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).

Governing In The Time of Pandemic

8.27.20 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and welcomes Representative Natalie Blais to talk about what is going on on Beacon Hill when no one is on Beacon Hill. Plus the Reverend and The Rabbi on the one most important sermon they would preach right now if they could only preach one.

Community College In The Age of COVID

8.25.20 GCC President Yves Salomon-Fernandez joins former GCC professor and guest host, Buz Eisenberg to talk about the challenges and opportunities community college has to offer during a pandemic. Plus two lawyers fighting for voters rights across the country.

COVID Brain

8.24.20 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks about the effects of online learning, the need for curiosity and the wanderlust building for students and the student in all of us. Plus Black In The Valley on how one school district in VA is going to proceed this year.

Recent Headlines

12 hours ago in National

A violent tornado tears through Oklahoma town, damaging 40 homes but sparing lives

Raeann Hunt scrambled to her cellar as a tornado bore down on her Oklahoma community. "It is headed right for us," she recalled thinking, as she peeked outside, unable to contain her curiosity.

19 hours ago in National

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

2 days ago in Sports, Trending

NFL teams are almost on the clock as draft night in the Steel City has arrived

Put aside the mock drafts because it's time for the real deal. The NFL draft is here in the Steel City.

2 days ago in National, Trending

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

2 days ago in National

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.