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.

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