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).

Any Good News?

10.10.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and tries to find some silver linings with PHENOM founder, Max Page. And finds some silver linings with Judith Roberts and Maria DuPriest from The Literacy Project.

Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count

10.9.17 Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with David Daley author of “Ratf**ked” about Jerry Mandering. Plus Lisa Papademetriou on Athena classes for young women and Amanda Herman on this year’s edition of Live Art Magazine

Holy Water for Puerto Rico

10/5: Blaine Harden, author of “ King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea;” Newman’s commentary on prospects for sensible gun control legislation after Las Vegas; “The Reverend and the Rabbi” with Rev. Peter Ives, Beit Ahavah rabbi, Riqi Kosovske, and Florence Congregational Church pastor, Irven Gammon, on their interfaith effort to bring fresh and safe water to Puerto Rico.

Are We Ready To Impeach Yet?

10/4: Free Speech for People with that organization’s President, Amherst-based attorney John Bonifaz, on the Arpaio pardon, the prospects for impeachment, and undoing Citizens United.

Is Hate Speech The Cost of Free Speech?

10/3: Springfield-based attorney and political activist with deep ties to Puerto Rico, Raphael Rodriguez Cruz, on the island’s plight and Trump’s response.

Reflections On A Century of Life

10/2: An amazing edition of “Black in the Valley” follows civil rights and criminal defense attorney Dana Goldblatt on the police-proposed surveillance cameras in Northampton and “Cool films with Larry Hott.”

Truth To Power

9/29: “Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons” with author Timmon Milne Wallis and anti-nuclear weapons activist Vicky Elson; political activist poets and authors Martin Espada and Doug Anderson
on speaking truth to power; curator Eva Fierst joins Betsy Stone.

Alumnae

9/28: Five College Alumnae of Color present; then, torture and heroism in Syria when the Valley Syrian Relief Committee joins The Reverend and the Rabbi.

Northampton Goes Hollywood (Sort of)

9/ 27: The Northampton Film festival presents; Authors Mira Bartok, Jane Yolen, and Heidi Stemple on “The Wonderling;” Natalia Munoz on the crisis in Puerto Rico.

Video Noho

9/25: Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight on police-proposed downtown surveillance cameras; beat poet and Human Error publisher Paul Richmond on the upcoming spoken word festival; then, live in the studio! singer-songwriter Pamela Means—a preview of her upcoming CLICK performance.

Recent Headlines

2 days 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.

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.

3 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.

3 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.

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.