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 National

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

1 day ago in Sports, Trending

NFL teams are almost on the clock as draft night in the Steel City has arrived

Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City.

1 day ago in National, Trending

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

2 days ago in National

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.

2 days ago in National

Inside the Kennedy Center as it prepares for a 2-year renovation

Away from the political controversy that has consumed the iconic performing arts venue for the better part of President Donald Trump's second term, Matt Floca, the Kennedy Center's new executive director and chief operating officer, guided a group of journalists through the building Wednesday.