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).

What to the slave is the 4th of July?

6/28: State Representative Natalie Blais–she reconnects on our show with her former colleague, UMass, Afro-Am professor Amilcar Shabazz, and we talk, among other topics, about the effort to make Juneteenth a state holiday. Then on Black in the Valley, Bruce Penniman joins us to preview the July 4 event featuring a reading of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

The Day of Reckoning for Derek Chauvin

6/25: Crime and Punishment with Attorney John Pucci–on Derek Chauvin’s sentencing. Then, on what would have been Eric Carle’s 92nd birthday, we remember and celebrate him with Alix Kennedy, Executive Director of the Carle Museum, and Nick Clark, the museum’s Founding Director and long-time Chief Curator. Also, ArtBeat with Donnabelle Cassis and Emma Chubb, Curator of Contemporary Art at Smith College Museum of Art on Beyond the Museum– the campus Art Map Project,
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Those Left Behind

6/24: Laurie Loisel on “Those Left Behind: The Secret Club Inside the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic;” Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David and Newman discuss SCOTUS’s
recent decision refusing to strike down Obamacare.

Should 16YOs vote?

6/23: Northampton Youth Commission members Noah Kassis, Dahlia Breslow, and Lila Nields-Duffy on the proposed legislation to lower Northampton’s
municipal election voting age to 16; Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr Jane Fleishman — a quiz and a mother-daughter conversation;
Vaya con Natalia Munoz.

The Budget & The Axe

6/22: Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz on the city’s new Department of Community Care (DCC), the bounce -back- from-covid budget and cutting down cherry trees; Liz Gaudet and Oliver Kellhammer on saving those cherry trees on their block.

I’m Your Venus. I’m Your Fire. I’m Darby Dyar.

6/21: Mayor’s Monday with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; Venus with professors and astronomers Salman Hameed and Darby Dyar.

On being a good father…

6/18: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa; Father’s day with Tyler Stanton and Steven Pascal from the Children’s Trust; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Kiayani Douglas.

Aliens take over The New York Times

6/17: Salman Hameed on aliens; The Reverend and the Rabbi with Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David.

The Police Protest in Downtown Northampton

6/16: Arnie Levinson on the O’Connell apparently longstanding plan development’s plan to demolish St. John Cantius. Vaya con Munoz.

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This

6/15: Becky Lee –a remembrance of musician David Kaynor. The Comedy Quiz on Star Wars.

Recent Headlines

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