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 5.7.14

Betsy Leondar-Wright on her book Missing Class (as in overlooking it); Florence Ladd on The Spirit of Josephine; Peter Blanchette…

The Bill Newman Show 5.6.14

Candidate for Attorney General, Maura Healy & Salman Hameed’s Ridiculously Large and Largely Ridiculous Universe.

The Bill Newman Show 5.5.14

Black in the Valley with Carlie Tartakov, Ingrid Askew, Ann-Marie Caulker; & Dr.Sue Lowery; for Mothers’ Day—the Good Mother Myth…

The Bill Newman Show 5.2.14

Josh Ruebner, author of Shattered Hopes: Obama’s failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace.

The Bill Newman Show 5.1.14

Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate coming to the Care Center & Ann Teschner, Executive Director of the Care Center.

The Bill Newman Show 4.30.14

Suzanne Strempek Shea on This Is Paradise; Bruce Dancis, author of Resister: a Story of Protest and Prison during the…

The Bill Newman Show 4.29.14

In memoriam:Tim Carpenter. Jim Hightower on Democrats, armadillos, health care, Bernie Sanders, & the upcoming Progressive Democrats of America confab in Northampton. And poet…

The Bill Newman Show 4.28.14

Nick Mottern on “Know Drones.” Lois Ahrens, Exec Director, Real Cost of Prisons Project, on Massachusetts’ proposed bail jail.

The Bill Newman Show 4.25.14

Tess Poe, Ryan O’Donnell, Bob Reckman, & Wayne Feiden preview “Pleasant Futures” in Northampton; author Michael Sims on The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

The Bill Newman Show 4.23.14

Donelle Wright, from Jobs Not Jails with w. Mass. AFSC’s Jeff Napolitano; The Odyssey bookshop’s Joan Grenier and Emily Crowe on…

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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.

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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 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.

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