin about the teaching of reading, student scores, and the current state of literacy in America.

Friday, July 14, 202307/14/2023

The Hustler Files Ep 25

In The Hustler Files

FROM CORRECTIONS TO THE CARDINAL, MEET KERON MCHUGH

Keron McHugh may have seemed like just another black-market bad boy when the Feds arrested him in 2010, but they never could have guessed that incarceration would actually be the change that Keron needed to find in himself.  In his seven years behind the wall, Keron not only read over 1,000 books (to self-educate) but was encouraged by his cell-mates to pursue the art of tattooing with only the rawest of materials available, due to his incredible ability to not just draw, but create breathtaking artwork. That trajectory gave Keron the grit he needed to sketch out his future as he served out his time, and followed Keron through his release from prison in 2017 and into what is now, an extremely successful skin art business in Mebane, North Carolina, The Cardinal Skin Art and Gallery.

Friday, July 14, 202307/14/2023

Western Mass Business Show 7.1.23 – Common Capital

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Join us as we chat with Raymond Lanza Weil Executive Director and Callie Niezgoda Flanagan Director of Lending at Common Capital. CC is a nonprofit community loan fund and SBA micro lender. They are a Community Development Financial Institution serving all 4 counties of WMA. They are a subsidiary of WayFinders and since their founding in 1999 have made over 30 million in loans to nearly 800 businesses and helped to retain over 2,000 jobs. Thank you for all that you do for our region Common Capital. We appreciate you and look forward to your continued expansion regionally.

Friday, July 14, 202307/14/2023

Devastation

In Talk The Talk

7/14/23: Rep. Natalie Blais on the deluge — who’s hurting & what’s to be done? MTA Pres. Max Page on a big change in high school high stakes testing; Donnabelle Casis with photographer Nona Hatay on her AMAZING! new show; Steve Ellis, member, MA Econ. Devel. Planning Council, our region’s economic future; Sen. Paul Mark on the Green Bank & the floods; Dan Torres on preventing a corrupt former President from running again.

Thursday, July 13, 202307/13/2023

Raining Accusations

In Talk The Talk

7/13/23: Journalist Andrew Quemere makes accusations against DA David Sullivan; Rabbi Riqi Kosovske on eternal life; Brian Adams with GCC soil scientist Tony Reiber on the downpour and its consequences; Ruth Griggs with Kristen Neville of “Blues to Green” on the upcoming fabulous S’fld Jazz & Roots Festival.

Wednesday, July 12, 202307/12/2023

Justice?

In Talk The Talk

7/12/23: Sen.Jo Comerford on flood damage to farms & SCOTUS’ damage to colleges; Smith Prof Carrie Baker on Easthampton’s pregnancy services ordinance; Paul Newlin on W. Whately’s Watermelon; Wednesdays death penalty atty Stephen Bright & James Kwak on “The Fear of Too Much Justice.”

Tuesday, July 11, 202307/11/2023

Truth and Consequences

In Talk The Talk

7/11/23: Breaking media and baseball news with Duke Goldman; Trump’s co-defendant– will he flip? with atty John Pucci; a turning point in the screenwriters strike? with Hollywood screenwriter Jacob Forman; cluster bombs in Ukraine with “War Made Easy” author Norman Solomon.

Monday, July 10, 202307/10/2023

Monday Monday, So Good to Me

In Talk The Talk

7/10/23:  Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on ARPA money, a new middle school & downtown murals; UMass Afro-Am prof Amilcar Shabazz on affirmative action & admissions; WNEU law prof Bruce Miller on SCOTUS gutting precedent; Megan Zinn with editor Kate Senecal on finding your voice.

Friday, July 7, 202307/07/2023

The Hustler Files Ep 24

In The Hustler Files

THE LAST MILE, FOR MANY, BECOMES A FIRST STEP

In 2010, Venture Capitalist, Chris Redlitz spoke to incarcerated men at the infamous San Quentin Prison. That visit inspired him to launch a technical program, for those incarcerated, that would disrupt the incarceration cycle and offer certifications in coding to enable those returning to society the opportunity to find employment.  The Last Mile technical program is now offered in 21 classrooms across 7 State prisons and has assisted 467 returning citizens in successful re-entry.  Molly and Kevin Kelly are two of those returned citizens who now work for The Last Mile as Returned Citizen Advocates and along that journey they also found love.