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).

A Springfield cop on trial

3/2: Crime and Punishment with attorney John Pucci on prosecuting police; Carey Gillam, author of “The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice.”

Holding The Governor accountable for the vaccine rollout

3/1: State Senator Jo Comerford on covid-19, vaccines, and the Governor;
Monte Belmonte on his going to bed for the Cancer Connection.

Holding the Governor accountable for the vaccine rollout

2/27: State Representative Mindy Domb on vaccine availability and Governor Baker’s plans; Your State U. with MTA Vice-President Max Page on (lack of)vaccinations for educators and forging ahead with MCAS; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Priya Nadkarni Greene.

Let’s Talk About Sex, Newmie

2/26: Monte and Bill and Jane Fleishman talking about talking about sex.
Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David talking about Purim.

Saving journalism, one columnist at a time

2/24: A eulogy for Lawrence Ferlinghetti; a conversation with state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on covid and the governor; an inquiry into the future of the Daily Hampshire Gazette with reporter and Pioneer Valley News Guild activist Dusty Christensen; and opinion on institutional racism in vaccine distribution and consideration of the Smith College employee claiming race discrimination because she is white from Natalia Muñoz.

Poet Quartet

2/23: NPR–Northampton Poetry Radio–with Martin Espada, Victoria Chang, Paul Mariani, and Rich Michelson; Sci-Tech Cafe with MHC physics prof. Kerstin Nordstrom and American University chemistry prof Raychelle Burks on why and how “All My Favorite Science Teachers are Undead.”!!

COVID in our prisons

2/22: Lois Ahrens, Founding Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, on covid in Massachusetts prisons; Liam Goud and Braxton Brewington, members of the Debt Collective, on the student debt crisis and the upcoming film at Forbes Library, “You Are Not a Loan;” Drs. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks, Carlie Tartakov, and Demetria Shabazz- a special edition of Black in the Valley.

PERSEVERANCE!

2/19: Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on Perseverance on Mars and other intelligent life with technology in our galaxy. MTA Vice-President Max Page on Governor Baker and covid; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Pamela Matsuda Dunn.

The standoff with China no one is talking about.

2/18: Michael Klare, Hampshire College Professor Emeritus and co-founder of the Commitee for a Sane US-China Policy, on the ongoing dangerous confrontations and potential for war between China and the U.S.; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on the role of religious leaders today in the fight for social justice and against religious intolerance.

Dancin’ with myself

2/17: Cool Films with Larry Hott who reviews “All In” about Stacy Abrams and “The Reason I Jump;” a preview of the third of Four Sundays in February with Cynthia McLaughlin and Jen Paulins, founding Artistic Director of the School of Contemporary Dance and Thought and Steve Sanderson, Events Producer at Northampton Arts Council. Vaya con Munoz
with Natalia Munoz on the Northampton Policing Commission’s Interim Report.

Recent Headlines

7 hours ago in National

Men who brought explosives to NYC protest cited Islamic State as inspiration, complaint says

Two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City's mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, a court complaint said.

8 hours ago in National

Uber’s women-only option goes nationwide in the US

Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.

14 hours ago in National

Jury selection to begin in South Florida for 4 charged in 2021 assassination of Haitian president

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti's former leader, plus related charges.

15 hours ago in Trending, World

Iran names Khamenei’s son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the U.S. and Israel bombed targets across Iran.

3 days ago in Sports, Trending

Ohtani has grand slam, 5 RBIs as Japan routs Taiwan 13-0 in its WBC opener

Shohei Ohtani doubled on the first pitch of the game, then hit a go-ahead grand slam and an RBI single in a 10-run second inning to lead defending champion Japan over Taiwan 13-0 Friday night in its World Baseball Classic opener.