Podcasts from all of the local show on WHMP Radio in Northampton, MA. including Talk the Talk with Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg, The Hustler Files, The Western Mass Business Show, and Panorama.
11/21/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ SEIU MA Political Dir Harris Gruman: the looming ballot question. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: schools & money. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on Epstein, Trump's power & political executions. Josh Silver on “Age of Disclosure” -- aliens? Donnabelle Casis w/ Pulp Gallery's Dean Brown: the amazing spiritual work of Adam Gurvitch & Andrea Dezso.
11/21/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ SEIU MA Political Dir Harris Gruman: the looming ballot question. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: schools & money. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on Epstein, Trump's power & political executions. Josh Silver on “Age of Disclosure” -- aliens? Donnabelle Casis w/ Pulp Gallery's Dean Brown: the amazing spiritual work of Adam Gurvitch & Andrea Dezso.
11/21/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ SEIU MA Political Dir Harris Gruman: the looming ballot question. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: schools & money. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on Epstein, Trump's power & political executions. Josh Silver on “Age of Disclosure” -- aliens? Donnabelle Casis w/ Pulp Gallery's Dean Brown: the amazing spiritual work of Adam Gurvitch & Andrea Dezso.
11/21/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ SEIU MA Political Dir Harris Gruman: the looming ballot question. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: schools & money. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on Epstein, Trump's power & political executions. Josh Silver on “Age of Disclosure” -- aliens? Donnabelle Casis w/ Pulp Gallery's Dean Brown: the amazing spiritual work of Adam Gurvitch & Andrea Dezso.
11/21/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ SEIU MA Political Dir Harris Gruman: the looming ballot question. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: schools & money. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on Epstein, Trump's power & political executions. Josh Silver on “Age of Disclosure” -- aliens? Donnabelle Casis w/ Pulp Gallery's Dean Brown: the amazing spiritual work of Adam Gurvitch & Andrea Dezso.
11/20/25: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: 2025 flu & covid vaccines -- risks & rewards. DHG & Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: follow-up stories on the Amherst fire, E'ton new Mayor's first decisions, & food trucks in N'ton? Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: bringing Torahs to Ireland, addressing antisemitism. John Anz w/ brilliant vocalist Stella Cole: her upcoming holiday show at Tanglewood.
11/20/25: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: 2025 flu & covid vaccines -- risks & rewards. DHG & Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: follow-up stories on the Amherst fire, E'ton new Mayor's first decisions, & food trucks in N'ton? Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: bringing Torahs to Ireland, addressing antisemitism. John Anz w/ brilliant vocalist Stella Cole: her upcoming holiday show at Tanglewood.
11/20/25: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: 2025 flu & covid vaccines -- risks & rewards. DHG & Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: follow-up stories on the Amherst fire, E'ton new Mayor's first decisions, & food trucks in N'ton? Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: bringing Torahs to Ireland, addressing antisemitism. John Anz w/ brilliant vocalist Stella Cole: her upcoming holiday show at Tanglewood.
11/20/25: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: 2025 flu & covid vaccines -- risks & rewards. DHG & Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: follow-up stories on the Amherst fire, E'ton new Mayor's first decisions, & food trucks in N'ton? Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: bringing Torahs to Ireland, addressing antisemitism. John Anz w/ brilliant vocalist Stella Cole: her upcoming holiday show at Tanglewood.
11/19/25: Young@Heart Chorus' Bob Cilman, Orlando Isaza & Caroline McDonald: “Ten-Alarm Fire: We Will Not Shut Up!” Ellsberg Initiative's Chris Appy and Farai Chidea: “How to Read America.” Community Action's Energy Program Dir Peter Wingate: staying warm. “Between The Mountain and the Sky” with filmmakers Larry Hott & Jeremy Power Regimbal and the protagonist, Nepal-based Maggie Doyne.
11/19/25: Young@Heart Chorus' Bob Cilman, Orlando Isaza & Caroline McDonald: “Ten-Alarm Fire: We Will Not Shut Up!” Ellsberg Initiative's Chris Appy and Farai Chidea: “How to Read America.” Community Action's Energy Program Dir Peter Wingate: staying warm. “Between The Mountain and the Sky” with filmmakers Larry Hott & Jeremy Power Regimbal and the protagonist, Nepal-based Maggie Doyne.
11/19/25: Young@Heart Chorus' Bob Cilman, Orlando Isaza & Caroline McDonald: “Ten-Alarm Fire: We Will Not Shut Up!” Ellsberg Initiative's Chris Appy and Farai Chidea: “How to Read America.” Community Action's Energy Program Dir Peter Wingate: staying warm. “Between The Mountain and the Sky” with filmmakers Larry Hott & Jeremy Power Regimbal and the protagonist, Nepal-based Maggie Doyne.
