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).

An Apology For The Greensboro Massacre

10/8: Eric Chester, author of “Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent during WW I;” Dr. Martha Nathan on the apology from the city that was complicit in the Ku Klux Klan’s the murder of her husband; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on Sukkot and sukkah

Invisible Cities

10/7: Roman Mars on his new book “The 99% Invisible City;” Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, on which letters are published and which ones aren’t.

Larry David to become newest member of Young@Heart Chorus?

10/5: State Senator Jo Comerford; Young@Heart with Bob Cilman, Rosemary Caine and Sonia Nieto.

Dirty Money

10/2: Northampton-based attorney and WNEU law professor Jennifer Taub -her new book is “Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White-Collar Crime;” MTA VP Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jason Montgomery.

The Dangers of The Day After The Election

10/1: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on the state of the race for president; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin –his new book is “The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations; Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rev. Averill Elizabeth Blackburn, the new minster of the Florence Congregational Church.

Breaking Down The Breakdown at The Presidential Debate

9/30: We fishwrap the debate; then, Sam Myers, co-editor of “Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves” on climate change and our politics.

Recent Headlines

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Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

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An aging ex-gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting of rap icon Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip.

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Cornell suspends fraternity parties, gives state police role in investigating campus assault reports

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Cornell University suspended parties at fraternity houses until next year and is giving state police a role in investigating reports of sexual assault on campus in the school's latest response to outrage over its handling of a gang rape allegation.

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Surgery confirms pope has lung cancer and he had the lower lobe of his right lung removed

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Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said. The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery.

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RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34

Actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte, who brought a lifetime of experience with cerebral palsy to fictional family struggles in an essential role on "Breaking Bad," died Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said.

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Selma Blair accused of attacking 2 flight attendants and assaulting a police officer and nurse

Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a trip from Los Angeles to New York. She was also accused of kicking a police officer taking her to the hospital and kicking a nurse once she got there.