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 next generation of The PB&J Drive

11/11: The history and future of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive with PB&J Drive founder, Lavery, now age 16, and Landon, designated successor-director, age 8. What the passage of the Fair Share Amendment, ballot question 1, means for the Commonwealth – with Marie-Frances Rivera, President of Mass. Public & Policy Center, and Max Page, President of Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n. Then, ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Chris Ferry — on the Easthampton Film Festival.

The Room Where It Happens

11/10: Sut Jhally, Exec. Dir., Media Education Project, Betsy Speeter and Elliot Fratkin on the new Frances Crowe, Greg Speeter and Marty Nathan Community Meeting Room and Sunday’s dedication ceremony featuring Senator Jo Comerford; Beit Ahavah, Florence’s reform synagogue, Rabbi Riqi Kosovske, and Tovah Lazaroff, from the Jerusalem Post, on the politics of Israel and the United States.

The results are (almost) in

11/9: Our local election coverage continues. Also, Cool Films with Florence-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Larry Hott.

Young@Heart is Over The Hill

11/8: The Young@Heart Chorus with founder/director Bob Cilman on the upcoming 40th anniversary show, starring — and with us in the studio– Dora Morrow (who is 100) and Helen Boston (who is 92).

“Yes” to the Fourth Power

11//7: State Senator Jo Comerford on the elections. ACLU of Massachusetts Field Director Laura Rotolo on Ballot Question 4.

The devil is in the details on Question 1

11.4.22 Monte Belmonte plays guest host and plays devil’s advocate when discussing the Fair Share Amendment, Ballot Question 1. Plus, Salman Hameed on COP27-the international climate conference. And ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, talking Open Studios.

A Question 4 Roundtable

A look at The Work & Family Mobility Act from D.A, Dave Sullivan, a farmer from Hadley and the PV Worker’s Center

What is it like living in a war zone?

11/2: A Ukrainian Peace activist, in western Mass. on a sojourn from Kyiv, speaks to us about living in midst of the war and the prospects for peace.

An impartial jury for the President?

11/1: Former head of the western Mass. US Atty’s Office, John Pucci, on the legal travails of Donald Trump. More Northampton Poetry Radio with Rich Michelson and Nathan McClain.

Recent Headlines

17 hours 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.

17 hours 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.

1 day 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.

2 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.

2 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.