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 Coming Eviction Crisis
9/29: Forbes Senior Editor, Dan Alexander on his new book, ” White House, Inc., How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into A Business;” Jen Dieringer, Managing Attorney of Community Legal Aid,
and John Hornik, Chair of the Amherst Affordable Housing Trust, on the end of the eviction moratorium–the consequences here in the valley and across the state.
Sharks & Supreme Court Nominees
9.28.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks about the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Plus a special Black In The Valley with a look at what’s happening in the Amherst School District.
Vote: And Vote as soon as you can!
9/25: Representative Mindy Domb on politics and policy; MTA Vice-President Max Page on UMass layoffs and furloughs; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Rosemary Tracy Woods , owner of Art for the Soul Gallery.
Rise Up & Sing & Vote
9/24: Western Mass. musicians Peter Blood and Annie Patterson totally rock the vote; then, Smith College Professor Emeritus Elliot Fratkin on his new book ” Maasai: A Novel of Love, War, and Witchcraft in 19th Century East Africa;” CBI Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Peter Ives on Yom Kippur.
The Last Million
9/23: David Nasaw, eminent historian, whose new book is “The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War.” Then–a total change of pace –Sex Matters
with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman, and Joey Wasserman from SAGE: Advocacy and Serivces for LGBT Elders. And Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
Fascism Wrapped In The Red, White & Blue?
9/22: Thom Hartmann on RBG and the present and impending threat of fascism in the United States; attorney and Florence -based historian Tom Carhart on RBG and his new book “Barricades: The First African-American West Point Cadets and Their Constant Battle for Survival.”
Remembering RBG
9/21: Easthampton Mayor, attorney Nicole LaChapelle, on RBG and critical municipal matters; Jane Yolen on poems for RBG; Evan Falchuk on RBG and Yes on ballot question 2.
‘Let food be thy medicine’
9/18: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on food insecurity in the Valley; MTA VP Max Page on layoffs at UMass; ArtBeat with Donnabell Casis and Ashley Pereira on Roots/Raices–Latinx artists at the Art for the Soul Gallery during Latin American History Month.
A New Year Like No Other
9/17: District Attorney Dave Sullivan on Justice Gnats and recent front-page news prosecutions; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on Rosh Hashanah.
Remembering Justice Gants
9 /16: Superior Court Judge Mary Lou Rup (ret.), attorneys David Hoose and Bonnie Allen on the passing of Chief Justice Ralph Gants; Janet Jakobsen, author of “The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics.”
