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).

What Will The Fair Share Amendment Mean for Education in MA?

1/2: Barbara Madeloni, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association; artists Betsy Stone & Russell Powell.

The Last Show of 2017

12/29 First Night performers Heather Maloney Ryan Hommel come by and rock our world.

The Last Night Of The Year

12/28: First Night performers including Peter Blanchette and Ray Mason rock the studio; plus a very special “Reverend and the Rabbi.”

You May Say I’m A Dreamer…

12/27: Dreamers, DACAs, and allies.

The Top 10 Higher Ed Stories of 2017

12/26: Max Page, founder of PHENOM, Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts, on the top ten Massachusetts education stories of 2017. Jane Lyons, Executive Director of Friends of Children, on the reporting (or not) of sexual abuse of children in the custody Massachusetts DCF.

Is The Surveillance Veto Now Neato?

12/22: Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, City Council President Bill Dwight and Bill Newman, in his ACLU attorney role, on surveillance cameras in the city; the coolest films ever with Larry Hott.

A Nobel Quest

12/21: Jeff Napolitano, Executive Director of the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice-just back from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, joined by Timmon Wallis and Vicki Elson, on the new campaign to abolish nuclear weapons; Rev. Peter Ives and Episcopalian priest Catherine Munz, Rector of St. John’s in Northampton, on the beauty of the celebration of Christmas.

What Did Michael Flynn Know & Why Would We Believe Him?

12/20: Attorney John Pucci on the Flynn indictment and the threat to Donald Trump; more and even cooler films with Larry Hott.

Is Biomass Good for Mass?

12/19: Dr. Mary Booth on the new biomess of biomass; our monthly Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has; Cool films with Larry Hott.

Is The Opioid Crisis A New Crisis?

12/18: “Black in the Valley” with hosts Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and professor Carlie Tartakov joined by special guest Khadijah Tuitt; Chuck Collins on increased income inequality and the Trump tax bill; Brian Foote, Steve Sanderson and Penny Burke on the first First Night without Penny (in a long, long time).

Recent Headlines

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Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

An aging ex-gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting of rap icon Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip.

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Cornell suspends fraternity parties, gives state police role in investigating campus assault reports

Cornell University suspended parties at fraternity houses until next year and is giving state police a role in investigating reports of sexual assault on campus in the school's latest response to outrage over its handling of a gang rape allegation.

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Surgery confirms pope has lung cancer and he had the lower lobe of his right lung removed

Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said. The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery.

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RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34

Actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte, who brought a lifetime of experience with cerebral palsy to fictional family struggles in an essential role on "Breaking Bad," died Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said.

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Selma Blair accused of attacking 2 flight attendants and assaulting a police officer and nurse

Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a trip from Los Angeles to New York. She was also accused of kicking a police officer taking her to the hospital and kicking a nurse once she got there.