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The Bill Newman Show 5.16.12
celebrate Massachusetts Bike Week with Northampton's biker-Mayor David Narkewicz; Ruthy Woodring, a founderr and member of Pedal People-- the bicycle trash-hauling collective;and James Lowenthal, President of Pioneer Valley Chapter of MassBike .
 
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The Bill Newman Show 5.15.12
The War Against Women and the War Against Reproductive Rights are our topics when we interview ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.attorney Talcott Camp .Then, Once Upon A Time with Jane Yolen and Lesléa Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies.
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The Bill Newman Show 5.14.12
Guest Host Jeff Napolitano, Director of the Western Massachusetts American Friends Service Committee office, talks with Laura Rotolo, ACLU of Massachusetts immigration expert on the purposes and effects of S-Comm, the federal Secure Communities Program
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The Bill Newman Show 5.11.12
You may be able to breath easier now that the new bio-mass regulations have been issued according to Dr. Mary Booth, Founder and Senior Analyst of the
Massachusetts Environmental Energy Alliance.
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The Bill Newman Show 5.10.12
Rob Wilson, Executive Director of the Veterans Education Project, and Bryan Doerries, Artistic Director of Theatre of War, along with Sam Savage, classics teacher, and Andrew Slade, a senior, at Deerfield Academy, preview the upcoming production of T
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The Bill Newman Show 5.9.12
The Hon W. Hank Abrashkin, former long- time Western Massachusetts Housing Court Judge and now the Executive Director of the Springfield Housing Authority, explains the need for public housing in the Valley and his efforts to engage the community and pub
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The Bill Newman Show 5.8.12
Caitlin Smith, author of Retirement on the Line: Age, Work and Value in An American Factory on retirement --should we, do we really want to be working for wages at age 99 ? Then, Bernadette Giblin, on the LAWNATHON at Look Park this weekend (bring yours
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The Bill Newman Show 5.7.12
7/7:Center for Environmental Civics co-founders Paul Newlin and Chris Bathurst on institutes in the valley this summer on environmental activism. Then Black in the Valley with co hosts, Carlie Tartakov and Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, and their guest Onawumi
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The Bill Newman Show 5.4.12
5/4: Coming soon to Greenfield? where Wal-Mart has gotten approval to open a gargantuan new store. Al Norman, the founder of Sprawl-Busters and author of Occupy Wal-Mart, explains how the giant retailer threatens the well-being of its employees, cust
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The Bill Newman Show 5.3.12
Scott Lively from Shelburne Falls, President of Abiding Truth Ministries, and the defendant in the recently filed law suit claiming that he is guilty of crimes against humanity, explains his positions on gays and lesbians.
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The Bill Newman Show 5.2.12
Rob Wilson,"Duke" Goldman & Lee Hines,Jr. on "Double Victory"-- integrating baseball and the armed forces; Pam Victor on the Ha Ha's new show; and Susan Blauner, author of How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me
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The Bill Newman Show 5.1.12
A taste of the upcoming concert with Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra maestro-legend Peter Blanchette. Then Astronomer and Professor Salman Hameed takes on the universe--all of it-- from beginning to now --really!
