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 Mayor of New Orleans & His Profile In Courage

3/28: “Cool Films with Larry Hott” and political filmmaker, now political candidate, Kate Albright-Hanna; New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu whose new book is “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History.”

Good Vibrations

3/27: “Your State U” with PHENOM founder Max Page; “Sex Matters” with sexologist Jane Fleishman.

Compassion: Karuna in Rwanda

3/26: Olivia Dreier, Director of the Amherst-based Karuna Center for Peacebuilding on the reconciliation work in Rwanda, featured in this month’s National Geographic.

LGBTQ in the era of T-R-U-M-P

3/23: Professor Lisa Stulberg, author of “LGBTQ Social Movements;” Olivia Dreier, Director of the Amherst-based Karuna Center for Peacebuilding –on the Center’s reconciliation program in Rwanda, featured in this month’s
National Geographic.

How Big Will Northampton Education Foundation’s Endowment Bee?

3/22: To bee or not to bee (the $1 million question) with Queen Bee Jeanne Hoose and NEF Board Member Megan Zinn; ranked choice voting –tonight’s presentation at Amherst College with Liz Popolo, Linda Castronovo and Andy Anderson; the Sci-Tech café on cosmic M &As with MHC prof Kathy Aidala; a very special Reverend and the Rabbi.

The Wall

3/21: Amherst College Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans—his new book is titled “The Wall;” Laura Patrick from the Ha Has and Jen Roberge from the Valley’s Women’s Business Owners Alliance (WBOA), on the upcoming confab, improv show and extravaganza to benefit the WBOA and Girls, Inc.

Cherish Public Education

3/20: Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni with PHENOM, Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts, founder Max Page; then, the Comedy Quiz—How to Fail in Business Without Really Trying!

St. Patrick’s Day Version of the Bill Newman Show

St. Patrick’s Day version of the Bill Newman Show, live from Fitzwilly’s

Bill Newman Featuring the Reverend and the Rabbi

The Power of An Equitable Community at All Souls Unitarian Universalist is on SATURDAY, MARCH 17, not tomorrow (Apologies from Bill who missipoke!
Today’s show: Interview with Chuck Collins, the Keynote Speaker. Also, Yaron Brook, Chair of the Ayn Rand Institute on the 75th anniversary of publication of “The Fountainhead;”
Cassandra Holden, Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David on single-room occupancy in Northampton, the exhibit at Historic Northampton.

Recent Headlines

13 hours ago in National

In a time of war with Iran, Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump

It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

1 day ago in National

Men who brought explosives to NYC protest cited Islamic State as inspiration, complaint says

Two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City's mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, a court complaint said.

1 day ago in National

Uber’s women-only option goes nationwide in the US

Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.

2 days ago in National

Jury selection to begin in South Florida for 4 charged in 2021 assassination of Haitian president

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti's former leader, plus related charges.

2 days ago in Trending, World

Iran names Khamenei’s son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the U.S. and Israel bombed targets across Iran.