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).

Sleep Tight

9/30: “How to Sleep Tight Through the Night” with Tzvia Gover and Leslea Newman; the Fair Share Amendment MTA President Max Page and Kurt Wise,
Senior Policy Analyst with Mass. Budget and Policy Center; Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis and Leslie Ferrin.

Hallelujah

9/29: Monte on the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health; Cool Films with Larry Hott; Reverend Michael McSherry.

Live from The White House Conference on Hunger

9/28: Live from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health — Monte Belmonte; Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Is Russia losing support from its most valued allies?

9/27: Michael Klare, Hampshire College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies, on Ukraine

The Police, Roxanne

9/26: Mayors Monday with Greenfield Mayor Roxanne Wedegartner; Black in the Valley with Rev. Dr. Jacquelyn Smith -Crooks.

Will MA transportation get its “Fair Share”?

9/23: The Fair Share Amendment with Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA) Interim Director Joshua Ostroff and MTA President Max Page;
ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.

Does our DA have what it takes to pass the citizenship test?

9/22: The Civics Bee with District Attorney Dave Sullivan, Laurie Millman, E.D. of the Center for New Americans, and Kwot Jay, who spent 11 years in a refugee camp and became a naturalized citizen this past July 4. Rev. Carole Bull (United Church of Ware) Rabbi Justin David (Congregation B’nai Israel) and Miryam Kabakov, Executive Director of Eshel, on LGBTQ acceptance, or not, in the Orthodox and fundamentalist world.

Yes, we Cantius!

9/20: Arnold Levenson on the community effort to save St. John Cantius from demolition – there is a critical hearing tomorrow evening, and a decision is expected soon. Then, the Comedy Quiz with contestants –you at home — and in-studio Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor and Monte Belmonte with Quizmaster Jim Young, and scorekeeper (of sorts) Bill Newman. The topic is emotions!

A Neoliberalism tutorial

9/19: Mayor’s Monday with Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle—we talk about policing. Our first guest is Thom Hartmann, whose new book is “The Hidden History of Neoliberalism.”

Recent Headlines

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The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month. Millions of people could lose food aid benefits, health care subsidies are set to expire and there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it.