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).

How HCC Helped Put The Second C Back in H

9/14: Long time HCC President Bill Messner –our special guest on our segment “Your State U.” with Max Page; Hollywood editing star Harry Keramidas on the Ashfield Film Festival.

Out! On The Road

9/13: New President of the Berkshire Eagle, Fred Rutberg; Cool films with Larry Hott Smith College gender studies prof. Jennifer DeClue.

A Basket of Deplorables

9/12: Represent. Us CEO Josh Silver on Hillary and Trump, money and polls; internationally renown expert Eric Reeves on the continuing genocide in Darfur and Sudan; “Play by Play”—opening this week—our guests are playwright Meryl Cohn and actor and improv artist Julie Waggoner.

The Results Are In

9/9: Election fishwrap; then, we honor 9/11 with Tom Rinaldi, author of the just published “The Red Bandanna: A Life, A Choice, A Legacy;” City Council President Bill Dwight on tweets, the city screening (or not) of citizen volunteers’ social media, and the Northampton Human Rights Commission; also, Sports Man! Scott Coen on the pennant race.

VOTE!

9/8: Maxine Stein, CEO of Jewish Family Service of Western Mass.—on its 100th anniversary; Penny Burke, Exec. Dir of Northampton Center for the Arts, on chalking the city—the upcoming seventh annual confab; the recently unsabbicalized CBI Rabbi Justin David returns to “The Reverend (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi”—lessons learned while away.

Are U Ready to End Football?

9/7: NYT columnist & reporter and best-selling author Joe Nocera on UMass football –a special edition of “Your State U.” with professor Max Page; Rich Michelson — celebrating his friend and client Leonard Nimoy on the 50th anniversary of Star Trek; Natalia Munoz interviews local author Matthew M. Bartlett on “Gateways to Abomination.”

Is The Wait For Weed About To Be Over?

9/6: Northampton attorney Richard Evans, Chair of the Committee to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Massachusetts on the upcoming marijuana referendum; Tom Manley, President of Antioch College on college work-study; Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on the recently discovered earth-like planet — close enough to visit? Northampton author Zane Kotker on her exquisitely written new novella, ”Goodnight, Ladies.”

Who Will The New Sheriff Be?

9/2: Melissa Perry, candidate for Hampshire County Sheriff; Daily Hampshire Gazette Executive Editor Jeff Good and reporter Amanda Drane – breaking the story on breaking stories.

A Kinder Kind Of Divorce Court

9/1: Hon. Linda Fidnick, First Justice of the Hampshire Probate and Family Court, with members of the FRSC (Family Resolutions Specialty Court) Advisory Board Jim Frutkin from Service Net and family law lawyer Leslie McLellan Brown; Rev. Peter Ives on God and sexual fluidity; Max Page on UMass this week — one first place and one last.

Meet Adam Hinds

8/31: Adam Hinds, candidate for the state senate from the Berkshire-Hampshire-Franklin-Hampden District; Cool Films with Larry Hott; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.

Recent Headlines

16 hours ago in National

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he "won't negotiate" with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.

23 hours ago in Trending, World

Living hostages and Palestinian prisoners are released as part of ceasefire in Gaza

All 20 remaining living hostages held in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel walked free Monday as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that decimated the Gaza Strip and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

4 days ago in National

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

A blast that leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

4 days ago in National

National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.

4 days ago in National

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.