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The Bill Newman Show 4.30.12
On the anniversary of the fall of Saigon our guests are poet and author and Vietnam medic-vet Doug Anderson and Thuy Ly, the acclaimed writer who escaped from Vietnam. Mary Serezze in for Bill Newman.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.27.12
Nationally syndicated radio talk show host David Pakman,sitting in for Bill Newman, takes on national issues and politics and politicians.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.26.12
Beatlemania is coming to Northampton thanks to our guest Louise (sister of George) Harrison. Then, children's book author Mo Willems; and a very personal preview of Out! For Reel's screening of The Perfect Family.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.25.12
We observe Workers Memorial Day with Western MassCOSH Director Michael Florio and Hampshire-Franklin Labor Council official, AFL_CIO staff member (and Northampton City Councilor) Maureen Carney.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.23.12
ACLU client Vincent Gillespie on whether Massachusetts, like every other state, will allow a judge to rule on your parking ticket; then the Annie Boutelle, author of This Caravaggio; followed by our Black In The Valley segment.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.20.12
Author Joe McGinniss (The Rogue; Fatal Vision; The Selling of The President,1968) reports on recent trials of kidnapping and rape in the Northampton Superior Court, part of the book he is writing about a year at that Court.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.19.12
Author Joe McGinniss tells us what he has been hearing and seeing as he researches and writes his newest non-fiction book, 15 Gothic Street, a year at the Hampshire County Superior Court. Plus the Reverend and the Rabbi on the threat to defund family plan
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The Bill Newman Show 4.18.12
Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight advocates for the Resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision Then,a moving, funny and edifying conversation with Episcopal Rev. Jesse Zink, Northampton High Sc
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The Bill Newman Show 4.17.12
Northampton attorney Luke Ryan discusses the federal law suit against local Abiding Truth Ministries Pastor Scott Lively for alleged crimes against humanity. Then, the mood lightens in our Once Upon A Time segment with author-hosts Jane Yolen and Hei
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The Bill Newman Show 4.16.12
First, Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity's Executive Director M.J. Adams on the urgent need to raise $21,000 to build affordable housing in Northampton. Then Director Robert Freedman and actors Jen Campbell and Dee Waterman preview the gripping, sad an
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The Bill Newman Show 4.13.12
Kestrel now is the land trust overseeing land conservation throughout the Valley. We find out what and how much acerage is about to be preserved and why from Executive Director Kristen DeBoer. Then, Northampton High School students and accomplished a
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The Bill Newman Show 4.12.12
State Senator Stan Rosenberg discusses medical marijuana, state aid for cities and towns,the defeat of the Governor's community colleges proposal, and the three strikes sentencing bill. Then, Rev. Peter Ives' remembrances of Andrea Raphael.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.11.12
4/11: We celebrate the life of Valley author Anna Kirwan, her poetry and novels and the love of writing she gave so many -- with Pat Schneider, Patty MacLachlan, Leslea Newman, Mike Ryan, Rochelle Wildfong, and Mary-Beth O'Shea.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.10.12
The Center for New Americans Executive Director Russell Bradbury-Carlin and amazing recent immigrant,students from the Ivory Coast and Morocco, talk about coming to America and going to the State House to meet elected officials.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.9.12
Liberal science majors, move over. Happiness has been researched by a professor of management! We hear from Rakesh Sarin, co-author of Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.6.12
Northampton resident and Asnuntuck Community College professor John Sheirer says it is time to reclaim the word :liberal" as the patriotic badge of honor it once was. His new book: Tales of A Real American Liberal
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The Bill Newman Show 4.5.12
It's our Good Friday and Passover show with evangelical, fundamentalist Bible Baptist Church Pastor Paul Gustine; joined by Rev. Steve Behlke from College Church; and our Reb and Rev stalwarts, Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.4.12
Bestselling and award- winning author Lesléa Newman brings wishes for A Sweet Passover and shares parts of her new book with that title as well as some reflections about Heather Has Two Mommies two decades after it was published.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.3.12
More jail cells for more women prisoners in western Mass.-- destructive policy destroying lives, says Lois Ahrens, Executive Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project. Then, Professor-astronomer Salman Hameed--more life in the universe.
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The Bill Newman Show 4.2.12
April is National Poetry Month. You will be moved by the words of acclaimed local poets Doug Anderson and Jessamyn Smyth.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.30
Our interview with Rachel Maddow; a preview of the Jackie Robinson show at the Eric Carle Museum with Kadir Nelson; Northampton High School students improv with the Ha Ha (s); plus Inside/ Out & Sports, Man!
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The Bill Newman Show 3.29
Cathedral In the Night, A Ministry on the streets of Northampton, is discussed by Episcopal Priest (and co-founder) Chris Carlisle; Lutheran Pastor (and co-founder) Stephanie Smith; First Churches Congregant and theological seminary student Liza Knapp; F
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The Bill Newman Show 3.28
Jesselyn Radack, former DOJ ethics adviser and author of Traitor: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban"and Thomas Drake, former senior NSA official prosecuted and having face 35 yeats for whistle blowing, paint a painful picture of loss of freedo
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The Bill Newman Show 3.27
Jennifer Dubois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes gives perspective on both the creative process and therecent history of the Soviet Union and the government's quashing of dissent.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.26
Bee there or bee square. In anticipation of the Northampton Adult Spelling Bee, sponsored by and a fundraiser for theNorthampton Education Foundation, we hear about the extraordinary work of the NEF
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The Bill Newman Show 3.23
Massachusetts Treasurer Steve Grossman gives some insight to what's happening with your money and how he keepstrack of it.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.22
Gary Dorrien, author of The Obama Question: A Progressive Perspective raises difficult questions and provides provocative answers.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.21
The McGoverns! Senator and former Presidential candidate George McGovern and his protegee Rep. Jim McGovern (no relation) on what it means to be a Democrat now. Plus Mary Serreze from Northampton Media on the Arson Trial.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.20
Ruth Potee & Ann Linge talk about the prospect of Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty Universtity taking over Northfield. Plus Peter Blanchett on why Bach is the Beatles of Classical Music.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.19
The creative economy comes to Western Massachusetts. We speak with Peter Kageyama, author of For the Love of Cities and keynote speaker at the upcoming Creative Economy Summit in Greenfield,love for the place we live and how it is an economic driver fort
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The Bill Newman Show 3.16
The case of of Daley and Halligan two innocent Irish immigrants executed in Northampton for a murderthey did not commit, is discussed by Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan, Bill O'Riordan, and Tony Ryanfrom the Daley and Halligan Committee.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.13
A moving discussion about the Stavros Center for Independent Living is followed by our segment"Once Upon a Time" with pre-eminent children book authors Jane Yolen and Patricia McLaughlin.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.12
3/12: Anti nuclear activists Paki Wieland and Cate Woolner tell us how the citizenry will continue to protest, and will prevail in the fight to shut down, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vermont, just North of the Massachusetts border.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.9
3/9/10: "An Unreasonable Woman," political activist Diane Wilson, visiting the Valley for International Women's Day, and South Deerfield poet Patrick Donnelly, who will be reading at Smith College, both give us moving and inspiring interviews
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The Bill Newman Show 3.8
John Hodgeman is on the show (seriously). And then, Michael Bardsley, Carl Cignoni, and Timothy Mullen tell us about the extraordinary Mentorship Program at the Hampshire County Jail--and how you can make all the difference in someone's life
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The Bill Newman Show 3.7
Post Super Tuesday, Josh Silver, CEO of the Florence and Washington D.C based United Republic, explains the myriad ways money buys elections and how we can fight back. Also anti-nuclear activist Randy Kehler on this weekend's protest at the Vermont nuke
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The Bill Newman Show March 1
One of America's foremost civil liberties attorneys, Harvey Silverglate, gives perspective on UMass and other institutions and issues. It's a sobering look at loss of liberty in America.
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 24
A donkey as a hero? Amazing, but true. Richard Jarrette, the award -winning poet, shares from his new book Beso The Donkey.
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 22
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Hampshire County needs YOU. We find out why from its Director,Renee Moss and Director of Special Events, Hannah Charren-Diehl. Then our usual Wednesday segment Northampton Media with reporters David Reed and Mary Serezze.
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 21
Poverty in Amherst? Yes, poverty in Amherst. We suspect that you'll be surprised at the pervasiveness of poverty in this (generally regarded as affluent) town, and food insecurity among many who live there. We speak with Jan Eidelson, President of the
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 16
2/16. We preview this Sunday's ,the Northampton Arts Council's third of Four Sundays in February, show at the Academy of Music about Circus Smirkus .We speak with award -winning Film maker Signe Taylor (whose film about the circus "Circus Dreams" is
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 15
2/15 A recent Daily Hampshire Gazette article about a case in Hampshire Superior Court raised the issue, Are your therapist's notes confidential or can a lawyer get his hands on them? We find out from one of the area's premier criminal defense attorne
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 10th
What makes good local radio and television? We have a really interesting conversation with Carrie Saldo, host of WGBY, channel 57's public affairs program Connecting Point.In the FishWrap local personal injury attorneys Paul Weinberg and John DeBartolo pr
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 6th
Bill Shein, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the First Congressional District who is running against Richard Neal and Andrea Nuciforo, shares his vision for a different kind of Congress. Then, Amy Ben-Ezra from the International Lan
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 2
Previewing the first of Four Sundays in February presented by The Northampton Arts Council, we are joined by members of the Smith College acapella group, the Noteables, who prior to performing at the Silver Chord Bowl on Sunday, teach us how acapella song
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The Bill Newman Show 10.25
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We talk with Leslie Laurie from Tapestry Health and Judith Fine from the Gazebo Intimate Apparel about health and advocacy.
