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 Northampton Roundabout Controversy
7/1: Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and reporter Greta Jochem on two local front page stories: an employer’s health insurance plan discriminating against LGBT employees; and the story of
the Native- American artifacts unearthed under the proposed rotary.
Is The Roberts Court Leaning Left?
6/30: Two union stewards from Newspaper Guild that represent workers at the Daily Hampshire Gazette — reporter Dusty Christensen and Laila Hussein, a production worker — on the corporate owner’s decision to lay off 29 workers
and move the printing of the paper out of Northampton — for the first time since the paper’s founding in 1786; Andy Mulvihill, author of “Action Park.”
Should Mass End The MCAS?
6/29: Max Page, Vice-President of the Mass. Teachers Ass’n, on the Governor’s plan to reopen the schools; Emily Widra, Prison Policy Initiative Research Analyst and co-author, with the ACLU, of
“Failing Grades: States’ Responses to Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons.”
How Safe Is It To Send Kids Back To School This Fall?
6/26: State Representative Mindy Domb; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Zoe Sasson.
Juneteenth as a Massachusetts Holiday
6/25: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa; Maria Konnakova, author of “The Biggest Bluff;” Rev. Peter Ives and
Rabbi Justin David.
The Stonewall Generation
6/24: Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman, author of “The Stonewall Generation: LGBT Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging” with special guest Edie Daly; Congressman Joe Kennedy III on his race against Senator Edward Markey for the Democratic nomination; Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
Billion Dollar Burger
6/22: Chase Purdy, author of “Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food”—we’re talking about an allegedly delicious burger in a jar;
then Black in the Valley with Rev. Barbara Headley, Senior Pastor of the Zion Community Baptist Church, Rev. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov.
Senator Ed Markey Comes To Western Mass
6/19: Senator Edward Markey on his re-election fight with Joe Kennedy, the recent SCOTUS decisions, pending legislation in the Senate, and baseball cards; MTA Veep Max Page on school funding and school openings; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Katea Stitt, and Cassandra Holden.
A Banner Week For LGBTQ with SCOTUS
6/18: Lee Badgett, UMass. professor whose new book is “The Economic Case for LGBT Equality” on this week’s momentous Supreme Court decision on LGBY equality; Ward 3 Neighborhood Association leaders Deb Henson and Greg Kerstetter
on neighborhood activism; Rev. Per Ives and Rabbi Justin David on tomorrow’s candlelight service at the Sojourner Truth statue and the directives of scripture.
