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).
Professor and astronomer Salman Hameed, abolitionists in Northampton, and some Hott documentaries!
Prof. Bruce Laurie on Rebels in Paradise –Northampton abolitionists; Emmy-award winner Larry Hott’s Cool Films; astronomer and prof. Salman Hameed…
Black in the Valley, The Political Classroom, and Tsarnaev
Former U.S. Attorney John Pucci on Tsarnaev, the jury, and the death penalty; Paula McAvoy, co-author of The Political Classroom;…
Net Neutrality & A Open Fast Internet & Unpluggin from The Internet
Marvin Ammori and Ari Shahadi join guest host Josh Silver to talk interwebs and net neutrality
John Nichols on The Oligarchy, An Our Wal-Mart Update & Colorway
John Nichols from The Nation joins Josh Silver to talk about just how bad things are getting in regards to big money in politics, plus an update on the local Our Wal-Mart movement and F. Alex Johnson from Colorway
What’s The Latest on Medical Pot?
Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with Ezra Parzybok about what’s gone wrong with medical pot in Mass.
Anonymous Tips, Charter Schools & Holiday Cheer
12.24.14 Criminal defense attorney Richard Rubin on the Text-A-Tip Program; Henry Wheaton from Show Circus Studio.
Ebola & Improv
12.23.14 Dr. Susan Lowery and Marina Goldman on Ebola—epidemic or abated? Laura Patrick, improv artist and founder of the Ha…
Decrying The Murder of Police & Standing Up For Walmart Employees
Josh Silver, CEO of Represent Us, on our bought congress; Peter Wagner, Director of the Prison Policy Initiative on the fleecing of the families of the incarcerated; two local Walmart workers fired for exercising their supposedly guaranteed labor law rights (Walmart has its own laws).
The Smartest Person We Know
The smartest person we know—doctor of philosophy, nationally renown medical ethicist, and the President of Mount Holyoke College—Lynn Pasquerella.
