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).

Bill Newman Show with Michael Klare; Ibrahim Ali

1/8: Long-time Director of the Five College Program on Peace and World Security Studies, Michael Klare, on today’s announcement about U.S. troops in Syria; Ibrahim Ali on food deserts in western Massachusetts.

State Sen. Jo Comerford; filmmaker Syl Shread; Black in the Valley

1/7: Hampshire, Franklin & Worcester district state senator Jo Comerford; NHS filmmaker Syl Shread –“Boys Like Us”—coming to the Forbes; Garden the Community with Ibrahim Ali and Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks.

Governor Baker

Is Baker Going To Make Good on The Foundation Budget Changes?

1/4: Max Page, UMass prof. and V.P. of the Massachusetts Teacher’s Ass’n.; Hampshire College professor & astronomer Salman Hameed; Arts Beat: Bodies in Motion at the Northampton Arts Trust.

Who Is More Progressive When It Comes To Parole: MA or TX?

1/3/19: Jorge Renaud , Senior Policy Analyst, Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative; Rev Peter Ives and Andrew Moorehouse, Exec. Dir of the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

Ryan O’Donnell Will Not Seek Re-Election

1/2: Northampton City Council President Ryan O’Donnell on his decision, announced today, to not seek a fourth term.

First Night is The Last Night of 2018

12/31: Attorney David Hoose on the shortage of public defenders in western Massachusetts; Steve Sanderson on First Night.

The Cutest Couple In Nuclear Disarmament

12/28: Timmon Milne Wallis and Vicki Elson, co-founders of Nuclear Ban.US (Dr. Wallis also is the author of “Disarming the Nuclear Argument” –there is a new, updated edition.) Black in the Valley—we continue our conversation on Kwanzaa with Professor Amilcar Shabazz; Arts Beat with Donnabelle Casis.

The Untied States of Confusion

12/27: Bryant Welch, author of “State of Confusion” Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind;” Walter Carroll on the upcoming Bach concert at the Academy of Music; Rev. Peter Ives and Safe Passage Executive Director Marianne Winters on community, domestic violence and the Hot Chocolate Run.

Another Dose of Sabadosa

12/26: Representative-Elect Lindsay Sabadosa on Medicare for All; Natalia Munoz on the Northampton police, bullets, and Walmart.

The National Fish Wrap

12/24: Political Gold with Josh Silver; Representative-Elect Lindsay Sabadosa; Black in the Valley with special guest Professor Amilcar Shabazz—on Kwanzaa.

Recent Headlines

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Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

An aging ex-gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting of rap icon Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip.

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Cornell suspends fraternity parties, gives state police role in investigating campus assault reports

Cornell University suspended parties at fraternity houses until next year and is giving state police a role in investigating reports of sexual assault on campus in the school's latest response to outrage over its handling of a gang rape allegation.

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Surgery confirms pope has lung cancer and he had the lower lobe of his right lung removed

Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said. The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery.

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RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34

Actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte, who brought a lifetime of experience with cerebral palsy to fictional family struggles in an essential role on "Breaking Bad," died Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said.

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Selma Blair accused of attacking 2 flight attendants and assaulting a police officer and nurse

Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a trip from Los Angeles to New York. She was also accused of kicking a police officer taking her to the hospital and kicking a nurse once she got there.