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).
Who Will Be The New Sheriff In Town?
8/30: Patrick Cahillane, candidate for Hampshire County Sheriff; Bob Pura, President Greenfield Community College and Tom Spiro, director of the Elms College B.A. program offered at G.C.C.; journalist Scott Atkinson, editor of “happy anyway: a flint anthology.”
Another Hopeful For “The Ellen Story Seat”
8/29: Lawrence O’Brien, candidate for Ellen Story’s seat; Nathan Stoltzfus, author of “Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany;” then (for a real change of pace!) Steve Sanderson and Monte Belmonte preview Transperformance.
A Little NOLA, A Little Kingston
8/26 Bill Newman Show: The Daily Hampshire Gazette as fishwrap; Tom Manley, President of Antioch College; John Colby, then, Charles Neville, John Colby and Kyle Homestead preview Saturday’s music confab in Easthampton.
Hello God, It’s Me Hampshire College
The Fishwrap with News Director Denise Vozella about the ongoing controversy and today’s DHG editorial regarding Tara Ganguly and the Northampton Human Rights Commission; John Seager, President and CEO of Population Connection (the successor organization to ZPG—Zero Population Growth) on his new (and free to download) book “The Good Crisis: How Population Stabilization Can Foster a Healthy U.S. Economy;” then Peter Ives and Director of Spiritual Life at Hampshire College, Rev. Liza Neal on politics, activism and faith.
Slam & Shame or Cherry Picking? The Gazette and The Hamp Human Rights Commissioner
8/24: Natalia Munoz, Chair, Northampton Civil Rights Commission, on DHG reporting, institutional racism, human rights and freedom of speech –all the twists and turns and tweets; then upcoming refugee resettlement in Northampton with Susannah Crolius from Western Mass. Catholic Charities Office of Immigration, Migration, and Refugee Services and Ward 7 City Councilor and Welcome Home Steering Committee member Alisa Klein; then, Attorney Alejandra Lugaro, candidate for governor of Puerto Rico.
Double Date With Candidates
8/23: Attorney Andrea Harrington, candidate for Democratic nomination for state senate from the Hampshire Berkshire Franklin and Hampden District (Ben Downing’s seat); Bonnie MacCracken, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives from the Third Hampshire District (Amherst, Pelham, & part of Granby), Ellen Story’s seat.
Death To The Death Penalty
8/22: First JM Sorrell, the LGBTJP, with her award-winning Ko Festival story; then Lois Ahrens, Founding director of the Northampton-based Real Cost of Prisons Project; John Fitzgerald, history teacher and founder of the Hampden County Chapter of Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty; Ben Grosscup, singer-songwriter, songs of protest and resistance.
Nuestra Comida
8/19: CEO of MassPLAN (PipeLine Awareness Network) and PLAN-NE, Katy Eisman, discusses this week’s Supreme Judicial Court decision that says NO to pipeline companies’ demand that Massachusetts electrical customers pay to build their pipelines and the future of the Berkshire Gas’s moratorium in the Valley; Neftali Duran, Program Director of Nuestra Comida of Nuestra Raices in Holyoke and UMass professor and co-director of Holyoke Visible project in that city on upcoming celebrations of food ,language, and culture; The Mountain Top at the Chester Theatre –our conversation with director Colette Robert; actor (the role of MLK) Jordan Mahome and Chester Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer; Gleason, the just-released film that mesmerized the Sundance Film Festival, now at the Amherst Cinema—our conversation with producer Mary Rohlich (who is from Northampton) and director J. Clay Tweel.
A View of Vira
8/18: Vira Douangmnay Cage, Amherst School committee member and candidate for the state House of Representatives (Ellen Story’s seat) on the $300K+settlement with the school superintendent and the race for the House; Lydia Pyne, author of “Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World’s Most Famous Human Fossils;” also a preview of upcoming Easthampton concert series—totally cool.
Stan’s Informal Session
8/17: Massachusetts State Senate President Stan Rosenberg; then, Barry Werth, author of the award-winning “The Scarlet Professor”—the gay scandal that rocked Smith College– along with Amherst College professor and composer Eric Sawyer and UMass professor and librettist Harley Erdman—previewing this weekend workshop performance of their opera based on Werth’s book; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
