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 Bridge To Brilliance

11/7: Nadia Lopez, author of “The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal In a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World;” State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on the momentous health care bill coming up for debate in the State Senate tomorrow.

The Power of Peanut Butter

11/6: 11 year-old Lavery Greenfield on the PB&J jar drive for the Food Bank of Western Mass. in elementary and middle schools in the valley—which she has organized! Robbin Legere Henderson, illustrator and co-author with her late grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz, of “Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir form the Early Twentieth Century.”

CPR For The Democratic Party

11/3: Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution! Charlie King and Susan Triolo on “The War on Labor 100 Years Ago and Today.” John Cavanagh, Director of the Washington, D.C. (and Northampton) – based Institute for Policy Studies, on Trump’s proposed tax cuts.

When Trump Country Came To Leverett, MA

11/2: “Hands Across the Hills:” Leverett hosts tell us about their amazing weekend with their guests from Trump Country, coal country, Kentucky; then, Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rev. Kelly Gallagher star again —because they are stars.

War Tax Resistance

11/1: Iconic activist Loretta Ross and Ruth Benn, Coordinator, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, on White Supremacy in the Age of Trump and active and effective resistance. Then, Cool Films with Emmy Award-wining filmmaker Larry Hott—on two new political films you absolutely want to see.

Code Girls

10/31: Liza Mundy on “Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II,” featuring heroes from Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges. Al Sax and Steve Gougeon, from Bear Swamp Orchard and Cidery, on Cider Days! coming this weekend.

How To Be A Muslim

10/30: Western Massachusetts native son Haroon Moghul on “How to Be a Muslim: An American Story’ (his). Penny Burke, Exec Dir. of Northampton Center for the Arts, on spooky Halloween stuff and Lindsay Koshgarian from the National Priorities Project on Trump’s really scary federal budget stuff; Julia Mines on the upcoming Easthampton TED talks.

Big Brother Noho

10/27: Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight on the mayoral debate and surveillance cameras proposed for downtown; Amherst Cinema General Manager George Myers on “The Young Karl Marx;” artist Olivia Bernard joins Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone.

Is Now The Time For Criminal Justice Reform in Massachusetts?

10/26: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on criminal justice reform — the vote is in the Senate is expected today. Then, “The Sci-Tech Café” with MHC neuroscience prof Jared Schwartzer and physics prof Kathry Aidala. And Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Kelly Gallagher on Charlottesville, where Rev. Gallagher was a peacekeeper

Puerto Rico Is Still In Crisis

10/25: Hands Across the Hills:” Our guests, Paula Green and Jay Frost, as well as other good people of Leverett are hosting Kentucky coal country and Trump country folks form Letcher County, Kentucky. Natalia Munoz and Alvilda Sophia Anaya-Alegria on the continuing disaster in Puerto Rico. (Alvilda lived through the hurricane on the island.)

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