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…

Recent Headlines

2 days ago in National

Protests over federal enforcement operations after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland

As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis' streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the U.S.

3 days ago in National

Minnesota must play a role in the investigation into Renee Good’s killing by ICE, governor says

The state of Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration's decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.

3 days ago in National

Senate considers limiting Trump’s war powers after Venezuela raid

The Senate is expected to vote on a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, setting up a test for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.

4 days ago in National

ICE officer kills a Minneapolis driver in a deadly start to Trump’s latest immigration operation

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the city's mayor described as "reckless" and unnecessary.

5 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are officially divorced after 19 years of marriage

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are divorced and legally single. A Nashville, Tennessee, judge on Tuesday issued an order dissolving the 19-year marriage of the Oscar-winning actor and the Grammy-winning country singer.