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).
Do the Democrats have any chance of holding The House?
10/14 Josh Silver on Northampton School Committee and covid protocols and national politics; Northampton-based capital defense attorney David Hoose on the Parkland School massacre verdict;
ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Sondra Peron and Kamasi J. Barnette.
Fighting tooth and nail for Yes on 2
10/13: Marty Wohl, founder of Wohl Family Dentistry in Northampton, on Question 2 on November’s ballot—
which poses the question: what will your dental plan pay for and how much? Then, David Three rabbis walk into a radio show and… (you’ll see—or hear) Rabbis Justin David, Riqi Kosovske and David Seidenberg.
The Co-op Show
10/12: Live from the River Valley Co-op in Easthampton — our Annual Co-op Show starring Lynn Benander from Co-op Power, Craig Boivin from UMass Five College Credit Union, Jason Carpenter from Downtown Sounds, Larisa Demos from the Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives and Flat Iron Coffee House, Lloyd Miller from Old Creamery Co-op and Rochelle Prunty from River Valley Co-op.
SPIDERS!
10/11: The Sci-Tech Café—who knew spiders could be so cool? We hear amazing things from UMass. Professor of Biology Beth Jakob, joined by Sci-Tech Café founder and MHC Professor of Physics, Kathy Aidala.
Also, Sports, Man! Scott Coen – on the baseball playoffs.
Putin’s next move
10/10: Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies, Michael Klare, on recent developments in the War in Ukraine and the possibility of escalation to a nuclear conflict. Newly-weds Jane Yolen, 83, and Peter Tacy, 85, authors and poets, on their new collaborative work, “The Black Dog Poems,” and their upcoming reading at the Easthampton Library.
New news on Saturn’s rings
10/7: Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Max Page on the Fair Share Amendment; Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on NASA shooting at asteroids and the rings of Saturn; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Terry Rooney on WOW-Wild Ornery Women.
Thou Shall Not Mess with Freedom of Press
10/6: Former DHG Editor and investigative reporter and a managing editor at the Berkshire Eagle, Larry Parnass, and his lawyer, Jeffrey Pyle, from South Hadley, on the firestorm and legal case involving sex scandals and the Archdiocese of Springfield and its demand for Parnass’ notes and information about his confidential sources. Veteran Washington reporter and editor Owen Ullman, coming to Northampton next Tuesday, on inflation, politics, energy, oil and “Empathy Economics: Janet Yellin’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All.”
Reimagining Downtown Northampton
10/5: Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra and Chief of Staff Alan Wolf on economic development opportunities and the post-covid economy in Northampton. Then, new happenings at the Arts Trust Building, 33 Hawley, and A.P.E. with Sheryl Stoodley, Marina Zurita, and Molly Maxner.
How much legal trouble is Trump in?
10/4: Western Mass. Attorney John Pucci explains what’s happening with Trump’s legal cases involving the Mar-a-Lago search; Phil Allen, Jr., whose new book is “The Prophetic Lens” The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier;” then, take a bike ride with the Mayor –we speak with George Kohout and Elena Huisman from Safe Streets Northampton.
Federal money in Northampton for good ideas
10/3: State Senator Jo Comerford on the ballot questions; Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink who is speaking in Northampton tonight, on Ukraine. Her new book is “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.”
