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 9.23.13

Easthampton Mayor Mike Tautznik running for the State Senate; plus Martin Espada-an incredible reading of an extraordinary narrative poem.

The Bill Newman Show 9.20.13

Rock the house with Mary Witt.  Then, cool art in Amherst with Janet Winston & Rebecca Muller.

The Bill Newman Show 9.19.13

Dick Lehr, author of  “Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss.” Then, celebrate the 25th anniversary of the…

The Bill Newman Show 9.18.13

Special edition of “Your State U” with Max Page; plus Saiya Miller and Liza Bley, authors of Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf–(more sex…

The Bill Newman Show 9.17.13

Previews–first of  Amherst Live, the live-talk zine; and  Voices From Inside with The Voice’s Michelle Chamuel and VFI President, Marion…

The Bill Newman Show 9.16.13

Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella on sex ed.– and the Boston Red Sox! Plus.Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of United Republic.

The Bill Newman Show 9.13.13

WORLD PREMIER!!  Professors Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman on Garden of Martyrs: the trial and execution of Daley  and Halligan in…

The Bill Newman Show 9.12.13

Pulitzer Prize Winning author Paul Harding; then, 98 year old activist Arky Markham. Plus, The Reverend and the Rabbi.

The Bill Newman Show 9.11.13

Legalizing marijuana with  Mason Tver,co-author of  Marijuana Is Safer, so Why Are We Driving People To Drink?

The Bill Newman Show 9.10.13

Live from Beirut: Hampshire Professor Omar Dahi on Syria. Then, union steward,Paul Felton, author of Murder of a Post Office Manager.

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A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs.

19 hours ago in National

FBI investigates Texas bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 14 as possible terrorist act

A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and the words "Property of Allah" killed two people and wounded 14 early Sunday at a Texas bar, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The FBI is investigating the shooting, which erupted a day after the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran, as a potential act of terrorism.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson returns home to South Carolina to lie in state

After a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state at the South Carolina Capitol on Monday.