11/19/25: Young@Heart Chorus' Bob Cilman, Orlando Isaza & Caroline McDonald: “Ten-Alarm Fire: We Will Not Shut Up!” Ellsberg Initiative's Chris Appy and Farai Chidea: “How to Read America.” Community Action's Energy Program Dir Peter Wingate: staying warm. “Between The Mountain and the Sky” with filmmakers Larry Hott & Jeremy Power Regimbal and the protagonist, Nepal-based Maggie Doyne.
Originally recorded on November 15, 2025. Yakov Kronrod, William O'Dwyer, Michele Ronco, and Ace Tayloe ran for office in Northampton but fell a little short in getting elected. Why did they run? What did voters tell them about schools, the Resiliency Hub, and downtown redesign? And isn't affordable housing connected to all of these issues? They share their answers and more on this retrospective election episode.
Join us as we chat with Melissa Breor, the Executive Director of the Chicopee Chamber, and Samalid Hogan, who is the CEO and Principal Consultant at Greylock Management Consulting. They are well known individuals throughout the region because of the important past roles that they have held. Samalid was the former Executive Director at the MSBDC in Springfield and Melissa worked at the Northampton Chamber for many years. They have partnered up to do a series of workshops in Chicopee sponsored by the City of Chicopee. 13 workshops to be exact. Their topics will include business planning, capital resources, financial planning, energy, and impact. For more information, please go to: www.bit.ly/chicopeebizworkshops www.chicopeechamber.org https://cas5-0-urlprotect.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=www.greylockmanagementconsulting.com&umid=aab3390f-3b3f-4a78-80bc-1693e43314ca&rct=1763419700&auth=8789d1923baeef5cdc1c0bb41e7be32625ccae84-079ec4e8fa4b8db345931e6faf7e2615997599f1
11/18/25: Rep. Aaron Saunders: today's vote on more money ($2.5 Billion) for education. Hadley School Super Annie McKenzie: constructing a school budget. Happier Valley Comedy stars Scott Braidman, Maddy Benjamin & Lynn Curry: a quiz on board games. Feminist Future -- Smith profs, activists & authors Carrie Baker w/ Loretta Ross: the fight for abortion access.
11/18/25: Rep. Aaron Saunders: today's vote on more money ($2.5 Billion) for education. Hadley School Super Annie McKenzie: constructing a school budget. Happier Valley Comedy stars Scott Braidman, Maddy Benjamin & Lynn Curry: a quiz on board games. Feminist Future -- Smith profs, activists & authors Carrie Baker w/ Loretta Ross: the fight for abortion access.
11/18/25: Rep. Aaron Saunders: today's vote on more money ($2.5 Billion) for education. Hadley School Super Annie McKenzie: constructing a school budget. Happier Valley Comedy stars Scott Braidman, Maddy Benjamin & Lynn Curry: a quiz on board games. Feminist Future -- Smith profs, activists & authors Carrie Baker w/ Loretta Ross: the fight for abortion access.
11/18/25: Rep. Aaron Saunders: today's vote on more money ($2.5 Billion) for education. Hadley School Super Annie McKenzie: constructing a school budget. Happier Valley Comedy stars Scott Braidman, Maddy Benjamin & Lynn Curry: a quiz on board games. Feminist Future -- Smith profs, activists & authors Carrie Baker w/ Loretta Ross: the fight for abortion access.
Originally recorded on November 17, 2025. Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio called the Legislature an "authoritarian regime." Diana explains that comment, her saga to audit the legislature, and her latest ballot initiative to revamp the public record law in Massachusetts. Diana DiZoglio for MA webpage: https://www.dianaforma.com/
11/17/25: Alex (Sasha) Werth: “On Loop—Black Sonic Politics in Oakland” and his multi-media book performance! Megan Zinn w/ Sacha Lamb, N.E. Book Award winner, on “The Forbidden Book.” Salem Derby stops by the studio on his way to being sworn in as Easthampton's Mayor. Adam Hinds, CEO, Edward Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the gov't shutdown, the filibuster & the future.
11/17/25: Alex (Sasha) Werth: “On Loop—Black Sonic Politics in Oakland” and his multi-media book performance! Megan Zinn w/ Sacha Lamb, N.E. Book Award winner, on “The Forbidden Book.” Salem Derby stops by the studio on his way to being sworn in as Easthampton's Mayor. Adam Hinds, CEO, Edward Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the gov't shutdown, the filibuster & the future.
