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.

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