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).

Ramadan Mubarak

4/12: Attorney John Pucci on the coroner’s testimony in the Derek Chauvin murder trial. Karen Cox, author of “No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice.” Black in the Valley: with this evening being the beginning of Ramadan, our special guest is Imam Raul Seifullah.

The Return To In-Person Learning

4/9: Pucci on Chauvin; Your State U. with Mass. Teachers Ass’n VP Max Page on the return to in-person teaching and learning and the proposed state budget; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Amanda Herman, curator at UMass. Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Beginning of Baseball

4/8: Pucci on the Chauvin murder case. Scott Coen on the beginnings of this baseball season. The Reverend and the Rabbi featuring Rev. Donald Morgan of the Haydenville Congregational Church.

April is Autism Awareness Month

4/7: John Pucci on yesterday’s testimony in the Chauvin case. Katie Drumm, Associate Director at Pathlight, on National Autism Awareness Month and the upcoming 30th annual Western Massachusetts conference.

The New Western Mass Business Show on WHMP

4/6: John Pucci– Crime and Punishment with John Pucci — on developments in the Chauvin case. Ira Bryck and Tara Brewster, V.P. at Greenfield Savings, on the Western Mass. Business Show and the passing of the baton.

Where does the 413 stand in the MA vax rollout?

4/5: Former chief of US Attorneys’ Office for Western Massachusetts, Atty John Pucci, on the Derek Chauvin murder case. State Senator Jo Comerford on western Mass. issues at the legislature. Then, Hand Across the Hills– Leveritt Mass. residents meet those from Letcher County, Kentucky to talk about guns, abortion, vaccines, and coal.

Newman’s Black Hole Paranoia

4/2: Atty John Pucci on the Derek Chauvin murder trial; MTA VP, Max Page, on the MCAS waiver and postponements; Hampshire College professor and astronomer, Salman Hameed, on whether Newman should add black holes hurtling through space to his worry list; ArtBeat with segment host Donnabelle Casis and artist and Smith College Professor of Art, Alex Callendar, on her new exhibit.

Black Jesus

4/1: John Pucci on the murder trial of Derek Chauvin; Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on voter suppression and the For the People Act; The Reverend and the Rabbi featuring Dr. Theron D. WIlliams, author of “The Bible is Black History.”

Are Women’s Sports Finally Getting Their Due?

3/31: Julie DiCaro, author of “Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America.” John Pucci on the murder trial of Derek Chauvin. Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman and Natalia Munoz.

Recent Headlines

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.