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

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Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor’s race, capping a stunning ascent

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Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old, far-left state lawmaker, who promised to transform city government to restore power to the working class and fight back against a hostile Trump administration.

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UPS plane crashes and explodes at a Kentucky airport, leaving at least 9 dead and others missing

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First responders are searching for more victims Wednesday after a UPS cargo plane crashed and exploded in a massive fireball at the company's global aviation hub in Kentucky, killing at least nine people and injuring 11, authorities said.

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New York City voters are choosing their next mayor as Mamdani faces Cuomo in a generational battle

New York City's voters are deciding the outcome of a generational and ideological divide that will resonate across the country Tuesday as they choose the next mayor to run the nation's largest city.

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Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.

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Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded in November

President Donald Trump's administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP for November, after two judges issued rulings requiring the government to keep the nation's largest food aid program running.