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7/17/26, Co -Host Josh Silver. MTA rank-and-file member Max Page w/ Anthony Clough from the Mass Budget and Policy Center: should Massachusetts opt into the federal school voucher program? Clough provides a completely understandable explanation of the issue and explains why the answer should be a resounding No. Amherst College Prof Austin Sarat on Trump's speech last night. Will the President try to rig, and can he sabotage, the Midterms? Rep Lindsay Sabadosa takes on the most contentious issues before the state legislature now. Political Good with Josh Silver: Rep Sabadosa stays with us, and we discuss ICE on the streets and in court houses and other sensitive locations in Massachusetts. Plus the Rep's take on the ballot questions.
7/17/26, Co -Host Josh Silver. MTA rank-and-file member Max Page w/ Anthony Clough from the Mass Budget and Policy Center: should Massachusetts opt into the federal school voucher program? Clough provides a completely understandable explanation of the issue and explains why the answer should be a resounding No. Amherst College Prof Austin Sarat on Trump's speech last night. Will the President try to rig, and can he sabotage, the Midterms? Rep Lindsay Sabadosa takes on the most contentious issues before the state legislature now. Political Good with Josh Silver: Rep Sabadosa stays with us, and we discuss ICE on the streets and in court houses and other sensitive locations in Massachusetts. Plus the Rep's take on the ballot questions.
7/17/26, Co -Host Josh Silver. MTA rank-and-file member Max Page w/ Anthony Clough from the Mass Budget and Policy Center: should Massachusetts opt into the federal school voucher program? Clough provides a completely understandable explanation of the issue and explains why the answer should be a resounding No. Amherst College Prof Austin Sarat on Trump's speech last night. Will the President try to rig, and can he sabotage, the Midterms? Rep Lindsay Sabadosa takes on the most contentious issues before the state legislature now. Political Good with Josh Silver: Rep Sabadosa stays with us, and we discuss ICE on the streets and in court houses and other sensitive locations in Massachusetts. Plus the Rep's take on the ballot questions.
7/17/26, Co -Host Josh Silver. MTA rank-and-file member Max Page w/ Anthony Clough from the Mass Budget and Policy Center: should Massachusetts opt into the federal school voucher program? Clough provides a completely understandable explanation of the issue and explains why the answer should be a resounding No. Amherst College Prof Austin Sarat on Trump's speech last night. Will the President try to rig, and can he sabotage, the Midterms? Rep Lindsay Sabadosa takes on the most contentious issues before the state legislature now. Political Good with Josh Silver: Rep Sabadosa stays with us, and we discuss ICE on the streets and in court houses and other sensitive locations in Massachusetts. Plus the Rep's take on the ballot questions.
7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement's recent past and immediate future. Community Action's Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (Dir, Youth & Workforce Dev): a win-win-win for the community—well-paying jobs, free training while providing good and safe housing. Political Gold with Josh Silver & his guest Joe Lyman: audit the legislature, the governor & the courts—really? Boston Globe investigations, transparency & public record requests. Touches a nerve. Josh Silver on Maine's U.S. Senate race—who will replace Graham Platner what qualities should the candidate have? ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Kiah Tinkham of Waterway Arts in Turners Falls: “Please Touch”— we tell you why.
7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement's recent past and immediate future. Community Action's Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (Dir, Youth & Workforce Dev): a win-win-win for the community—well-paying jobs, free training while providing good and safe housing. Political Gold with Josh Silver & his guest Joe Lyman: audit the legislature, the governor & the courts—really? Boston Globe investigations, transparency & public record requests. Touches a nerve. Josh Silver on Maine's U.S. Senate race—who will replace Graham Platner what qualities should the candidate have? ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Kiah Tinkham of Waterway Arts in Turners Falls: “Please Touch”— we tell you why.
7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement's recent past and immediate future. Community Action's Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (Dir, Youth & Workforce Dev): a win-win-win for the community—well-paying jobs, free training while providing good and safe housing. Political Gold with Josh Silver & his guest Joe Lyman: audit the legislature, the governor & the courts—really? Boston Globe investigations, transparency & public record requests. Touches a nerve. Josh Silver on Maine's U.S. Senate race—who will replace Graham Platner what qualities should the candidate have? ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Kiah Tinkham of Waterway Arts in Turners Falls: “Please Touch”— we tell you why.
