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

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Nashville International Airport would be renamed for Dolly Parton under a proposal announced Friday by Tennessee's governor.

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Tropical Storms Karina and Lowell formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, both of which were expected to become hurricanes in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said.

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As super El Nino strengthens, study suggests that climate change is intensifying El Ninos

A new study suggests that El Ninos — the natural climatic chaos agent that pops up periodically and spikes global temperatures — are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change.

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Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the smug concierge in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," has died. He was 80.

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Dolly Parton built a better world, with rhinestones and songs

There are few inalienable truths: Everyone was born, everyone will die, and everyone loved Dolly Parton. Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe.