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).

What Will It To Give A Women A Real Shot At The White House?

3.6.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with her regular contributors Kate Albright-Hannah and Nathaniel Waring about the misogyny inherent in the system. Plus ArtBeat with Donnabelle Cassis

Pack Your Luncbox & Your Tuition Check?

3.5.20 Mass Teachers Association Vice-President Max Page guest hosts and talks with his President, Merrie Najimy about the cost of higher ed and what local school districts are doing with newly allocated state money. Plus a conversation about what’s going on at the border with Alice Levine who witnessed what’s happening there with Jewish Activists For Immigration Justice jewishactivistsforimmigrationjustice.blog

A Less Than Super Tuesday

3.4.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and breaks down the Super Tuesday results with Nathaniel Waring, Dan Torres and Monte Belmonte

Super Tuesday

3.3.20 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and prognosticates the results of the Super Tuesday primaries with Kate Albright-Hannah and Nathaniel Warning

Healy The Political Divide

3.2.20 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with Senator Jo Comerford about upcoming bills and East/West rail. Plus AG Maura Healy stumping for Elizabeth Warren and Robert Bissell on his new book Best Beloved

How The DuBois Library Became The DuBois Library

2/19: Jonathan Klate on his family connections to W.E.B. Du Bois and the UMass. Library the collection; Michaela Brangan, Co-chair, Pioneer Valley Democratic Socialists of America on Bernie and Democratic Socialism.

Recent Headlines

16 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.

24 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.

3 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.