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).

Mayor’s Monday with the Mayor of Greenfield

2/28: Mayors Monday with Greenfield’s Roxanne Wedegartner; Black in the Valley with
Amilcar Shabazz, Michele Miller, Kathleen Anderson, Carlie Tartakov, and Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks.

Should the mask mandate end Monday? Ask Mindy

2/25: State Representative Mindy Domb; MTA Vice-President Max Page.

Learning from history, so as not to repeat it

2/24: We begin with a discussion of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. Then, Rich Rubino, author of “The Great American Political Trivia Challenge: Political Trivia on Steroids” followed by Rabbi Justin David from Congregation B’nai Israel and Pastors Stephanie Smith and Dawn Orluske from Cathedral in the Night.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

2/23: We mourn the passing of Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Paula Green. Then, pieces in yesterday and today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette inspire us to speak with Northampton-based, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Larry Hott, on his films about the Quabbin (“The Old Quabbin Valley”) and Frederick Law Olmsted, (“Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America”); followed by our show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman, on the value of sexual fantasies.

Western Mass’s Honorable Rebellion

2/22: Daniel Bullen, author of “Daniel Shays’s Honorable Rebellion: An American Story;” Michael Klare, Hampshire College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, on the crisis in the Ukraine.

Were “The Negro Leagues” Major Leagues?

2.21 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapple and with Baseball researcher Duke Goldman, about his essay in a new book about The Negro Leagues.

The long road to licenses for all

2/18: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on the good (the great! )the bad, and the ugly: the momentous bill passed by the House this week, the state’s clawback of unemployment benefits, and non-disclosure of certain votes by our elected officials; Rich Michelson and Paul Gulla from RMichelson’s Gallery on Mo Willem’s new show to benefit the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Amdanda Herman, and Aston McCullough and A – on an amazing show at the University’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

What is REALLY going on between The U.S., Russia and The Ukraine?

2/16: David Kotz, UMass Professor Emeritus and author of “Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin,” on the crisis in the Ukraine.
Natalia Munoz, Monte and Bill remember their colleague Chris Collins.

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