“Music Alone Shall Live”

2/11/26
“Music Alone Shall Live”

Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer —HOUSING, UMass Students & ICE
Chris Freeman – Iron Horse—”Music Alone Shall Live”
George Kahout — Friends of Northampton Trail & Riding Down Main street
Larry Hott—Larry’s got the Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond, & animation not just for Kids

Fighting for Change 

Fighting for Change  2.10.26
Pat Duffy—5th Hampden Rep—Breaking News: AI regulation, Housing, & Spr. Museum 
Sheryl L. Stanton, Superintendent, Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional School Districts—Fighting for Rural Aid Funding!
Charles Walker-Hoover & Alannah Brunt, UMass, The Beautiful Struggle, on 2/13 (NAACP Week 2026)
Duke Goldman—Will not miss the Super Bowl end, Spring Training,  

Beginning Warmth, Followed by ICE and Icy

2/9/26: Megan Zinn w/ Broadside’s Roz Kreshak-Hayden: books to read & indies to support. Writers Block w/John Sayles’s on “Crucible,” Henry Ford, industrial policy & his antisemitism. Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Bad Bunny, schools, MTA negotiations, icy roads, state aid, & financial modernization. John Bonifaz, Pres & Founder of Free Speech for People: prosecuting ICE agents, the AG, DAs, & the police.

Letting in The LIGHT

2/6/26: Your State U Max/Page-Carolyn Chou, head of Homes for All, rent control & Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on exploding health care cost
Lev BenEzra-Community Action—Peter Wingate, Director of Energy & Weatherization Programs: It’s Freezing
Salman Hameed—Mr. Universe— Science, Kids, Learning & A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis—Elizabeth Stone, ZRzosalyn Driscoll, Tori Lawrence, Light Being—darkness & LIGHT.

Listening & Leading

2.5.26 Corrine Coryat – candidate for 1st Franklin District—Listening & Leading.
Sheryl Stoodley (artistic dir), John Sheldon (Red Guitarist), Robin Doty (managing dir) Serious Play Theatre Ensemble: Red Guitar—Feb 11th at 8pm.
Our House w/ Representative Jim McGovern—Ice, Affordability, Elections,
Ruth Griggs previews Fat Tuesday w/ Samirah Evans & Chris Lenois

Life & Death

2/4/26 Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan: Gov Healey responds to ICE & new plan to combat sex trafficking Lora Wondoloski, Jessa McCormack, Henry Morgan—Peace Dev Fund funding the movement & Phenom’s fight to democratize higher ed. Brian Adams with UMass Professor of Public Policy Juniper Katz on renewable energy challenges and successes. Cool Films with Larry Hott on Oscar nominees for best short documentary

Conversations

2.3.26 State Senator Paul Mark—Money, Healthcare, 250th celebration, & the Pats
Super. Dr Xiomara Herman—Pelham Schools, Difficult Days Ahead
Hampshire College President Jennifer Chrisler–Financial Sustainability & the Future
Carole Bull-Do something! The journey of healing

Quite Literally

2/2/26: John Bollard: “Two Hundred Years of Protesting with Rosa Parks.” Megan Zinn w/ Bremond Berry MacDougall & Lisa Endo Cooper: publishing “lost” women authors. Sen. Jo Comerford: combatting ICE’s harms in Mass & nationwide & state finances. Nmpton Mayor GL Sciarra: If ICE comes to Hamp, snow removal, art & artists — David Rothstein, ice sculptures & the Silver Chord Bowl,

Bills Come Due

1/30/26: MTA Pres. Max Page: taxing billionaires from Massachusetts to Washington State.
Josh Silver w/ Atty Steve Jonas — Democracy Defenders Fund: can the courts save us? Josh Silver: Nmpton Open Media, YouTube, polarization & diss-course. Donnabelle Casis w/ — Tuman & Newman: “Every Day Is Play: The Art of Dave Rothstein.”

Music to Our Ears

1/29/26: The Northamptones LIVE! And fabulous! Court Dorsey, actor & poet and Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen: “Poems with Wings.” UMass Poli Sci Prof Ray La Raja: too much democracy in Amherst? Ehmpton Mayor Salem Derby: what if ICE comes? & other pressing issues. Jon Anz w/ Orice Jenkins: his jazz gems –Tuesday @ City Sports Grill w/ the Green St. Trio.