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).

I Want To Ride My Bicycle

5/17: The Big Bicycle Breakfast! Live from the Court House lawn with Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, Weatherperson Brian Lapis, Smith College professor James Lowenthal and other bike luminaries.

Scibak In The U.S.S.R.

5/16: Representative John Scibak on Your State U. with host Max Page; our monthly “Comedy Quiz” with contestants Pam Victor and Laura Patrick of the Ha Has and Monte Belmonte and Quiz Master Kevin McVeigh. This is about either capitals or capitols. Newman keeps score—sort of.

Sen. Warren & Newman in Amherst

5/15: Sen Elizabeth Warren on Republicans and Donald Trump; best-selling author Dennis Lehane on ”Since We Fell;” Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution with Paul Jablon, Doug Selwyn and David Greenberg; “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, and Dr. Marcus Ware, Chair, Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee.

Still Talking To The Wal

5/12: Sprawl Busters founder Al Norman, filmmaker Steve Alves & attorney Tom Lesser on the fight against Walmart setting up in Greenfield –the 25 year saga continues! Then, John Bonifaz, nationwide leader on the demand for an impeachment investigation on Trump.

The Pipeline Protests Persist

5/9: Katy Eisman, CEO of MassPLAN, the PipeLine Awareness Network, on civil disobedience and the protest against cutting down a lot of the Otis State Forest in order to install a fracked gas pipeline; law professor and attorney Harris Freeman on The Amherst Sanctuary ordinance, which TM approved last night; SOS: Jim Levy, on how everything is coming up roses—also a lot of other plants and flowers and trees –just in time for Mother’s Day; Lucius Collette, from the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative, author of a new and disturbing report on solitary confinement.

The New Nuclear Arms Race

5/8: Dr. Ira Helfand, Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and founder of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility, on North Korea and the new nuclear arms race; Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans on the future of hate; Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of represent.US, on Trump, Republicans, healthcare, and buying elections.

Traitors

5/11: Nathaniel Philbrick, best-selling author of “Valiant Ambition,” on George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and Donald Trump; then Rev .Peter Ives, Pastor Stephanie Smith, pastor for Cathedral in the Night,” and Haymarket owner Peter Simpson on the homeless and the hungry in Northampton.

Keeping Northampton Fed

5/10: Nathaniel Philbrick, best-selling author of “Valiant Ambition,” on George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and Donald Trump; then Rev .Peter Ives, Pastor Stephanie Smith, pastor for Cathedral in the Night,” and Haymarket owner Peter Simpson on the homeless and the hungry in Northampton.

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.

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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.

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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.