11/17/25: Alex (Sasha) Werth: “On Loop—Black Sonic Politics in Oakland” and his multi-media book performance! Megan Zinn w/ Sacha Lamb, N.E. Book Award winner, on “The Forbidden Book.” Salem Derby stops by the studio on his way to being sworn in as Easthampton's Mayor. Adam Hinds, CEO, Edward Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the gov't shutdown, the filibuster & the future.
11/17/25: Alex (Sasha) Werth: “On Loop—Black Sonic Politics in Oakland” and his multi-media book performance! Megan Zinn w/ Sacha Lamb, N.E. Book Award winner, on “The Forbidden Book.” Salem Derby stops by the studio on his way to being sworn in as Easthampton's Mayor. Adam Hinds, CEO, Edward Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the gov't shutdown, the filibuster & the future.
Originally aired on November 15th, 2025. Noah Modie of the Oxbow Design Build Cooperative on the housing crisis. What is the state of housing in western Massachusetts? Why is it so expensive to build? What is actually driving up the material costs of building? Why can't we produce more skilled labor? What role does the financial sector play? And are higher building costs necessarily a bad thing? Noah answers all of those questions and more on this episode.
Originally recorded on November 13th, 2025. 76 votes. That's all that separated Jillian Duclos from winning the Northampton (MA) mayoral race on November 4th. She shares her campaign story, the major challenges ahead, and offers an optimistic vision for the future of Northampton.
Nell Bernstein, author of “In Our Future We are Free—the Dismantling of the Youth Prison
ArtBeat w/Donnabelle Casis and William Baczek: “The Road Not Taken” --an extraordinary exhibit of Chie Yosii's work
Lt-Col John Paradis(ret), Catie Foertsch (Dir), Tommy Furlong (Ex Prod) : the film “What I Want You to Know”- about our veterans and our wars
UMass Profs Steve Sireci (Dir, Ctr for Educ Assessment) & Max Page (MTA Pres): what tests make sense
Melanie Slabaugh: the upcoming story slam at Bombyx
11/13/25: Northampton Author Rich Michelson on "Fannie's Big Idea" (today is the 100th anniversary!). Author Thomas Suárez on “Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought” & his Nov 19 UMass talk. Amherst author Corinne Demas on her newest novel, “Daughters” Ruth Griggs: tomorrow's Western Mass Arts Economic Impact Summit.
11/13/25: Northampton Author Rich Michelson on "Fannie's Big Idea" (today is the 100th anniversary!). Author Thomas Suárez on “Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought” & his Nov 19 UMass talk. Amherst author Corinne Demas on her newest novel, “Daughters” Ruth Griggs: tomorrow's Western Mass Arts Economic Impact Summit.
11/13/25: Northampton Author Rich Michelson on "Fannie's Big Idea" (today is the 100th anniversary!). Author Thomas Suárez on “Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought” & his Nov 19 UMass talk. Amherst author Corinne Demas on her newest novel, “Daughters” Ruth Griggs: tomorrow's Western Mass Arts Economic Impact Summit.
11/13/25: Northampton Author Rich Michelson on "Fannie's Big Idea" (today is the 100th anniversary!). Author Thomas Suárez on “Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought” & his Nov 19 UMass talk. Amherst author Corinne Demas on her newest novel, “Daughters” Ruth Griggs: tomorrow's Western Mass Arts Economic Impact Summit.
11/13/25: Northampton Author Rich Michelson on "Fannie's Big Idea" (today is the 100th anniversary!). Author Thomas Suárez on “Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought” & his Nov 19 UMass talk. Amherst author Corinne Demas on her newest novel, “Daughters” Ruth Griggs: tomorrow's Western Mass Arts Economic Impact Summit.
Join us as we hear from Shoshana Wirth about her business Allergy Relief Care. She has a deeply personal experience about the work that she does and the relief that she is providing to so many. She has been able to treat people with allergies and sensitivities successfully since opening her practice earlier this year in Easthampton. She holds an MBA, BSN, and RN degrees as a foundation for her alternative health care practice. By using high tech allergy mapping/acupressure she can find what patients are allergic to and tell the body to calm down. She works directly with the relationship between major organs, symptoms, and overreactions to substances. Check out her website: www.allergyreliefcare.com for more information.
Join us as we hear from Shoshana Wirth about her business Allergy Relief Care. She has a deeply personal experience about the work that she does and the relief that she is providing to so many. She has been able to treat people with allergies and sensitivities successfully since opening her practice earlier this year in Easthampton. She holds an MBA, BSN, and RN degrees as a foundation for her alternative health care practice. By using high tech allergy mapping/acupressure she can find what patients are allergic to and tell the body to calm down. She works directly with the relationship between major organs, symptoms, and overreactions to substances. Check out her website: www.allergyreliefcare.com for more information.
