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 Legacy of Justice Breyer

2/1: Crime and Punishment with John Pucci on Justice Breyer and the SCOTUS vacancy. Then, Spencer Jakab on “The Revolution that Wasn’t: Gamestop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors.”

Making It Easier To Vote in MA

1/31: State Representative Mindy Domb on the VOTES Act, legislative machinations and Maura Healey for Governor. Jan Maher and Doug Selwyn on the ECHO-Greenfield Project–Exploring and Creating History Ourselves.

The Continuing Genocide in Darfur

1/28: Dave Hayes, the Weather Nut, on the impending storm. Eric Reeves on genocide in Sudan and Darfur. Max Page on Charlie Baker’s just-proposed budget (and Big Papi). ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and spoken word artist Marlon Carey.

Sex After 70

1/27: Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman. Holocaust Remembrance Day with Rabbi Justin David of Congregation B’nai Israel and Rev. Averill Elizabeth Blackburn of Florence Congregational Church.

Creating The Oscar’s shortlist

1/26: Cools Films with Larry Hott; “Jerks at Work” with psychologist- author Tessa West.

The Movement To Save Democracy

1/25: Billy Wimsatt, Executive Director of the Movement Voter Project;
Michael Quinlan, member of the Northampton Policing Review Commission.

The U.S. & Russian. How close are we to war?

1/24: Mayors Monday: we speak with Greenfield mayor, Rozanne Wedegartner on covid mandates, civilian responses to 911 calls, the local economy and big box stores–the death of the Walmart proposal?
Then, Michael Klare, Hampshire College Professor Emeritus, of Peace and World Security Studies, on the –apparently– impending war in the Ukraine.

The Gubernatorial race heats up…

1/21: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on politics and policy; MTA V.P. Max Page on face masks and taxes; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Aprile Gallant, Senior Curator At SCMA, on the Maya Lin exhibit.

How the TX Anti-Semitic Attack Has Ripples Here in The Valley

1/20: Hampshire College President Ed WIngenbach on the $5million gift and the future and present of the college; the Reverend and the Rabbi on the hostage taking at the synagogue in Texas with Rabbis Riqi Kosovske and Justin David and Reverends Averill Blackburn and Peter Ives

The Bad News on The “Good” News about Puerto Rico

1/19: Cool Films with Northampton-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz and the attorney for the teachers in Puerto Rico, Rolando Emmanuelli Jimenez, on the court-approved debt restructuring.

Recent Headlines

4 hours ago in Sports, Trending

Serena and Venus Williams to play doubles together at Wimbledon with a combined age of 90

Even at a combined age of 90, opponents should still be wary of facing the Williams sisters at Wimbledon. Serena and Venus Williams won a combined 21 titles on the storied grass of the All England Club in their singles and doubles careers and now they're going for one more.

4 hours ago in National

Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion

The struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Yum Brands said in February that it was considering selling Pizza Hut and the chain looked to close 250 U.S. restaurants.

22 hours ago in Sports, Trending

Cape Verde stuns Spain with a surprising 0-0 draw in the country’s World Cup debut

So much for a supersized World Cup diluting the quality of soccer's biggest tournament. Tiny Cape Verde, making its debut at the World Cup, pulled off a stunning upset to shut out heavily favored Spain in a 0-0 draw on Monday.

22 hours ago in Lifestyle, Trending

The world wants more high-protein products, but there’s not enough whey to go around

Athletes and older adults have long used smoothies and shakes blended with whey protein concentrate – a powdered byproduct of cheese-making – to build or maintain muscle. More recently, food companies have sprinkled it into everything from breakfast cereals, Pop-Tarts and potato chips to bagels, tortillas and Starbucks drinks to meet growing consumer demand.

1 day ago in National, Trending

Trump celebrates 80th birthday with an Iran deal and UFC cage fights at the White House

President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the White House's storied South Lawn.