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).

Out of The Mouths of Babes…

12/12: Jen Pollin and Melle Lowenthal on Hatchery’s performance this weekend; Rabbi Justin David about BDS and the Trump administration’s recent edict; then the Reverend, Peter Ives, and the Rabbi speak with students ages 8 and 9 about climate change; also, Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Dissecting The Gazette

12/11: Hear all about it!! Our first guest is Daily Hampshire Gazette editor-in-chief, Brooke Hauser; then, Joshua Rubin on bearing witness to children in immigration prisons.

A Crisis of Conscience & Constitution?

12/10: UMass professor and Director the Labor Center, Cedric DeLeon, author of “Crisis! When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule.” Then, M-W’s word of the year: “they” (Monte does a fabulous interview.)

From Hate to Love

12/9: Bernice Hausman, author of “Anti-Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy;” Tony McAleer, author of “The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion;” a very special Black in the Valley.

Sunrise Over Springfield

12/6: Western Mass. Sunrise Movement students highlight their protest today as part of a national movement on climate change; MTA Veep Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.

Why Don’t Americans Take To The Streets?

12.4.19 Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed guest hosts and talks with Vijay Prashad from the Tri-Continental Institute about organizing and protesting globally and why it is lacking in the US (except Puerto Rico!). Also Smith College’s James Lowenthal on the disastrous potential of Elon Musk’s Skylink.

Snow Day/Jo Day

12.2.19 State Senator Jo Comerford joins Buz Eisenberg and gives us an update on her work on the Hill. Plus Mary Witt of The O-Tones on her upcoming shows.

The Huge Victories For Massachusetts Schools

11.22.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with State Rep. Mindy Domb about the overwhelming support from Beacon Hill to make our public school systems better and healthier

Getting A Handle On Panhandling in Northampton

11.21.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts with a special Reverend and The Rabbi segment addressing the recent panhandling report and community meeting. Plus Sut Jhaly on the reemerging Francis Crowe Community Room and Max Page with good news on higher ed.

#OKBOOMER

11.20.09 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and welcomes her regular contributors Kate-Albright Hanna and Nathaniel Waring to talk #okboomer. And former and future candidate for mayor of Springfield, Yolanda Cancel

Recent Headlines

9 hours ago in National

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he "won't negotiate" with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.

16 hours ago in Trending, World

Living hostages and Palestinian prisoners are released as part of ceasefire in Gaza

All 20 remaining living hostages held in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel walked free Monday as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that decimated the Gaza Strip and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

3 days ago in National

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

A blast that leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

4 days ago in National

National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks.

4 days ago in National

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.