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.

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.

Friday, March 1, 202403/01/2024

Before They Testify

In Talk The Talk

3/1/24: Mass. Teachers Ass’n Pres Max Page on school funding. Astronomer Salman Hameed on the moon (so to speak). Donnabelle Casis w/ Tahmie Der, Human Agenda Theater. Community Action’s Clare Higgins on funding anti-poverty programs. UMass. prof Sanjay Arwade on offshore wind.

Thursday, February 29, 202402/29/2024

Opening Doors

In Talk The Talk

2/29/2024: James Swanson on “The Deerfield Massacre”. Harvard’s atheist pastor, Greg Epstein, on life and death. GCC environmental science prof Brian Adams with UMass history prof Kevin Young on “Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements that Won”. Ruth Griggs & Jim Olsen on The Back Porch Festival.

Wednesday, February 28, 202402/28/2024

Words of Wisdom

In Talk The Talk

2/28/24:  NYT columnist John McWhorter w/ Amherst prof Ilan Stavans – Wow!  Documentary filmmakers Larry Hott  & Roger Sherman: “The Second Life of (63 y.o. trans woman) Jamie P”. UMass Prof Malcom Sen: racism & the environment  N’hmptn Licensing Comm. Chair Natasha Yakovlvev: the liquor licenses mess.

Tuesday, February 27, 202402/27/2024

Back from the Brink

In Talk The Talk

2/27/24: Josh Silver: the War in Gaza & the 2024 election. MHC Physics Prof Kerstin Nordstrom & UMass Engineering Prof Meghan Huber: robotics, AI & us. Duke Goldman: the NFL abusing players & families. Dr. Ira Helfand & UMass. Prof Chris Appy (Ellsberg Initiative Dir): nuclear threats & Back from the Brink.

Monday, February 26, 202402/26/2024

Not Your Usual Monday

In Talk The Talk

2/26/24: Watermelon Wednesdays & Gypsy Jazz with founder & Director Paul Newlin. UMass Prof. Amilcar Shabazz & Amherst Councilor-at-large Elisha Walker on funding Reparations. Megan Zinn with author Rachel Lyon on “Fruit of the Dead.” Amherst poli-sci prof. Javier Corrales on “Autocracy Rising.”

Friday, February 23, 202402/23/2024

Woes & Whoas

In Talk The Talk

2/23/24: MTA Pres Max Page with educator & Recorder columnist Doug Selwyn on equalizing education.  Donnabelle Casis with Jaq Chartier on her show with Anne Lilly, & Laura Gurten at William Bazcek Fine Arts – painting without painting, science & art.  Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman on Amhest4Ceasefire, school layoffs, searching for a police chief & living with potholes. Plus a Fishwrap!