Podcasts: Bill Newman
Bill Newman
The Bill Newman Show. Weekdays at 9AM. Join Bill & Monte Belmonte as they talk with news-makers, elected officials, authors, artists, poets, and ‘fish wrap’ about the day’s headlines.
Recent guests include authors Senator Elizabeth Warren (Persist); Larry Tye (Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy); Daniel James Brown (Facing the Mountain); Chuck Collins (The Wealth Hoarders and Born on Third Base).
The Last Radio Show?
1/27: Bill and Buz introduce Talk the Talk; State Representative Mindy Domb on her legislative priorities this session; MTA President Max Page on teachers’ union rights; ArtBeat with Kim Carlino, Jason Montgomery, and Michael Medeiros.
The Community’s College
Former long-time President of Greenfield Community College, Bob Pura, on “The Community’s College: the Pursuit of Democracy, Economic Development and Success.”
Then, Pastor Carol Bull on the bible and reparations.
The Fight for Rights
1/25: The history of abortion in the United States—and what the future may hold: we speak with Professor Felicia Kornbluh whose new book is “A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.” Them we hear the views of former Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight on the newly-passed ordinance that limits the number of retail pot shops in the City.
No Trump; Less Pot
1/24: Can and should Donald Trump be kept off the ballot because of his involvement in the January 6 insurrection? John Bonifaz, founder and Executive Director of the Amherst-based national organization Free Speech for People, explains why be believes the answer should be Yes. Then, Northampton City Council Vice President, Karen Foster, explains why she sponsored the ordinance, just passed by the City Council, limiting the number of pot shops in the City.
No Police?
1/23: Greenfield Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on whether any cops will be on duty from 11:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. — or not. Sci-Tech Café with MHC professors Kerstin Nordstrom and Andre’ White on rats and people, our brains and theirs.
Today’s the Deadline
10/20: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on legislation she is filing on health care privacy, juvenile justice reform and police practices, and much more. MTA President Max Page on spending for education, proposed changes to MCAS and other priorities. ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Ryan Murray.
Reparations in Northampton
11/19: Sarah Weinberger and John Berkowitz, members of the Northampton Reparations Committee, discuss the reparations proposal about to go before Northampton City Council and the upcoming public forum on the proposal. Then, Rabbis Riqi Kosovske and David Seidenberg continue the conversation about reparations before discussing activism and environmental justice.
Comedy As a Weapon
1/18: Tim Lovett, founder of Comedy as a Weapon for social justice and headliner this Saturday in Comedy Cause 4 at the Academy of Music, joins Judith Roberts,
Executive Director of the Literacy Project. Then, Cool Films with Larry Hott on
“The Janes,” “Call Jane,” and “The Martha Mitchell Effect.”
Mayors Monday Tuesday
1/17: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on Winterfest, schools and policing. Then, our monthly Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, and Dan Torres—come play along!
Rough Sleepers
1/13: Our guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder, whose new book is “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People.”
