10/26/26, Co-Host—Andy Bukowski
Megan Zinn interviews author Lisa Kleypas, whose new novel is “Queen of Lombard Street.” In Victorian London, an idealistic female economist who sets out to open the first bank for women discovers that her powerful mentor may be behind a financial conspiracy that could destroy thousands of lives.
New Polling. Raymond LaRaja, UMass Political Science Professor and Co-Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, shares their new polling on all nine ballot questions in the blue state of Massachusetts as well as the statewide candidates and the midterms.
Drama. Our guest is John Feffer, writer and performer of “The President”—coming to the Blue Room at City Space in Easthampton. This play puts our perilous and polarized politics under a magnifying glass.
Managers Monday. We speak with Amherst Town Manager Paul Bockelman and Comms Director Samantha Giffen about the delegation (middle school students) from the town’s sister city, Kanegasaki, Japan, the formation of the Amherst Black Reparations Committee, the opening of the Portland Loo, a public bathroom in downtown Amherst, and capital projects—the new elementary school, the Jones Library, the DPW building & roads and how to pay for them and how much to borrow from Wall Street.