Join us as we hear from Shoshana Wirth about her business Allergy Relief Care. She has a deeply personal experience about the work that she does and the relief that she is providing to so many. She has been able to treat people with allergies and sensitivities successfully since opening her practice earlier this year in Easthampton. She holds an MBA, BSN, and RN degrees as a foundation for her alternative health care practice. By using high tech allergy mapping/acupressure she can find what patients are allergic to and tell the body to calm down. She works directly with the relationship between major organs, symptoms, and overreactions to substances. Check out her website: www.allergyreliefcare.com for more information.
Join us as we hear from Shoshana Wirth about her business Allergy Relief Care. She has a deeply personal experience about the work that she does and the relief that she is providing to so many. She has been able to treat people with allergies and sensitivities successfully since opening her practice earlier this year in Easthampton. She holds an MBA, BSN, and RN degrees as a foundation for her alternative health care practice. By using high tech allergy mapping/acupressure she can find what patients are allergic to and tell the body to calm down. She works directly with the relationship between major organs, symptoms, and overreactions to substances. Check out her website: www.allergyreliefcare.com for more information.
11/12/25: Amherst Counsel Pres Lynn Griesemer: local politics, rewilding & money. Patricia Lee Lewis: “Thorns of the Mesquite: …defiance, refuge and unyielding hope.” Arcadia's new Sanctuary Mgr Maya Rappaport: birds, kids & sanctuaries. Larry Hott w/ Dr. Jon Hallberg: racism; ageing – beauty & relevance; war -- prosthetics & Ukraine.
11/12/25: Amherst Counsel Pres Lynn Griesemer: local politics, rewilding & money. Patricia Lee Lewis: “Thorns of the Mesquite: …defiance, refuge and unyielding hope.” Arcadia's new Sanctuary Mgr Maya Rappaport: birds, kids & sanctuaries. Larry Hott w/ Dr. Jon Hallberg: racism; ageing – beauty & relevance; war -- prosthetics & Ukraine.
11/12/25: Amherst Counsel Pres Lynn Griesemer: local politics, rewilding & money. Patricia Lee Lewis: “Thorns of the Mesquite: …defiance, refuge and unyielding hope.” Arcadia's new Sanctuary Mgr Maya Rappaport: birds, kids & sanctuaries. Larry Hott w/ Dr. Jon Hallberg: racism; ageing – beauty & relevance; war -- prosthetics & Ukraine.
11/12/25: Amherst Counsel Pres Lynn Griesemer: local politics, rewilding & money. Patricia Lee Lewis: “Thorns of the Mesquite: …defiance, refuge and unyielding hope.” Arcadia's new Sanctuary Mgr Maya Rappaport: birds, kids & sanctuaries. Larry Hott w/ Dr. Jon Hallberg: racism; ageing – beauty & relevance; war -- prosthetics & Ukraine.
11/11/25: Rep Patricia Duffy: the shutdown & the deal. Safe Passage's Natalie Ulrich & GSB's Dir of Philanthropy Tara Brewster: the Hot Chocolate Run & tomorrow's fundraiser. Mark Lee Gardner: “Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & a Reckoning in Tombstone.” Duke Goldman: gambling, an amazing World Series, the Dodgers & diversity.
11/11/25: Rep Patricia Duffy: the shutdown & the deal. Safe Passage's Natalie Ulrich & GSB's Dir of Philanthropy Tara Brewster: the Hot Chocolate Run & tomorrow's fundraiser. Mark Lee Gardner: “Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & a Reckoning in Tombstone.” Duke Goldman: gambling, an amazing World Series, the Dodgers & diversity.
11/11/25: Rep Patricia Duffy: the shutdown & the deal. Safe Passage's Natalie Ulrich & GSB's Dir of Philanthropy Tara Brewster: the Hot Chocolate Run & tomorrow's fundraiser. Mark Lee Gardner: “Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & a Reckoning in Tombstone.” Duke Goldman: gambling, an amazing World Series, the Dodgers & diversity.
11/11/25: Rep Patricia Duffy: the shutdown & the deal. Safe Passage's Natalie Ulrich & GSB's Dir of Philanthropy Tara Brewster: the Hot Chocolate Run & tomorrow's fundraiser. Mark Lee Gardner: “Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & a Reckoning in Tombstone.” Duke Goldman: gambling, an amazing World Series, the Dodgers & diversity.
11/10/25: Eric Reeves on the genocide in Sudan. Megan Zinn w/ Gish Jen on “Bad Bad Girl.” Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on election results, new school(s) & big political fights. Prof Amilcar Shabazz w/Charles Walker-Hoover, Pres UMass NAACP chapter: this weekend's fire & Friday's protest.
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