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).

Josh’s Silver linings playbook for the next four years

12/3: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent.US on Trump, Georgia, and the Biden Administration;
Monte and Rabbi Justin David on the March and building anti-racism coalitions.

Shop Nohonline

12/2: On the record: Daily Hampshire Gazette, editor-in-chief ,Brooke Hauser, and reporter Dusty Christensen; Jena Sujat, founder of shopnoho.com.

Poems Helping People Learn A Language

12/1: Thirty Poems in November for the Center for New Americans–with Laurie Millman, Maceo Golossi, Aidin Matinez and Sarah Sullivan; the Hot Chocolate Challenge with Denise Vozella and Marianne Winters.

Mindy’s March

11/30: State Rep. Mindy Domb and Monte on last week’s march against hunger, which raised over $614,000 for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, and then on the state’s current efforts to combat the pandemic in western Massachusetts; Atty John Pucci on Trump’s pardon of Michael Flynn.

Home Release

11.20.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with State Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa about problems in our prison system. Plus the weekly Art Beat,

UMasters Of War?

11.19.20 Natalia Muñoz hosts and talks with the Daily Hampshire Gazette’s Dusty Christenson about his investigative piece on private companies paying for research at UMass. Plus the Reverend and The Rabbi interview Monte Belmonte about the March for The Food Bank

Is the situation at The Farren unfair?

11.18.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks about the toll COVID is taking on downtown Northampton. And a discussion about the Farren Care Center and their proposed closure.

Sex Quiz!

11.17.20 Natalia Muñoz guest host and first talks with 14 year old Lavery Greenfield about her Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive. https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-food-bank-of-western-massachusetts-inc/peanut-butter-and-jelly-virtual-drive
And then Kelsey Flynn and Pam Victor from Happier Valley Comedy along with Monte answer sex questions from Dr. Jane Fleischman on this month’s Comedy Quiz Show.

Mayor LaChapelle on the Dems, COVID and Popular Song

11.16.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with Mayor Nicole LaChapelle of Easthampton about a variety of topics.

A Little Little Art Goes A Long Way

11.13.20 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks about ranked choice voting’s demise. Denise Vozella on the Hot Chocolate Challenge. And Donnabelle Cassis on Katy Schneider and Jim Armenti’s pandemic art project.

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