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).

Do We Still Live In The Great Society?

1/31: Joshua Zeitz, author of “Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House;” The Gallery A3 Art Show. And a Fishwrap.

The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather

1/30: WNEU law prof. Sudha Setty on secrecy, surveillance and national security –previewing her talk this evening at the Jones Library; Alexandra Golikov and Mark Hart, members of the Northampton-Amherst chapter of the Citizens Climate Change Lobby, on pending legislative proposals that could change our world; UMass. prof and PHENOM founder Max Page on the Governor’s State of the State message; and Alanna Mitchell, author of “The Spinning Magnet: the Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It.”

Newman Returns!

1/29: Nationally acclaimed community organizer, attorney, and author Gordon Whitman—his new book is “Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire;” then, Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US on this weekend’s Unrig the System Summit.

We Interrupt This Podcast…

1.26.18 Larry Hott guest hosts and talks with Maxine Stein from Jewish Family Services, Evan Goodchild from Educational Resources for Children about kid produced podcasts and Steve and Peter from the Northampton Arts Council about 21/2 Sundays in February

Niberd Abdalla Is Freed

1.25 The Rev. Peter Ives guest hosts and talks with Attorney Buz Eisenberg and the wife of Niberd Abdalla, Ellen McShane, on his impending release from ICE detention. Plus a conversation with Lucio Perez and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center’s Rose Bookbinder and Margaret Sawyer and Jenn Derringer from Community Legal Aid.

Take Me To The Mill River

1.24.18 Florence based filmmaker and member of the Academy, Larry Hott, guests hosts and talks film (of course) but also about The Mill River and the International Language Institute

The Health of Mass Workers

1.23.18 Max Paige guest hosts but cedes control to women leaders around the Valley, including Mass Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni

The Women’s March Part II

1.22.18 Jeff Napolitano guest hosts and recaps the Women’s March in Northampton and talks immigration protection and opera all with the same guest.

The Womens’ March Returns

1.19.18 Josh Silver guest hosts and talks about The Women’s March, an upcoming benefit for Charles Neville and the Patriots in the AFC Championship

Buz’s Big Bang Of The Brain

1.18.18 Buz Eisenberg guests hosts and has his mind blown about soft robots, Shea’s Rebellion and The Big Bang!

Recent Headlines

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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.

2 days 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.

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Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City.

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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.

4 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.