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

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Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested again on battery charge in New Orleans

Actor Shia LaBeouf, who was arrested and charged with battery after police say he punched several people outside a New Orleans bar earlier this month, was arrested again on Saturday and charged with one additional misdemeanor count of simple battery, court records show.

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Knight delivers joke during ‘SNL’ appearance featuring US men and women hockey gold medal winners

Knight, the U.S. women's captain, along with teammate Megan Keller and men's team brothers Jack and Quinn Hughes, made a surprise appearance during "Heated Rivalry" star Connor Storrie's opening monologue on "SNL" on Saturday night.

1 day ago in Features, Trending

Triceratops skeleton ‘Trey’ to hit the auction block as dinosaur market soars

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.

1 day 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.