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).

The Encampment

5/16: time to open the (Easthampton) River Valley Market! with GM Rochelle Prunty and Board member Jade Barker; the Encampment for Citizenship with Amy Ben-Ezra, Beth Mattison, Evelin Aquino, Petua Mukimba, and Ibrahim Ali; then, Rev Peter Ives with Spectrum in Motion founder and Director Olivia llano-Davis.

The Bike Commute Breakfast!

5/15: The BIG Bike Breakfast with Mayor David Narkewicz and other bicycle enthusiasts.

The Firefighters and The Photographer

5/14: The new photo-essay/interview book on the Northampton Fire Dept. –we speak with the photographer Peter Norman, Deputy Chief Tim McQueston, and Assistant Chief Jon Davine; then, environmentalist Dr. Mary Booth on the biomass mess
that the Baker administration seeks to impose on Massachusetts—and what you can do to stop it; and then Talking Baseball with Duke Goldman and nationally known Northampton-based prolific sports and baseball writer Jim Kaplan.

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 13 2019

Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on the candidates, the primaries, the electoral college and the upcoming critical Supreme Court decisions; Bruce Watson on “Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age.”

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 10 2019

In memoriam: Dan Clawson. Barbara Madeloni, Max Page, Salman Hameed and remember Dan Clawson and then do what Dan would want—share their immediate plans for social justice organizing. (Salman also discusses Hampshire College, black holes, and event horizons.) Also, on Donnabelle Casis’ Art Beat, a preview of Florence Arts Night Out.

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 9 2019

Attorney Rachel Weber, the attorney who defeated the injunction sought to shut down the Not Backing Down Palestine forum at UMass. last weekend; Jim Levy on the SOS/NEF plant sale at Smith Voc.—heads up—Mother’s Day is coming!! Rev. Peter Ives and Lindsay Koshgarian, Ex. Dir. of the Northampton-based National Priorities Project.

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 8 2019

From Treehouse-Terry Homstead and Maryellen Santiago– and from Enchanted Circle Theatre- Tony Jones—storytelling and moving stories you want to hear; Jaime Michaels, founder and Executive Director of Out for Reel.

THE BILL NEWMAN SHOW MAY 7 2019

Brain Jay Jones, author of “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination;” then, come celebrate The Literacy Project –this is a really moving segment with Exec. Dir. Judith Roberts and student Joseph Lubold; and Roger Gottlieb, his newest book—he has 20 others—is “Morality and the Environmental Crisis.”

When A Surplus Is Not A Surplus

State Senator Jo Comerford on Promise and Cherish and the budget and what we can and should do; western Mass. native and NYT best-selling author Victoria Aveyard, who is coming to the Odyssey! Black in the Valley with special guest Donna Brazile.

Thespianville USA

5/3: Northampton High School thespians preview “Snow Angel;” Max Page—from the MTA convention—previews PROMISE and CHERISH; Donnabelle Casis previews this weekend’s arts offerings.

Recent Headlines

4 hours ago in National

In a time of war with Iran, Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump

It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

21 hours ago in National

Men who brought explosives to NYC protest cited Islamic State as inspiration, complaint says

Two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City's mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, a court complaint said.

21 hours ago in National

Uber’s women-only option goes nationwide in the US

Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.

1 day ago in National

Jury selection to begin in South Florida for 4 charged in 2021 assassination of Haitian president

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti's former leader, plus related charges.

1 day ago in Trending, World

Iran names Khamenei’s son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the U.S. and Israel bombed targets across Iran.