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

6 hours ago in Entertainment, Trending

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

An aging ex-gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting of rap icon Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip.

6 hours ago in National

Cornell suspends fraternity parties, gives state police role in investigating campus assault reports

Cornell University suspended parties at fraternity houses until next year and is giving state police a role in investigating reports of sexual assault on campus in the school's latest response to outrage over its handling of a gang rape allegation.

6 hours ago in Trending, World

Surgery confirms pope has lung cancer and he had the lower lobe of his right lung removed

Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said. The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery.

13 hours ago in Entertainment, Trending

RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34

Actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte, who brought a lifetime of experience with cerebral palsy to fictional family struggles in an essential role on "Breaking Bad," died Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said.

13 hours ago in Entertainment, Trending

Selma Blair accused of attacking 2 flight attendants and assaulting a police officer and nurse

Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a trip from Los Angeles to New York. She was also accused of kicking a police officer taking her to the hospital and kicking a nurse once she got there.