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

2 days ago in National

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

2 days ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

2 days ago in National

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

3 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

3 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.