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The Bill Newman Show 10.20
Easthampton Mayor Michael Tauznik, candidate for re-election as Mayor of Easthampton, explains why it's not time for a change.
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The Bill Newman Show 10.14
Our conversation with the men who would be mayor of Northampton continues with candidates for Mayor of Northampton, Michael Bardsley and David Narkewicz.
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The Bill Newman Show (6/13/11)
Dan Conlon runs the Warm Colors Apiary in South Deerfield. Dan will be introducing the documentary Queen of the Sun at the Pleasant Street Theater on Monday evening, and he will talk with us about beekeeping and the global bee crisis.
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The Bill Newman Show (6/9/11)
Out! For Reel producer and founder Jaime Michaels joins us in celebration of the LGBT Gala this weekend. Also, Reverend Peter Ives of the First Churches of Northampton and Pastor Steve Behlke of the College Church will discuss homosexuality and the Bible.
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The Bill Newman Show (5/26/11)
Independent filmmaker Jay Rosenstein discusses his new emmy-award winning documentary, The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today, about the landmark Supreme Court case McCollum vs. Board of Education
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The Bill Newman Show (5/30/11)
For Memorial Day, Stacy Bannerman, author of WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind, and Jack Downing of Soldier On, talk about how we are treating veterans upon their return home.
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The Bill Newman Show (5/31/11)
John Elder Robison, bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye and Be Different, and Margaret Robison, author of The Long Journey Home, talk about their lives, books, and family history--including reflections on his brother and her son, Augusten Burroughs.
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The Bill Newman Show (5/20/11)
Law Professor Erin Buzuvis discusses how new millions for the Umass football team will impact women's sports at the university
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The Bill Newman Show (5/12/11)
AJ Lafleur, owner of the Mountain Goat, talks about his favorite places in the valley. Dr. Jay Holtzman discusses his response to his Vietnam War draft notice, which was to go to Canada.
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The Bill Newman Show (5/9/11)
Richard Horan talks about his book, "Seeds," which connects great writers with the trees that inspired them.
Also Don Chevannes, one of the authors featured in the Vietnam War anthology "Called to Serve."
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The Bill Newman Show (5/3/11)
Smith College Professor and Chair of the History Department and expert on Canadian politics tells us what happened in the Canadian election on May 2 what it means for America.
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The Bill Newman Show (4/28/11)
Andy Revkin, long-time New York Times Environmental Reporter on the year that the earth's population exceeds 7 billion--this year!
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The Bill Newman Show (4/27/11)
Attorney Alan Seewald talks about the recommendations for dramatic change in the structure of the city's government made by the Charter Review Committee, of which he was the Chair.
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The Bill Newman Show (4/26/11)
Students from First Generation and The Performance Project, who will be performing in Ripple Effect Saturday at the Northampton Center for the Arts, will tell us about their lives and this performance.
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The Bill Newman Show (4/25/11)
Author! Author! We will have two: Matteo Pistono, author of In the Shadow of the Buddha, about the fight for freedom in Tibet and Kim Kaplan, author of "The Greatest Game Ever Pitched".
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The Bill Newman Show (4/21/11)
Tom Weiner, author of Called To Serve: Stories of Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft discuses that draft and the war and today's voluntary army and America's ongoing wars. Plus arts correspondent Betsy Stone interviews UMass's Eva Fierst.
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The Bill Newman Show (4/8/11)
The Freedom bus riders. Local activists and heroes who rode the buses 50 years ago in Freedom summer will speak of their involvement and preview the upcoming PBS film on that transformative fight for freedom.
