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 Madness of American Incarceration
7/27: We interview Dr. Christine Montross, author of “Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration” and
Winfred Gallagher, author of “The New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, An Untold American Story” And we Fishwrap the cherry trees.
Is MA going back to the MASK?
7/26: State Representative Mindy Domb on covid and schools, vaccinations for young people, the Delta variant in western Mass. and overriding the Governor’s vetoes; then Scott Coen (Sports, Man!) and Monte don’t share Newman’s pain over yesterday’s Red Sox-Yankees game.
Carvana Loses Round One
7/23: Al Norman, founder of Sprawl-Busters on the defeat of Carvana in western Mass and the fight in Hadley over the Selectboard canning the head of the Conservation Commission; then, Al Norman, elder advocate, on the new Alzheimer’s drug and whether it should be approved–or taken; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Maggie North, Springfield Museum Curator, on Ai Weiwei.
How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Bleepholes
7/22: Buz Eisenberg, Guantanamo detainee lawyer, on the release of a detainee and the future of that prison; Melinda Wenner Moyer on “How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t ***holes: Science-based Strategies for Better Parenting…;” Rev. Peter Ives and Martha Fleming-Ives on There’s No Place Like Home.
To Tree or Not to Tree?
7/21: We Fishwrap the cherry trees on Warfield Place; then, Stan Moulton, former Daily Hampshire Gazette editor, now a candidate for City Council; followed by Natalia Munoz, Hampshire Gazette staffer, now News Director of Holyoke Media.
What we do to those behind bars
7/20: Elizabeth Matos, Exec. Dir, Mass. Prisoners Legal Services, & Leslie Credle, founder of Justice4Housing, on Sen. Jo Comerford’s proposed bill for a five-year moratorium on prison construction.
https://www.gazettenet.com/Columnist-Jo-Comerford 40184597 ; Emily Widra, Sr. Policy Analyst, Prison Policy Initiative, on covid today in prisons and jails; then–a change of pace–Our monthly Comedy Quiz on “The Office” with Maddy Benjamin, Laura Patrick (she returns!!), Quizmaster Kate Jopson and Monte.
Cherry Trees, Transparency & Budgets
7/16: Rep. Linsday Sabadosa on the Houses rules and the budget; Max Page, MTA Vice President, on federal money for education; Rev Peter Ives on taking a leap of faith.
Goodwill and Ice Cream
7/15: Richie Davis, 40-year reporter and editor at the Greenfield Recorder on “Good Will and Ice Cream: True Tales from Western Massachusetts;” Tami Gouveia, State Rep. seeking the Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor, visits us in studio during her listening tour of western Mass.
Defend Water, Defend Life & A story of race, history, and power
7/14: John Cavanaugh on “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed;” Chrsitina Franklin, Director of “The Niceties,” produced by the Chester Theatre.
