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 Bill Newman Show 8.4.14

Rafe Esquith on Real Talk for Real Teachers; then, professor and astronomer Salman Hameed’s Ridiculously Large and Largely Ridiculous Universe;

The Bill Newman Show 8.3.14

Josh Weil, author of The Great Glass Sea; Larry Hott and Nina Kleinberg on “Casablanca;” Black in the Valley with Freedom-Rider Jean Denton-Thompson.

The Bill Newman Show 8.1.14

Paki Wieland on drones in our midst; Bliss Requa-Trautz and Gia Bernini on immigrant children coming to western Massachusetts.

The Bill Newman Show 7.31.14

Clare Higgins, former Northampton mayor and Executive Director of Community Action; Chris Tomlinson, author of Tomlinson Hill, a history in black and white.

The Bill Newman Show 7.30.14

Professor Guy McPherson on our climate change debacle; Alice Eve Cohen on “What I Thought I Knew” with Ko Festival’s Sabrina Hamilton.

The Bill Newman Show 7.29.14

Republican Secretary of State candidate David D’Arcangelo woos us; author Rita Bleiman wows us; then Paintbox Theater pirates whip us into shape.

The Bill Newman Show 7.28.14

Political Gold with Josh Silver; New Century Theatre (Listen up!!—NCT Kids!) starring actor, director, & teacher Cate Damon.

The Bill Newman Show 7.25.14

Cool Films with Larry Hott, the Emmy-award winning and twice–nominated for an Academy Award Northampton film-maker.  

The Bill Newman Show 7.24.14

NCT’s Sam Rush on Clybourne Park; the BID’s Natasha Yakovlev; & Independent Eye stars Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller with…

The Bill Newman Show 7.23.14

Newly-elected Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni;  then Your State U. (and western Europe’s politics) with Professor Max Page.

Recent Headlines

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Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

2 days ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

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The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

3 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

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US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.