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 future of the Greenfield Police Department
7/8: Greenfield Mayor Roxanne Wedegartner on the police, the cut to the budget, and more; Max Page, President-Elect of the Mass Teacher’s Ass’s, on the proposal to raise the bar for passing MCAS; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Cassis and Springfield Museum Curator of Art, Maggie North,
How powerful is “The Trump Effect”?
7/7: Josh Silver, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Florence-based national organization, Represent US,
on upcoming elections; Rev. Averill Elizabeth Blackburn, from the Florence Congregational Church, on SCOTUS and overruling Roe and the story of the Good Samaritan.
If Trump is indicted…
7/6: John Pucci, former head of Western Mass. U.S. Attorney’s Office, on what Trump could be indicted for;
Emmy Award-winning documentary film-maker Larry Hott on the Niagara Movement.
The Race for Lt. Governor & Governor’s Council
7/5: Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor.
Shawn Allyn, candidate for the Eighth (Western Massachusetts) District nomination for Governor’s Council.
Unpacking the Fair Share Amendment
7/1: MTA President-Elect Max Page on the Fair Share Amendment. Hampshire College Professor and astronomer, Salman Hameed, with what we are learning about the beginning of the universe.
Meet Yvonne Gittelson
6/30: Yvonne Gittelson, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Hampshire County Sheriff; Laurie Millman, Executive Director of the Center for New Americans (CAN), and Kwot Jay, a CNA student who will become a citizen on July 4.
Pride@Prejudice
6/29: David Elihu Kramer, Producing Artistic Director of Chester Theatre, on Pride@Prejudice. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on his upcoming film about the Niagara Movement.
Considering Regicide?
6/29: Sarah (“Dixie”) Dixwell Brown, on “Regicide in the Family: Finding John Dixwell;” “Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke”— Duke Goldman on the Negro Leagues and 2022 Red Sox and Yankees.
The Supreme Court’s Next Moves on Abortion
6/27: Carrie Baker, professor at Smith College’s Program for the Study of Gender, attorney, and contributing editor of Ms. Magazine, on the SCOTUS decision reversing Roe v Wade; Black in the Valley with Professor Carlie Tartakov, the Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks and Rev. Dr. W.C. Watson, pastor at Canaan Baptist Church and recipient of the Springfield Urban League Community Builder Award.
West-East Rail and more from Beacon Hill
6/24: State Representative Mindy Domb on the VOTES Act, West-East rail, and more; Newman on yesterday’s SCOTUS gun decision; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Ali Osborn and Dean Brown.
