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

Protests over federal enforcement operations after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland

As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis' streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the U.S.

3 days ago in National

Minnesota must play a role in the investigation into Renee Good’s killing by ICE, governor says

The state of Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration's decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.

3 days ago in National

Senate considers limiting Trump’s war powers after Venezuela raid

The Senate is expected to vote on a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, setting up a test for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.

4 days ago in National

ICE officer kills a Minneapolis driver in a deadly start to Trump’s latest immigration operation

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the city's mayor described as "reckless" and unnecessary.

5 days ago in Entertainment, Trending

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are officially divorced after 19 years of marriage

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are divorced and legally single. A Nashville, Tennessee, judge on Tuesday issued an order dissolving the 19-year marriage of the Oscar-winning actor and the Grammy-winning country singer.