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).
Death of A Pipeline
4/21: Katy Eisman, CEO of the organizations leading the fight against the Kinder-Morgan fracking pipeline, on yesterday’s blockbuster announcement that KMI is giving up the ghost on its proposed pipeline though our valley; Smith College professor Ben Baumer, co-author of “The Sabermetric Revolution” talks baseball and analytics (who knew numbers could be so much fun?) and previews his Sci-Tech café presentation this coming Monday; then, The Reverend, the Reverend and the Reverend—Peter Ives, Chuck Morton, & Bobbie Morton
Stand By For Stan Rosenberg
4/20: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on national politics and Massachusetts taxes; Veteran reporters Natalia Munoz and Marla Goldberg on Hillary v. Bernie; author Ken Ilgunas—his new book is “Trespassing Across America” – on the route on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
A History of New York Police Brutality
4/19- Peace activist Paki Wieland with Linda Sartor on her new book Turning Fear into Power. Kestrel Land Trust Executive Director Kristin DeBoer. Mount Holyoke professor Daniel Czitrom on his new book New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era. Plus, UMass Professor Max Page and Massachusetts Teacher’s Association President Barbara Madeloni on the picket line.
The 101 Best Dingers in Baseball
4/18- Local author Tommy Shea on his new book on baseball; Another local author Shel Horowitz, on his new book Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World; plus the regular segment, Black in the Valley.
Tax Day (Sort of)
4/15: Four representatives from Represent Us preview the rally and protest in Northampton against political corruption and for campaign finance reform. Brian Turner, co-author of “The Hurrah Game: Baseball in Northampton 1823-1953”, previews his upcoming talk at Historic Northampton about early 19th century baseball at Northampton’s Round Hill School; also, Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone and Sports, Man! Scott Coen.
Old Records Never Die
4/14: Professor and PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Mass.) founder Max Page on the ongoing protests sit-in and arrests at UMass over fossil fuel divestment; Eric Spitznagel, author of “Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for His Vinyl and His Past;” Reverends Peter Ives and Kelly Gallagher on Earth Day and the Leave-it- in- the- Ground Movement.
Abigail is Not The Only Adams First Lady
4/13: Louisa Thomas, author of “Louisa: the Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams;” Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Larry Hott, previews tonight’s gala for his extraordinary film “Sci-Tech Band: Pride of Springfield;” poets Andrea Stone ( “American Spelling: Story in Verse”) and Joshua Stewart (“Break every String”) preview their new collections and joint book launch and reading this Sunday at the Smith College Library; and Vaya con Munoz: Natalia Munoz reports on the Latino Scholarship Fund.
Could You Be Your Own Attorney?
4/12: Peter Enns, author of Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World; Northampton attorney Devlin Farmer, author of Representing Yourself in Court: How to Win Your case on Your Own.
The Canary In The Pipeline
4/11: Katy Eisman, Executive Director of Mass PLAN– PipeLine Awareness Network -and President of PLAN-Northeast—on breaking news about, and new protests over, that Kinder Morgan fracking pipeline; nationally acclaimed author and poet Jane Yolen previews her upcoming event at Smith College; Randall Peffer, author of Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat (off the coast of Massachusetts).
Josh Silver on Wine, Charter Schools, & Restaurant Workers
4.8- Guest host Josh Silver talks wine with Brian Wozniak of United Liquors, charter schools with Deborah Keisch founder and organizer for the Massachusetts based Public Schools Action Coalition, and with Clare Hammonds, the researcher behind the UMass Labor Center’s study on downtown Northampton restaurant working conditions.
