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 War in Ukraine and Its Global Implications

3/29: The World Asunder with Nation Magazine Defense Correspondent and Hampshire College Professor Emeritus Michael Klare and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation, Sut Jhally. Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman.

The Cost of Gas To Greenfield

3/28: Mayors Monday with Greenfield Mayor Roxanne Wedegartner. Black in the Valley with PVPA School’s Dean of Students Kendrick Roundtree and students on their upcoming trip to HBCUs.

Why shut down the COVID test sites now?

3/25: State Representative Mindy Domb; Four Sundays in April with Northampton Arts Council’s Peter McQuillan.

Some Hott Oscar Insight

3/24: Larry Hott on the costumes we wear and the Oscars we’ll watch. Greg Bluestein, pre-eminent political reporter and author of “Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power.”

Crossing Borders

3/23: Ali Noorani, author Of “Crossing Borders: A Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants;” Joe Ricker, Artistic Director of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra; Vaya con Munoz. With Natalia Munoz.

Tyranny: A History

3/22: Marissa Perez, Hampshire College student, poet and performer with Denice Frohman at the Academy of Music this weekend. Andrew Fiala, author of “Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Tyranny, Sycophants, and Citizens.”

A War of Attrition?

3/21: Michael Klare, Hampshire and Five College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies and Defense Correspondent for the Nation Magazine, on the War in Ukraine. Michael Kazin, author of “What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party.”

Hair To The Crown (Act)

3/18: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa; MTA Vice President Max Page and Saul Ramos, First Vice-President of the union of Education Support Professionals in Worcester; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Claudia Ruiz Gustafson.

Remembering Daley & Halligan

3/17: “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs” — we speak with Carle Museum Chief Curator Ellen Keiter about the Eric Carle retrospective at the museum. Then we observe St. Patrick’s Day with Rev. Peter Ives and Bill O’Riordan – we focus on the hanging in Northampton of two Irish immigrants —Daley and Halligan—for a crime they did not commit.

Cinema Pandemia

3/16: Cool Films with Larry Hott and Laura Wetzler, whose new film is “What Happened at the Veterans Home? The Story of Three Heroic Women Who refused to Be Silenced.”

Recent Headlines

16 minutes ago in National

Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell form in the Pacific Ocean as Dolly churns in the Atlantic

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Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, both of which were expected to become hurricanes in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said.

22 minutes ago in National

As super El Nino strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Ninos

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A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the smug concierge in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died. He was 80.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Dolly Parton built a better world, with rhinestones and songs

There are few inalienable truths: Everyone was born, everyone will die, and everyone loved Dolly Parton. Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe.

3 days ago in National

Pennsylvania reports first 2 measles deaths in the US this year, both people unvaccinated

Two unvaccinated Pennsylvania residents have died after being infected with measles, the first U.S. deaths this year related to the contagious virus. State health officials announced the deaths Tuesday. They did not reveal any details about the people who died, other than that they lived in Lancaster County, west of Philadelphia.