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).

In It Together

1/10: Paul Newlin and Dr. Martha Nathan on the Markham-Nathan Fund and the upcoming Watermelon Wednesdays confab and fundraiser at the Academy of Music; Max Page, founder of PHENOM, Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts on Trump and DeVos and the threat to public education.

The President of College Presidents

1/9: Lynn Pasquerella, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities; Josh Silver, founder and CEO of Represent.US.

Before You Say “I Do”

1/6: Leading American LGBTQ rights lawyer Elizabeth Schwartz, author of “Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise.”

Will We Make America Unamerican Again?

1/5: Richard Cahan, author of “UN- AMERICAN: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II.” Rev. Peter Ives, Rev. Andrea Ayvazian, & Rabbi Justin David on climate change and the new community effort to help save the world.

Newman Returns a New Man

1/4: Noelle Hanrahan, founder and producer of Prison Radio, on yesterday’s big win in the federal case of Mumia Abu Jamal against prison authorities for adequate medical care; Max Page, founder of PHENOM , Public Higher Equation Network of Massachusetts, on free higher ed; Harris Gruman, founder of Raise Up Massachusetts on the new minimum wage and the upcoming fight for 15.

Bringing Light Into The Dark Matter

1.3.17 Max Page guest hosts with ideas on how to stand up to facisim in 2017 and talks with Dr. Salman Hameed about dark matter. Plus, Pam Victor on how you can include improv to improve your corporation.

Turning First Night Up To Eleven (Strings)

12.30.16 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with Peter Blanchette, Archguitarist and Maestro of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra. And there’s a whole lot of Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight

First Night Party

12.29.16 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks to the Happier Valley Family folks, The Fawns and Nerissa Nields about First Night and how to navigate the New Year.

The Godfather of Valley Rock & Roll

12.28.16 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Ray Mason about music and First Night and with Harris Freeman

Come Back, July!

12.27.16 Natalia guest hosts and talks with First Night performers F. Alex Johnson from Colorway and the Ha-has.

Recent Headlines

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A violent tornado tears through Oklahoma town, damaging 40 homes but sparing lives

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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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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.

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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.