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).

Senate President Rosenberg & Bach

3.19- Senate President Stan Rosenberg, Peter Blanchette.

Campus Justice?

3/16: Harvey Silvergate on campus sexual assaults. Natalia Munoz and her guests talks politics.

Irish Quiz!

3/15: Pipeline Awareness Network Director Katy Eiseman on Kinder Morgan’s FERC approved ‘Connecticut Expansion’ project. UMass professor Max Page with Your State U. Laura Patrick and Pam Victor of the Ha-Ha’s Improv Group with the Comedy Quiz Show with Mike Ryan and Bill O’Reardon.

DNA & The DNA of The GOP and the DNC

Downtown Northampton Association Co-Chairs David Musante and Marlene Marrocco. Josh Silver, Director of Represent.Us on presidential politics.

Poet Laureates & Endgame Project

3/10: Bill with Poet Laureates Richard Michelson, Martin Espada; Rev. Peter Ives with guest Rabbi; Sheryl Stoodley and Kermit Dunkelberg of the Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble on their upcoming area performances.

Recent Headlines

7 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.

13 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.

3 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.