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

6 hours ago in National

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

6 hours ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

13 hours ago in National

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

2 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

2 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.