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 Race for Ward 1

10/20: Stan Moulton and Lemy Coffin, candidates for City Council, Northampton Ward 1.

The Race for Mayor of Easthampton

10/18: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on her re-election campaign, ranked choice voting this election in her city, and police reform. Jesse Hassinger,
candidate for Northampton City Council in Ward 4 on his campaign and the recently announced closing of his business, Belly of the Beast.

The Commonwealth’s New Lines

10/15: Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on redistricting in western Massachusetts and the proposed “Act to Require Public Universities to Provide Medication Abortion;” MTA Vice- President Max Page on the proposed employment justice for adjunct professors bill; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Maggie Nowinski.

Doris Madsen in her own words

10/14: The Northampton Art Council’s cancellation of the biennial show at Forbes Library with Doris Madsen, the artist whose work is at the center of the controversy. Then we continue the discussion with Natalia Munoz and Rabbi Justin David.

The Scoop with Co-ops

10/13: October is Co-op Month, and this is our annual Co-op Show with Rochelle Prunty from River Valley Co-op; Craig Boivin from UMass Five College Credit Union; Rachel Levey from PV Squared Solar; Kate Hunter from Real Pickles; and Adam Trott from the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives.

Jason Montgomery in his own words

10/12: Jason Montgomery on the cancellation of the art exhibit at Forbes
Library; Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke: Duke Goldman on how-about-those-Red-Sox!

Art to change the world

10/11: Leonard Rubenstein on “Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War;” Steve Petegorsky on the Polus Center and the exhibit at the Anchor House of Artists and also on the Northampton Art Council’s cancellation of the biennial art exhibit at the Forbes; Black in the Valley with special guest Pat Romney, whose new book is “We were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave.”

Tax The Rich

10/8: Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires and author of “Tax the Rich;” MTA V.P. Max Page on hunger and food insecurity on Massachusetts’ university and college campuses and college debt forgiveness for public service; and then–WAM! — ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Talya Kingston

Varsity Blues

10/7: While the jury goes to deliberate, attorney John Pucci hums a few bars of the Varsity Blues; Rev. Donald Morgan, pastor of the Haydenville Congregational Church, shares some of his quite extraordinary life story and his plans for this week’s sermon.

Recent Headlines

2 days ago in National

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

A blast that leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

2 days ago in National

National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.

2 days ago in National

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Judge tosses out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against label over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

A defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group was tossed out Thursday by a federal judge who said the lyrics in Kendrick Lamar's dis track "Not Like Us" were opinion.

3 days ago in National

Troops will miss paychecks next week without action on the government shutdown

The nation's third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay.