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

2 days ago in National

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

2 days ago in National

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing became more political, opposed activist’s views, authorities say

A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist's provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday.

2 days ago in National

The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating

The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.

3 days ago in National

Authorities search for conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killer but provide little about motive

Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away in the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.

3 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.