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).
Making money for rural schools a priority
3/30: State Senator Adam Hinds. Black in the Valley with a long-time force in Georgia politics, the former Mayor of Macon, C. Jack Ellis.
Could a post the Governor left vacant account for more of the deaths at the Solider’s Home?
3/29: State Rep. Mindy Domb. The Sci-Tech Cafe with MHC professors Kirsten Nordstrom and Katie Berry.
A smaller footprint for Northampton Police?
3/26: Vira Douangmany Cage on the upcoming protest and remembrance for the Atlanta shooting victims. MTA VP, Max Page, on school reopenings, learning loss, and higher ed funding. Smith College Professor Nnamdi Pole, Dr. Booker Bush and attorney David Hoose — members of the Northampton Police Review Commission — on their findings, conclusions and recommendations. ArtBeat with host Donnabelle Casis and Johnny Moranda and Jeanette Rivera, co-owners of La Dispora in Chicopee.
The Death of The Death Penalty
3/25: Guantanamo detainee habeas lawyer Buz Eisenberg on conditions in GTMO today and the upcoming film and his talk at the Garden Cinema in Greenfield. Yasmin Eisenhauer, Executive Director, and Salman Hameed, Chair of the Board on the reopening of the Amherst Cinema. Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on the recent killings in Atlanta.
Breaking down the Northampton Police Commission Report
3/24: Kimberly Nicholas, author of “Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World.” Dan Cannity, Co-Chair of the Northampton Police Review Commission, and David Hoose, member of the Commission, on the Commission’s findings and conclusions about “Reimagining Safety.” Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
GL 4 MAYOR?
3/23: Gina Louise (“G.L.”) Sciarra, Northampton City Council President and candidate for Mayor, on the Police Review Commission Report, schools, the future of downtown, her candidacy, her vision for the city and her accomplishments on the Council.
The Dirt Roads of Franklin County
3/22: State Representative Natalie Blais on covid and schools, the Climate Bill and the bio-mass plant threat, the unemployment legislation and dirt roads, too. NPR-Northampton Poetry Radio- with Rich Michelson and Diane Seuss. Black in the Valley with special guests Andrea Battle and Marcie Sclove, and hosts, Carlie Tartakov and Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, on the upcoming anti-racism forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Too Soon For School?
3/19: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on the vaccine roll-out, in-person education, the Climate Bill and more; MTA V.P. Max Page on covid, return to in-person schools, $ available to school districts and MCAS; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Steve Theberge.
The Floyd murder case jury selection continues
3/18: More Crime and Punishment with John Pucci –on the shootings in Atlanta and updates on the trial of Derke Chauvin;
Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on the shootings and the racial animus against Asian-Americans.
Skype Patrick’s Day
3/17: Arik Kershenbaum on “The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy;” District Attorney Dave Sullivan, Judge and local historian Mike Ryan, and founding member of the Daley and Halligan Commitee, Bill O’Riordan –on St. Patrick’s Day they remember Daley and Halligan, two Irish Catholics, executed in Northampton for a crime they didn’t commit; Natalia Munoz on the resignation of Holyoke Mayor ALex Morse.
