Doing cartwheels over the James Webb Space Telescope

Farmers in the fight against climate change

8/4: Alisa Klein, Executive Director of Grow Food Northampton, and Roger Sorkin, filmmaker and founder and Executive Director of the American Resilience Project, on “Farm Free or Die,” coming to Northampton tomorrow. Rabbi Justin David on personal renewal and resilience.

Commemorating the only nuclear attack in history, so far

8/3: Merri Ansara, from Massachusetts Peace Action and Western Mass. Code Pink, and Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on the commemorations here in the Valley and across the state of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Florence-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Larry Hott, and Natalia Munoz, News Director at Holyoke Media, on the Niagara Movement and the ongoing fight for civil rights.

Is there a secret Grand Jury looking at Trump?

8/2: John Pucci on Trump, the Grand Jury, and possible indictments; Steve Early on “Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs.”

All-nighter on Beacon Hill

8/1: State Senator Jo Comerford on the amazingly l o n g l o n g day of the legislature, the bills that have passed—e.g., gun safety, mental health services, climate, sports betting, cannabis equity, Soldiers Homes, among others, and those bills that disappointingly left on the table. Then, Northampton Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra on economic development and the appointment of Carolyn Misch as the city’s Director of Planning and Sustainability, summertime events, (including breaking news—the return of the Taste of Northampton!) and preparations for the new school year.

Meet Governor’s Council Candidate Michael Fenton

7/29: Michael Fenton, candidate for Governor’s Council; Max Page, MTA President, on the union victory at Trader Joe’s in Hadley and new polling on the Fair Share Amendment.

Under The Dome of Beacon Hill

7/28: State Representative Mindy Domb –so much news from Beacon Hill; Congressman Jim McGovern—so much news from Capitol Hill.

Meet Lt. Governor Candidate Eric Lesser

7/27: State Senator Eric Lesser on his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor and the Boston Globe story about one of his opponents being backed by a Republican super-PAC. Then, Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman and Natalia Munoz—there’s a quiz!

How the rich stay rich and keep the poor poor

7/26: Chuck Collins, ISP’s Director of Program on Inequality and the Common Good, on billionaires in Massachusetts, the Fair Share Amendment, and hoarding wealth. Ko Festival’s “Ballad of a Land Man” with Artistic Director Sabrina Hamilton and — from the Clear Creek Collective in Appalachian Kentucky—
Carrie Brunk and Bob Martin.

The green Greenfield gets from growing and selling the green

7/25: Mayor’s Monday with Greenfield’s Roxanne Wedegartner on marijuana, police, and summer vacation.
Black in the Valley with Jacqueline Smith-Crooks, Carlie Tartakov, Michelle Miller and Amilcar Shabazz on reparations in Amherst.