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).

Arch (Guitar) Nemesis

12/27: Archguitarist Peter Blanchette; MTA Veep Max Page; and Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis and Tom Mahnken, cast member in A.P.E. No Theatre’s Production of a dark comedy, “A Skull in Connemara.”

The Restorative Power of Music

12/26: Local singer songwriters with amazing stories and amazing music: Stephan Alexander; then, Nerissa Nields.

Treatment Just Outside The Box

12/24: Hampshire County Sheriff Patrick Cahillane on his proposal for a new drug treatment facility; Talkin’ Baseball with the Duke. All Monte wants for Christmas is another World Series ring.

Happy Kwanzaa!

12/23: Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Technology for Liberty Program, Kade Crockford, on Northampton’s passage of a face surveillance ban and the movement of which it is a part; a memorable “Black in the Valley” on Kwanzaa.

Remember That Government Is “We The People”

12/20: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa –we draw the curtain back on Beacon Hill; then ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Northampton Open Media’s Al Williams.

A Decade with The Reverend & The Rabbi

12/19: Paul Kitagaki, Jr, author and photojournalist of “Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese-Americans Incarcerated During World War II;” Jonathan Wright, founder of Wright Builders, on his new book “Living Building Makers: Creating Sustainable Buildings that Renew Our World;” the Reverend Peter Ives and the Rabbi Justin David –we celebrate Hanukkah and our memorable anniversary (champagne all around!)

Outside: Rio Contrada’s Film About Homelessness

12/18: Filmmaker Rio Contrada and Service Net’s Josh Wren on homelessness here in the Valley; Gordon Edes, former and longtime Boston Globe and ESPN Boston Red Sox reporter, now the club’s historian and part of the club’s senior management team, on all things Sox.

Rev & Rabbi & Comedy & Quiz & Holidays

12/17: NYT bestselling author Julie Salamon –her new book is “An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer;” then, the (holiday) Comedy Quiz, a segment hosts mash-up, with the Reverend and the Rabbi and the Ha Has and Monte and Bill.

Easthampton’s Banner Year

12/16: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; then, the upcoming New Year’s Polar Plunge for the Palestinian House of Friendship.

The Cost of Chaos

12/13: Peter Bergen, author of “Trump and His Generals—The Cost of Chaos;” then, this is for the birds—the annual western Mass. count with owlers Heidi Stemple and Dan Ziomek, and compiler Janice Jorgensen, and OMG member Lynn Pelland; and ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Jill St. Coeur ( art with Donald Trump’s words –this is a stitch!).

Recent Headlines

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.