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

10 hours ago in National

Bringing charges against the Fed: What we do (and don’t) know

President Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Federal Reserve, his Justice Department investigating and threatening a criminal indictment of the independent central bank and serving it with subpoenas.

1 day ago in National

George Floyd and Renee Good: 5 years between Minneapolis videos, and confusion has increased

Five years ago, video images from a Minneapolis street showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as his life slipped away ignited a social movement. Now, videos from another Minneapolis street showing the last moments of Renee Good's life are central to another debate about law enforcement in America.

4 days ago in National

Protests over federal enforcement operations after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland

As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis' streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the U.S.

5 days ago in National

Minnesota must play a role in the investigation into Renee Good’s killing by ICE, governor says

The state of Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration's decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.

5 days ago in National

Senate considers limiting Trump’s war powers after Venezuela raid

The Senate is expected to vote on a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, setting up a test for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.