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The Bill Newman Show: (3/24/11)
Bill Newman remembers the late Liz Taylor (and fights with Collins about it), and gets a preview of the upcoming Jewish Film Festival with organizer Janet Kaplan Bucciarelli and Out For Reel film festival executive producer Jamie Michaels
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The Bill Newman Show: (3/21/11)
Bill Newman talks about life for women under Taliban rule with former ABC News Producer and Author Gayle Lemmon, who will be doing a reading this Thursday at Odyssey Books
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The Bill Newman Show: (3/11/11)
Bill Newman talks surveillance issues with ACLU Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose, and has a spirited discussion with WAMC Owner/General Manager Alan Shartock on a Republican effort to defund National Public Radio
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The Bill Newman Show: (3/1/11)
Bill Newman talks with Attorney Buz Eisenberg about the allegedly racially-motivated arrest of a black ESPN reporter, and with filmmaker Liz Canner about her latest documentary about Big Pharma's efforts to develop female Viagara
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The 9 O'Clock Show: (2/14/11)
Bill Newman steers a wild, wacky, and thought-provoking Valentine's Day special which includes appearances by psychics, religious leaders, and a UMass Professor who raises real questions about the long-term viability of the traditional male-female relatio
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The Bill Newman Show 3.6
We take on the universe with astronomy professors Salman Hammed from Hampshire College's , Stephen Schneider from UMass, and Richard Wagner, co-author of The Case for Mars.Then Peter Blanchette on this weekend 's incredible Bach concert.
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The Bill Newman Show 3.2
Ryan Harb and Meg Little from UMASS Permaculture on their bid to bring their big idea to The White House. Plus artist David Teeple on the importance of water and AJ La Fleur and Betsy Stone with Inside/Out
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The Bill Newman Show 3.5
Massachusetts House Minority Leader and prominent member the Romney campaign, Rep Don Humason (R.-Westfield), explains his support of Mitt Romney for President.Then, Elise Tripp, author of American Veterans on War
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 29
Marie Friedmann Marquardt, co-author of Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration explores United States immigration policy and its consequences.
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 27
Bob Brick and Ljuba March, co-founders of the new Paul Freire Social Justice Charter School, share their vision for the school and its students.
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 20
For Presidents Day we hear the views of political science Professor Christina Greer on President Obama and the theory of a post-racial presidency; and then a special segment of our newly inaugurated regular segment Black in The Valley, co-hosted by Ja
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The Bill Newman Show 2/23
Democratic candidate for Senate Elizabeth Warren on contraception, misconception and Scott Brown. Plus Leslie Lorrie and Rev. Peter Ives and a preview of The Really Big Show
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 17
2/17. A dream to overcome extreme poverty in Africa.? A $100 grant for micro-financing, as part of a program to give people living in extreme poverty the skills and resources to create a business that allows them to support themselves and their families
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 14
2/14: It's all about the love. We celebrate a very Happy (actually a tad raucous) Valentine's Day.with local (and some of the nation's star ) children's books authors Jane Yolen, Norton Juster, and Heidi Stemple.
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 13th
Congressman Jim McGovern shares his views on local issues and the national political races. The interview follows our Black in the Valley Segment with co-hosts Carlie Tartakov and Jacqueline Smith Crooks, whose guest is the Chair of the UMass African Amer
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 9th
It's the Winklepicker Fest preview with Nan Parati and singer-songwriter Chris Smither.
This show was way too much fun.
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 8th
Jack Dunn, the co-owner (with his brother) of the Rusty Nail, the greatest musical venue during the valleys' renaissance, regales us with stories of the artists who frequented the club-- a preview of the Rusty Nail, the upcoming performance of the second
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 7th
Robert Walker, President of the Population Institute and Leslie Laurie, Executive Director of Tapestry Health, highlight the threat to women and families from the positions of the anti-contraceptive national candidates. Then astronomer and Hampshire Coll
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The Bill Newman Show Feb 3
David Pakman, the nationally syndicated political radio show talk show host, takes over the show (kind of a friendly coup d'état) while Bill Newman is away.
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