Caveats

Caveats

5/15/26 (Co-Host Buz Eisenberg)

MTA Pres Max Page: the banks’ demands on Hampshire College and why it’s closing, the MTA’s position on overrides, and the MTA’s newly-elected officers (Max is term limited).

Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: “ The Supreme Court’s Takedown of American Democracy Is Complete.” And last night Texas executed its 600th person since the death penalty was reinstated—a person profoundly intellectually challenged.

Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the state budget—the good, the bad & the ugly, the Protect Act and bonding bills for the environment and economic development.

Students from Mohawk Trail Regional interview Bill about radio and journalism.

ArtBeat with Jason Montgomery (in for Donnabelle Casis) & Darrell Clemmer: “Small Scale, Epic World” at 50 Arrow Gallery in Easthampton.

Klaring Things Up

5/14/26 (Co-Host Buz Eisenberg)

Eric Nakajima, Holyoke Dir of Economic Development: housing for all.

Eric Reeves, Founder of Project Zam Zam: the catastrophe in Sudan and Darfur.

Buz and Bill on local overrides and Prop 2 ½.

Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: the erroneous conflating of Judaism with Netanyahu’s government.

Michael Klare, Five (Four?) College Prof. Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping, the Strait of Hormuz (which they both want open), the Wars in Iran and Ukraine, likely outcomes & dangers ahead.

Illusions and Delusions

5/13/26 (Co-Host Brian Adams)

Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Town Councilor: Hampshire College’s closing — what we know and when we know it and maybe a silver lining for the town?

Emily Boddy & Laura Erny, from ReConnect Western MA: “Digital Delusions—How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids.”

Darcy DuMont & Paul Fenn, founder & Pres of Local Power: The green energy you think you’ve been buying isn’t green—sorry; and more nukes?—sorry again.

Larry Hott & Raeshma Razvi, from Mass Humanities: “ A People’s Guide to the Revolution” — aspiration, inspiration and reality.

Getting from Here to There

5/12/26 (co-host Prof Amilcar Shabazz)

Rep Pat Duffy: Holyoke educators win a contract, the future of the Farm Bill & the Protect Act.

Hadley School Superintendent Anne McKenzie: the proposed overrides – the people will decide soon.

National Bike Month, Baystate Bike Month & Northampton Bike Week w/ George Kohout, Pres, Friends of Northampton Trails & Rick Ranti, Coordinator, Bikes for All:
with whom, how, where, when and why ride & this week’s trips and events.

Duke Goldman w/Andy (A.M) Gittlitz, author of “The Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team.”

Author! Author!

5/11/26 (Co-Host Megan Zinn)

Safe Passage Exec Dir Marianne Winter & author Patricia Lee Lewis: “Story Telling as Healing, the event at 33 Hawley.”

Novelist Joanna Margaret: “The Daughters” –a thriller, a preview of her Odyssey Bookshop reading this Wednesday.

Jarrett Krosoczka: RISE Fest—an amazing literary and art event of, by and for young people at Northampton HS.

Corrine Coryat, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the First Franklin District.

Political Gold

5/8/26 (co-host Josh Silver)

MTA Pres Max Page: this weekend’s election, how the MTA actually works & this week’s SJC  on the income tax ballot question.

Nhmptn City Councilor Laurie Loisel: last night’s passage of the Resolution about ICE, the budget, housing, Picture Main Street, school committee responsibilities, & political discourse.

Political Gold with Josh Silver: what recent polls portend.

Erin Buzuvis, WNEU Law Professor & expert on sex discrimination law: DOE’s investigation of Smith College alleging sex discrimination due to admission of trans women.

ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis & Deborah Way: “What Wears You.”

Security

5/7/26 (co-host Buz Eisenberg).

Food Bank of Western Mass Dev Dir Jillian Morgan: 40%-50% of people here are food insecure.

Mental Health Law Prof Frederick Vars: “Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other,” his own hospitalizations, self-help groups, meds & hope.

Congressman Jim McGovern: the feds v Smith Coll, elections 2026 & the War in Iran.

All That Jazz w/ Ruth Griggs & bassist Matt Dwonszyk: Side of Jazz @Eastside Grill.

Life and Death

5/6/26 (co-host Brian Adams):

 District Atty David Sullivan: the recent alleged murders at UMass & in Belchertown.

Tapestry Health’s Harm Reduction Program with Pedro Alvarez & Katy Lessard: savings lives in many ways, overcoming addiction.

Grow Food Northampton’s Helen Kahn (Tuesday Market Manager) & Aoma Muma (farmer of world veggies): passionate farming.

“The Revenge of the Electric Car” – bringing back the dead—who killed them and why? With Larry Hott and Greg Goff. And which car should you buy?

On the Mark

5/5/26 (co-host Amilcar Shabazz)

Sen Paul Mark: the Protect Act, time capsules & lottery money.

Jehann El-Bisi, the People’s Artist: political & prison art & art as a healing practice, update on Leonard Peltier.

Lisa Wong, S. Hadley Town Administrator: overrides, schools, cuts, taxes & MHC financial contributions.

Rep Aaron Saunders: ICE in Mass, the Quabbin, state PILOTS.

Why It’s Gotta Be

5/4/26 (co-host MHC Prof Kerstin Nordstrom)

Amherst School Super Dr Xiomara Herman: budgets, priorities, special ed & EVs.

Why It’s Gotta Be theater group’s Devin Dumas (Director) & Julia Adamo (actor) on “Legoland”-a dark comedy, coming to Easthampton’s City Space.

Kirsten interviews Bill on “Naming Truth’s Way,” & Bill interviews Kirsten on Hampshire College’s closing—its effect on MHC.

N’hmptn Mayor Gina Lousie Sciarra: Hampshire Pride & a new school superintendent.