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).

Old McGovern on a farm

8/18: A special edition of The Reverend and the Rabbi– on imposition of religion doctrine by the Supreme Court — with Rev Michael McSherry and Rabbi Justin David. Then, Congressman Jim McGovern.

Amherst Police and Amherst BIPOC Teens

8/17: Yesterday’s primaries and the Movement Voter Project in Western Mass. with Larry Hott and Micky McKinley. Then, the Amherst Police and the detention of nine young people with Town Councilor Ellisha Walker, community organizer Pat Ononibaku, and youth activists and Amherst Sunrise Hub Co-Leaders, Marisol Pierce Bonifaz and Amrita Rutter.

Fire on The Mountain

8/15: It’s Mayors Monday –we have a wide ranging discussion with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; then, Attorney John Pucci on Trump’s lawyer and his representation that there were no more secret documents at Mar a Lago.

Bill Newman Show 8.12.22

State Representative Natalie Blais on just-enacted Massachusetts environmental and transportation legislation; MTA President Max Page on MCAS changes this coming week; Donnabelle Casis’s ArtBeat.

Pucci on the Case Against Donald Trump

8/11: Attorney John Pucci on the cases against Donald Trump, the search of Mar a Lago and his pleading the Fifth Amendment; Jan Maher, Co-coordinator of the Lava Center and director of “A Long Moment in the South;” plus Rabbi Justin David.

Bill Newman Show 8.10.22 – War, What’s it good for?

Michael Klare, Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies and Defense Correspondent for the Nation magazine on escalating tensions with China and the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Bill Newman Show 8.9.22

Keri Blakinger, author of “Corrections in Ink: a memoir;” Duke Goldman—Talkin; Baseball with the Duke.

Bill Newman Show 8.8.22 – Holyoke Mayor Josh Garcia & Black and The Valley

Holyoke Mayor the honorable Joshua Garcia & Black in the Valley talks about the police in Amherst (MA).

Bill Newman Show 8.5.22 –

Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed; MTA President Max Page; ArtBeat host Donnabelle Casis with Diane Dix from the Nolumbeka Project.

Recent Headlines

5 hours 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.

12 hours 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.

2 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.

2 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.

2 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.