7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement's recent past and immediate future. Community Action's Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (Dir, Youth & Workforce Dev): a win-win-win for the community—well-paying jobs, free training while providing good and safe housing. Political Gold with Josh Silver & his guest Joe Lyman: audit the legislature, the governor & the courts—really? Boston Globe investigations, transparency & public record requests. Touches a nerve. Josh Silver on Maine's U.S. Senate race—who will replace Graham Platner what qualities should the candidate have? ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Kiah Tinkham of Waterway Arts in Turners Falls: “Please Touch”— we tell you why.
7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement's recent past and immediate future. Community Action's Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (Dir, Youth & Workforce Dev): a win-win-win for the community—well-paying jobs, free training while providing good and safe housing. Political Gold with Josh Silver & his guest Joe Lyman: audit the legislature, the governor & the courts—really? Boston Globe investigations, transparency & public record requests. Touches a nerve. Josh Silver on Maine's U.S. Senate race—who will replace Graham Platner what qualities should the candidate have? ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Kiah Tinkham of Waterway Arts in Turners Falls: “Please Touch”— we tell you why.
7/2/26, Co-Host Andy Bukowski. Award-winning poet Martín Espada on “Shame” – the story of, his poem on, Alligator Alcatraz, featured in this month's special edition of the Nation Magazine along with pieces by Jane Fonda, Bill McKibben, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and other progressive luminaries. Max Page, Pres of Mass Teachers Ass'n: ballot questions on taxes and rent control stuck from November's ballot—for different reasons; Trump's school voucher program in Mass; more $ for our schools? Congressman Jim McGovern: celebrating the 250th, government dysfunction, the housing bill, wars in Iran, Ukraine & Gaza, USAID, Trump's 2026 election-rigging plans, & reflections on the reflecting pool. Kristin Neville, Ex Dir, Blues to Green, & Lorenzo Gaines, Social Media & Community Engagement Guru, on the next weekend's joyous Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival – free and open to all—an amazing lineup of musicians.
7/2/26, Co-Host Andy Bukowski. Award-winning poet Martín Espada on “Shame” – the story of, his poem on, Alligator Alcatraz, featured in this month's special edition of the Nation Magazine along with pieces by Jane Fonda, Bill McKibben, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and other progressive luminaries. Max Page, Pres of Mass Teachers Ass'n: ballot questions on taxes and rent control stuck from November's ballot—for different reasons; Trump's school voucher program in Mass; more $ for our schools? Congressman Jim McGovern: celebrating the 250th, government dysfunction, the housing bill, wars in Iran, Ukraine & Gaza, USAID, Trump's 2026 election-rigging plans, & reflections on the reflecting pool. Kristin Neville, Ex Dir, Blues to Green, & Lorenzo Gaines, Social Media & Community Engagement Guru, on the next weekend's joyous Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival – free and open to all—an amazing lineup of musicians.
7/2/26, Co-Host Andy Bukowski. Award-winning poet Martín Espada on “Shame” – the story of, his poem on, Alligator Alcatraz, featured in this month's special edition of the Nation Magazine along with pieces by Jane Fonda, Bill McKibben, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and other progressive luminaries. Max Page, Pres of Mass Teachers Ass'n: ballot questions on taxes and rent control stuck from November's ballot—for different reasons; Trump's school voucher program in Mass; more $ for our schools? Congressman Jim McGovern: celebrating the 250th, government dysfunction, the housing bill, wars in Iran, Ukraine & Gaza, USAID, Trump's 2026 election-rigging plans, & reflections on the reflecting pool. Kristin Neville, Ex Dir, Blues to Green, & Lorenzo Gaines, Social Media & Community Engagement Guru, on the next weekend's joyous Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival – free and open to all—an amazing lineup of musicians.
7/2/26, Co-Host Andy Bukowski. Award-winning poet Martín Espada on “Shame” – the story of, his poem on, Alligator Alcatraz, featured in this month's special edition of the Nation Magazine along with pieces by Jane Fonda, Bill McKibben, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and other progressive luminaries. Max Page, Pres of Mass Teachers Ass'n: ballot questions on taxes and rent control stuck from November's ballot—for different reasons; Trump's school voucher program in Mass; more $ for our schools? Congressman Jim McGovern: celebrating the 250th, government dysfunction, the housing bill, wars in Iran, Ukraine & Gaza, USAID, Trump's 2026 election-rigging plans, & reflections on the reflecting pool. Kristin Neville, Ex Dir, Blues to Green, & Lorenzo Gaines, Social Media & Community Engagement Guru, on the next weekend's joyous Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival – free and open to all—an amazing lineup of musicians.
