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 10.8.13

Northampton City Councilor Marianne Labarge; Attorney Andrew Fisher on bicyclists’ rights; plus daddoes.com

The Bill Newman Show 10.7.13

Special editions of Black In The Valley and Salman Hameed’s Ridiculously Large and Largely Ridiculous Universe.

The Bill Newman Show 10.4.13

NYT best-selling author, John Elder Robison, on autism, Asperger’s, and criminal court. Then,  Heidi Nortonsmith, Executive Director, Northampton Survival Center.

The Bill Newman Show 10.3.13

DEATHTRAP at NHS;an NPR Special: Northampton Poetry Radio; Joan Cendella on Nothing Brave Here; and The Reverend and the Rabbi.

The Bill Newman Show 10.2.13

James Yee, former GTMO Muslim chaplain–arrested and held in solitary for 76 days. But first, District Attorney David Sullivan and Susan…

The Bill Newman Show 9.30.13

Free Press President &  CEO Craig Aaron on our dollocracy and whether the internet as we know it, will survive. Then, Professor…

The Bill Newman Show 9.27.13

The Nation’s John Nichols and Professor Robert McChesney on their new book Dollocracy. Then, the Doctor of Rock, Professor Steve Waksman.

The Bill Newman Show 9.26.13

Smith College food service employees speak out! Then, Susan Stinsonon on her new book, “Spider In A Tree;” Rev Peter Ives &…

The Bill Newman Show 9.25.13

NCIS with attorney Harris Miles; Climate Justice with Barry Febos & Tim Holcomb;celebrate W.E.B. DuBois with curator Eva Fierst & Professors Max Page…

The Bill Newman Show 9.24.13

Holly Near!!  Then, Sam Daley-Harris, author of  Reclaiming Our Democracy & authors Jane Yolen & Heidi Stemple– the return of…

Recent Headlines

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Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

A blast that leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

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National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.

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Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.

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Judge tosses out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

A defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group was tossed out Thursday by a federal judge who said the lyrics in Kendrick Lamar's dis track "Not Like Us" were opinion.

3 days ago in National

Troops will miss paychecks next week without action on the government shutdown

The nation's third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay.