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).

“The Benign Influence of Good Laws Under A Free Government”

11.12.20 Not ALL lawyers are bad and Attorney Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks to two lawyers working on two very important issues: religious freedom and abortion.

Bill Barr & Baseball

11.10.20 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Representative Paul Mark and baseball historian Duke Goldman

Still Waiting…

11/5: The elections (the House, the Senate, and the Presidency), the polls and the future with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US; then, David Roitman and David Arbeitman, organizers with Western Mass. Protect the Vote on the response if Trump refuses to abide by the election results; and Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on lessons from Jeremiah at a time such as this.

The Waiting Is The Hardest Part

11/4: The election: with Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and Natalia Munoz, News Director of Holyoke Media.

When It Comes To Election Results We’re Going To Have To #WaitForIt

11/3: The election: how the House or Representatives and the Supreme Court may well react — with WNEU professors emeriti and constitutional scholars Bruce Miller and Leora Harpaz; what the election means to immigrants and their families with immigration attorney Megan Kludt, partner at Curran Berger & Kludt; and Josh Silver, CEO of the Northampton-based national organization, Represent US on what the polls released today tell us about Biden’s chances.

How Does Ranked Choice Rank with McGovern?

11/2: Talking the election with State Senator Jo Comerford: Congressman Jim McGovern; Rosenberg Fund for Children founder and author/columnist Robert Meeropol.

How Are Northampton School’s Handling Remote Learning?

10/30: Andrea Egitto, President of the Northampton Association of School Employees and Max Page, Vice-President of the Massachusetts Teacher’s Ass’n; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and
Kathryn Fanelli on Ms. Fanelli’s transformed and reimagined merry-go-round at UMass.

MA Lawyers with A Big Win For Fair Housing Nation Wide

10/29: Meris Berquist, Exec. Dir., Fair Housing Center, and atty Lauren Sampson. from Lawyers for Civil Rights, on the nationwide preliminary injunction they just won
in federal District Court in Springfield; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on religion and the election.

Recent Headlines

15 hours ago in National

George Floyd and Renee Good: 5 years between Minneapolis videos, and confusion has increased

Five years ago, video images from a Minneapolis street showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as his life slipped away ignited a social movement. Now, videos from another Minneapolis street showing the last moments of Renee Good's life are central to another debate about law enforcement in America.

4 days ago in National

Protests over federal enforcement operations after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland

As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis' streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the U.S.

4 days ago in National

Minnesota must play a role in the investigation into Renee Good’s killing by ICE, governor says

The state of Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration's decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.

5 days ago in National

Senate considers limiting Trump’s war powers after Venezuela raid

The Senate is expected to vote on a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, setting up a test for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.

5 days ago in National

ICE officer kills a Minneapolis driver in a deadly start to Trump’s latest immigration operation

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the city's mayor described as "reckless" and unnecessary.