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).

NASA Reaches Out To Touch The Sun

8.27.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Salman Hameed about the NASA probe headed toward the sun. Plus corruption in the Guatemalan prison system and how if compares to corruption in the prison system in the U,S,

Somewhere, A Place For Us

8.24.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Tiny Weisblatt about remembering the way the world was 100 years ago. Plus Max Page with the head of NASE, Northampton’s school staff union.

The Jeff Napolitano Show

8.23.18 Jeff Napolitano from The Resistance Center for Peace guest hosts, fish wraps, talks about the UMass Feinberg Series and worker art at UMass. Plus the Reverend & The Rabbi.

August 21, 2018: A Day That Will Live In Political Infamy?

8.22.18 Josh Silver guests hosts and talks about the Manafort verdict and the Cohen plea. Plus, how quickly is the Arctic melting? And is America committing itself to the “gig-economy”?

Tragedy & Comedy

8.21.18 Josh Silver guest hosts and talks about how half of American households are below the ACTUAL poverty level. But we lighten the mood with the comedy quiz with guest quizmaster, dentist Dr. Sue Keller

It’s Campaign Jingle Season

8.10.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks about the 1st Franklin District and Kate Albright-Hannah’s jingle. And Buz talks with MTA Vice President Max Page about public education funding.

Meet The Candidates For Senate Part II: Jo Comerford & Steve Connor

8/9: Live in the studio — The Nields perform their new ditty for Jo Comerford; then Jo Comerford and Steve O’Conner, candidates for the state senate seat; and Pastor Stephanie Smith from Cathedral in the Night and Cherry Sullivan, from Hampshire Hope, on opioid abuse in the Valley.

Recent Headlines

1 day ago in National

A violent tornado tears through Oklahoma town, damaging 40 homes but sparing lives

Raeann Hunt scrambled to her cellar as a tornado bore down on her Oklahoma community. "It is headed right for us," she recalled thinking, as she peeked outside, unable to contain her curiosity.

2 days ago in National

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

3 days ago in Sports, Trending

NFL teams are almost on the clock as draft night in the Steel City has arrived

Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City.

3 days ago in National, Trending

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

3 days ago in National

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.