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

2 days 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.

2 days 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.

2 days 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.

3 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.

3 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.