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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Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell form in the Pacific Ocean as Dolly churns in the Atlantic

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Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, both of which were expected to become hurricanes in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said.

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As super El Nino strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Ninos

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A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.

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Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the smug concierge in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died. He was 80.

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Dolly Parton built a better world, with rhinestones and songs

There are few inalienable truths: Everyone was born, everyone will die, and everyone loved Dolly Parton. Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe.

3 days ago in National

Pennsylvania reports first 2 measles deaths in the US this year, both people unvaccinated

Two unvaccinated Pennsylvania residents have died after being infected with measles, the first U.S. deaths this year related to the contagious virus. State health officials announced the deaths Tuesday. They did not reveal any details about the people who died, other than that they lived in Lancaster County, west of Philadelphia.