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

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.