Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, October 17, 202510/17/2025
Audits & Artists, Politicians & Professors
10/17/25: Max Page w/ Auditor Diana DiZoglio: auditing the legislature & applying the Public Records Act. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: wisely follow the money. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: the Justice Dep’t is a dire threat to democracy. Prof Michael Hoberman on “Imagining Early American Jews.” Donnabelle Casis w/ Rachel Buenaventura of the Wistariahurst Museum on “Identity in Ink: the Art of Tattooing.”
Thursday, October 16, 202510/16/2025
Solutions
10/16/25: Luke Rotello, N’ton City Council Ward 5 candidate. DHG & Recorder Exec Editor Dan Crowley: covering local elections. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: hostages, prisoners & a two-state solution. “Made in the Valley” (& live in studio!): musicians Loren Ludwig, Alice Robbins & Tim Eriksen: local 19th century music for voices and viols.
Wednesday, October 15, 202510/15/2025
Committed
9/15/25: Al Simon, candidate for N’ton City Council, Ward 2. UMass Profs Paul Collins & Tim Komatsu: the voting patterns of Federalist Society justices & judges. Brian Adams w/ THE state herpetologist, Mike Jones: turtles & salamanders & snakes—oh my! Larry Hott reviews “Democracy Noir” and “Apocalypse in the Tropics.”
Wednesday, October 15, 202510/15/2025
Councilors, Counselors & a Chef !
10/14/25: N’ton Ward 2 Councilor and candidate Deborah Pastrich-Klemer. Amherst Councilor Andy Steinberg & N’ton Councilor Alex Jarret: funding our schools & other critical services. UMass Dining Services’ Jeff MacDonald — winner of the “Chef of the Year” award! Rich Michelson: “What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice” and “Three Poets and a Play” on No-Kings Day.
Monday, October 13, 202510/13/2025
Candidacies
10/13/25: Laurie Loisel, N’ton Ward 3 City Council candidate. Megan Zinn w/ Paula Saunders, author of “Starting from Here.” Megan Wolf, write-in candidate for N’ton Ward 4 School Committee. Amilcar Shabazz w/ Amherst Coll Black Studies & History Prof Stefan Bradley, author of “If We Don’t Get It: A Peoples’ History of Ferguson.”
Saturday, October 11, 202510/11/2025
Western Mass Business Show on 10.11.25
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we listen to the latest from the Team at Safe Passage. We had a full house with Marianne Winters Executive Director, Natalie Ulrich Development Director, Hannah Smith Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, Margo Kinney-Petrucha Volunteer, Nashaly De Jesus LatinX Outreach Coordinator, and Karla T Latinx Counselor & Immigration Specialist joining us. Tune in as we talk about funding cuts, grass roots support, survivor anthology project, peer to peer fundraising, immigration, housing, safety, almost 50 years, and the HOT CHOCOLATE RUN. Go to www.safepass.org for more info on the topics discussed. We are in this together and we must find a way through these times together. Thank you for listening and supporting the important work of Safe Passage.
Saturday, October 11, 202510/11/2025
Panorama — Episode 122 — Jillian Duclos Returns
In Panorama
Originally aired on October 11th, 2025. Jillian Duclos is running to unseat Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra. Jillian makes the case for why she has the experience to be the next mayor of Northampton, what she would do during her first 100 days if she were elected, how she’ll work with the City Council, and she articulates why she wants to be mayor of the City of Northampton.
Jillian Duclos’s website is
www.jillianfornorthampton.com/
Friday, October 10, 202510/10/2025
Live
10/10/25: Live from D.C.– MTA Pres Max Page: health insur, rainy day funds & DOE. Live in studio — Michael Stein, N’pton School Comm member & candidate for re-election. Historian & author Matthew Restall: “The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus.” Matteo Pangallo & Steve Poulin: new plays “Take Ten.” Donnabelle Casis w/ Christina White of Art for the Soul Gallery: “The Power of SHE.”
