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).

Stems & Seeds & Steves

10/12: The fabulous Rick Steves-Yes on Question 4; Sheryl Stoodley and Robin Doty on” White Rabbi, Red Rabbit.” A special edition of “Vaya con Munoz.”

Faux Mayor

10/11: Breaking news: Silas Kopf faux Mayor; Chuck Collins, author of “Born on Third Base,” on wealth inequality and how it makes us all poorer.

Campaign Spending: The Silver Dollar

10/10: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent.US, analyzes the Clinton-Trump debate and the state of the presidential race; Robert Meeropol, founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, tells us about the ongoing fight for decent medical treatment for prisoners in the United States suffering from hepatitis c, including Mumia Abu Jamal.

It Ain’t Over…

10/7: Longtime sports commentator Scott Coen on the Red Sox; Professor Eric Reeves on the ongoing genocide in Darfur and Sudan; author Micah Perks on “What Becomes Us”; Tinky Weisblat on this weekend’s Gentlemen’s Pie and Tart Extravaganza.

Willing & Able

10/6: We fishwrap the new polls on the charter schools and marijuana ballot questions; then, The United ARC—you want to hear this; followed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on “Gleason” and ALS films, Natalia Munoz on the righteousness of voting for HRC, and CBI rabbi Justin David on the Days of Awe.

What is Question 1, Anyway?

10/5: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg explains the import and effect of November’s ballot questions; Larry Kudlow, Reagan and Trump economic adviser, TV show host and author, explains why be thinks Trump not paying taxes is good policy.

Because of Sex

10/4: Gillian Thomas, Senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, previews her talk at Smith College tonight (and at Harvard and Porter Square Books on Thursday) and discusses her new book, “Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years that Changed American Women’s Lives at Work.”

Honoring Elementary School Teachers

10/3: A special edition of Black in the Valley with Prof. Carlie Tartakov and Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks: Andrea Battle and Roger Wallace reveal the recipient of this year’s Roger L. Baldwin Excellence in Teaching Award; People’s Law Office founder, attorney Flint Taylor, previews his upcoming talk at UMass. about police brutality, torture. homicides and cover-ups; UMass. prof. Bruce Baird tells us about this week’s performance of Butoh at Bowker; &; improv and spoken word artist Seth Lepore gives us a peek into “The Trump Card.”
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Max Page Takes To The Page

9/30: UMass prof. Max Page on “Why Preservation Matters” and whether Massachusetts will move towards free public higher education; Michael Ableman, author of “Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier.”

Polish Pride

9/29: Jerry Budgar, co-chair of the Pulaski Day Parade and John Skibiksi, local historian and member of the Polish Heritage Committee, on Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski and the upcoming parade in his honor; Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and activist (just released from jail—again!) Paki Wieland on the relationship between spiritual belief and political action.

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