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

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4 days ago in National

Facing a ban on horse-drawn carriages, Central Park’s drivers fear for their future

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World Series preview: Surprising Rays-Brewers showdown to open with Jacob Misiorowski’s record heat

The Miz will try to whiz his famous fastball by batters on baseball's biggest stage, opening a new-look World Series between teams guaranteed to produce a first-time champion.