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

2 days ago in National

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.