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 Democratic Candidates for Governor’s Council

8/31: The four candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor’s Council from Western Mass: Shawn Allyn, Michael Fentin, Tara Jacob’s, and Jeffrey Morneau.

Taking time to remember

8/30: State Representative Mindy Domb on observances: COVID Remembrance Day and Overdose Awareness Day; Monte and David Boles on the Source to Sea Clean-up.

A threatened democracy is the U.S.’s highest concern

8.24.22 Josh Silver from Represent.us guest hosts and talks elections with Mark McKinnon from Showtime’s “The Circus.” digital disinformation with Kelsey Suter from GQR and masks in Northampton schools with Greg Schwartz

Wingenbach to School

8/23: Edward Wingenbach, President of Hampshire College; Doug Selwyn, author of “The Center of All Possibilities: Transforming Education for Our Children’s Future.”

On the censure of a Greenfield councilor

8/22: Mayors Monday with Greenfield Mayor Roxanne Wedegartner on back to school and covid, West-East rail, a city councilor censured, and police issues; Black in the Valley on the Amherst detention of bipoc youth on July 5 (the “You have no rights” incident) with Rev. Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Professor Carlie Tartakov, Amherst at-large Town Councilor Ellisha Walker, Executive Director of Citizens for Juvenile Justice, Attorney Leon Smith, and Chair of the Progressive Coalition of Amherst, Pat Ononibaku.

Leonard Baskin at 100

8/19: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on the $ billion question and other matters we care a lot about; then, Hoise Baskin, Rich Michelson and Paul Gulla on the Leonard Baskin 100th birthday show at the RMichelson Gallery.

Recent Headlines

3 days ago in National

Facing a ban on horse-drawn carriages, Central Park’s drivers fear for their future

The horse-drawn carriages that have cruised through Central Park for more than 150 years will soon be banished from New York City, ending an iconic tradition beloved by tourists but long opposed by animal welfare activists.

3 days ago in Sports, Trending

World Series preview: Surprising Rays-Brewers showdown to open with Jacob Misiorowski’s record heat

The Miz will try to whiz his famous fastball by batters on baseball's biggest stage, opening a new-look World Series between teams guaranteed to produce a first-time champion.

3 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Tom Skerritt, Emmy-winning actor with roles in ‘Picket Fences,’ ‘Alien’ and ‘Top Gun,’ dies at 93

Tom Skerritt, the Emmy-winning actor who embodied a solid, wry authority figure, whether as a flight instructor in "Top Gun," a tough-but-fair sheriff on TV's "Picket Fences" or the doomed captain of "Alien," has died. He was 93.

3 days ago in Sports, Trending

Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries 97-71 for a 2-1 lead in the WNBA Finals

Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream are halfway toward their ultimate goal of winning the franchise's first WNBA championship.

3 days ago in National

Violent Arizona storms bring possible tornado, toppled trees and golf ball-size hail

Trees fell onto homes and utility poles were knocked down by a possible tornado in a central Arizona community during a series of violent storms that moved through the state overnight into Thursday.