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).

The Genocide Continues

12/10: Smith College Professor Eric Reeves on the continuing genocide in Darfur; The Reverend (Peter Ives) and the Rabbi (Justin David).

Vaya (Todo El Tiempo) Con Muñoz

12.9.15 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts with Jose Saavedra on innovation in Springfield’s Public Schools and Natasha Clark from Lioness Magazine.

Pipeline Update and Children’s Books

12.8.15- Mass PLAN Director Katy Eiseman speaks on FERC’s acceptance of Kinder Morgan’s frackin’ pipeline application through Franklin County. Authors and mother/daughter duo Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple share their favorite children’s books for holiday.

Being Young & Black In The Valley

12.7.15- Les Leopold on his new book Runaway Inequality an Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice. The weekly regular segment Black in the…

What’s Behind Our Money?

Ellen Augarten Photographs

Will The New Open Records Law Make It Through The MA Legislature?

12/3: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on the Public Records Bill, the fight over charter schools, the millionaires tax, funding for UMass, GMO labeling, and (“save me from myself”) no cell phones while driving; Western Mass, AFSC Director Jeff Napolitano on the Welcoming Immigrants Resolution before the Northampton City Council; Hon W. Michael Ryan and Kiki Smith, Board members of Historic Northampton, which is engaged in something quite amazing and historic and needs YOU; and then, The Reverend, the Rabbi and the Imam.

The Earth Will Be Swallowed By The Sun!

12.2.15 When will the Earth be swallowed up by the sun and where else in the Universe is this happening already? We ask Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed. Just in time for the holidays, “Living The Secular Life” with Phil Zuckerman, and Vaya Con Munoz with Natalia Munoz talking Salsarengue food music poetry and activism with Jose Bou.

The Hot Choco-thon & The US Poet Laureate

12/1: First, the United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera; then, the run for Safe Passage.

It’s Fracking Crazy

11/30: Andrew Nikiforuk, author of “Slick Water” Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry.” Also, Professor, neuroscientist, and best-selling author Daniel Levitin, whose newest book is “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.”

Talking Politics and Children’s Books

Bill Newman talks politics with Represent.Us Director Josh Silver and is joined by author John Sheirer on his new book “The Alpha Dog Alphabet.” The regular weekly segment of Vaya con Muñoz with Natalia Muñoz features local superhero author Keshawn Dodds.

Recent Headlines

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Utah restricted fireworks and declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of July Fourth celebrations as the United States' largest wildfire mushroomed in size.

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To someone who is getting sucked out to sea by a rip current, "Don't panic!" may be difficult to heed, even if that's exactly what you should do. But lifeguards say to not only relax but flip over and float out of the danger.

5 days ago in Local

Belchertown’s Cold Spring School Closing

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