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).
A COVID-Free Comedy Quiz about Cooking
5/19: Author Scott Hunter — his western Mass. ’60s memoir is “and the monkey lets go: memoirs through illusion and doubt.” Then, the Comedy Quiz with Quizmasters Angie and Sandy D’Amato of Good Stock Farm in Hatfield and contestants Kelsey Flynn, Pam Victor and Monte Belmonte.
Mayor LaChapelle on Phase I of The Reopening
5/18: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle, who is the only western Massachusetts municipal official on the Governor’s committee to reopen the Commonwealth; then, brewmaster Gary Bogoff, founder of Berkshire Brewing Company, on the company’s gift to our first responders.
Is It Time To Forgive Student Debt?
5/15: Bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman – her new book is “The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think;” Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on Governor Baker’s plan, revenue shortfalls and the new budget; Max Page and Anastasia Wilson on her new report “Covid 19 Pandemic, Economic Recovery and the Need for Student Debt Cancellation in Massachusetts;” Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis and Jenny Powers from the Springfield Museums on their fabulous on-line offerings.
Saving The World Through Rose Colored Glasses
5/14: Former State Representative Solomon Goldstein-Rose, author of “The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change.” Then, Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Peter Ives on what we say at the end of a person’s life.
New Thoughts On The Monroe Doctrine
5/13: Historian Tim McGrath, author of “James Monroe: A Life,” on the lessons that Monroe’s Presidency has for the country in this time of a pandemic.
Is Baseball Really Coming Back?
5/12: Baseball in 2020? A definite maybe. We’re “Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke,” baseball historian Duke Goldman; then, Steven Johnson, author of “Enemy of All Mankind: The True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt.”
Will UMass Come Back This Fall?
5/11: MTA Vice-President Max Page on whether colleges and the universities can open their campuses this fall and the consequences if they can’t; Chief White House economic advisor under Presidents Obama and Clinton, Gene Sperling, whose new book is “Economic Dignity,” on the economic effects of the pandemic; Black in the Valley with special guest Kent Alexander on covid-19 and its effect on the Black community.
Legal Aid in A Time of Crisis
5/8: Urgent legal services in this time of covid-19: we speak with attorneys Jen Dieringer and Peter Benjamin from Commnity Legal Aid; Alex Friedman, co-author of “The Big Thing,” a new book for kids, on the coronavirus and the silver linings it brings to all our lives; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Kelly Silliman from the Northampton Center for the Arts on our local available variety show — creativity and community during the pandemic.
Is There An Election or Something This Year?
5/7: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent.US on covid-19, voting and the election; Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on community in the era of covid-19; Cody Cassidy, author of “Who Ate the First Oyster?”
The Nursing Home Epidemic Amidst The Global Pandemic
5/6: Daily Hampshire Gazette editor-in-chief, Brooke Hauser and reporter Michael Connors on his front page story “Covid-19 afflcits nursing homes: Care One at Northampton amid coronavirus hot spots.”