6/19/26 (Host – Josh Silver) MTA President Max Page: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision to bar the proposed income tax cut ballot initiative from appearing on the November ballot. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa & Wildlife Conservationist Emma Howard Boutiette: Legislation to stop SGARS (Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides) – highly potent rat and mouse poisons Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: Environmental Bond Bill – rewilded golf course in Williamsburg & Economic Development Bond Bill – Quantum Computing, digital revision Professor Austin Sarat: 50th Anniversary of reinstatement of the death penalty, where the death penalty stands now in the U.S. & the U.S. Iran Peace Deal Emily Boddy, Co-Founder of Reconnect Western Mass & the Founding Member of The Distraction Free Schools Policy Project: Northampton schools enacting a bell-to-bell cell phone policy Art Beat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Dean Brown, artist and owner of PULP Holyoke: Art exhibition feat Anna Helper, Sean Sullivan, & Roger Brouard now through July 12
6/12/26 (Host – Josh Silver) MTA President Max Page w/ Congressional Candidate Mariah Lancaster: running for an open seat for the 6th Congressional District, Primary in September Director Rose Schwietz Malla, Assistant Director Hia Ghosh, Actor Caleb Koval: Silverthorne Theater Company's Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok, Performances now through June 21 at Hampshire College Theater (Emily Dickinson Hall). Director Jen Polins: The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought presents Hatchery Dance Company's Asteroid B-612: A Love Story inspired by The Little Prince at The Workroom Theater in Northampton. June 12 (sold out) & June 13 2 & 730 pm Josh Silver: Easthampton Override & Easthampton's World Cup Watch Parties MTA President Max Page & Senator Ed Markey: Public Education, The Big Ugly Bill & Markey facing Seth Moulton for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the September 1 primary.
6/12/26 (Host – Josh Silver) MTA President Max Page w/ Congressional Candidate Mariah Lancaster: running for an open seat for the 6th Congressional District, Primary in September Director Rose Schwietz Malla, Assistant Director Hia Ghosh, Actor Caleb Koval: Silverthorne Theater Company's Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok, Performances now through June 21 at Hampshire College Theater (Emily Dickinson Hall). Director Jen Polins: The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought presents Hatchery Dance Company's Asteroid B-612: A Love Story inspired by The Little Prince at The Workroom Theater in Northampton. June 12 (sold out) & June 13 2 & 730 pm Josh Silver: Easthampton Override & Easthampton's World Cup Watch Parties MTA President Max Page & Senator Ed Markey: Public Education, The Big Ugly Bill & Markey facing Seth Moulton for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the September 1 primary.
6/6/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols. ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers: the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.” Community Action Pioneer Valley's Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children. Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens. Max Page: last night's U.S. Senate's all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.
6/6/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols. ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers: the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.” Community Action Pioneer Valley's Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children. Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens. Max Page: last night's U.S. Senate's all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.
6/6/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols. ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers: the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.” Community Action Pioneer Valley's Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children. Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens. Max Page: last night's U.S. Senate's all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.
6/6/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols. ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers: the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.” Community Action Pioneer Valley's Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children. Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens. Max Page: last night's U.S. Senate's all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.
6/6/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols. ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers: the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.” Community Action Pioneer Valley's Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children. Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens. Max Page: last night's U.S. Senate's all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.
5/29/26, Co-Host Josh Silver MTA Pres Max Page: Trump's tax credits for private & religious schools, an attack on public education. Chester Theatre's Co-Artistic Directors Chris Baker & Michelle Ong-Hendrick on upcoming plays: “Buckminster Fuller—The History (and Mystery) of the Universe;” “Fanny—The Music and Life of Fanny Lou Hamer;” “Amchitka”—an island off Alaska, the site of nuclear testing;” “Dear Alien”— LOL advise from the columnist!” & a return engagement --“A Hundred Words for Snow.” Jim Nash, former Nhmtn City Council Pres on overrides in Easthampton June 9 & Northampton next year. Political Gold with Josh Silver: the mid-terms & what are the odds. ArtBeat w/Donnabelle Casis & artist Mahwish Chisty and Ehmtn OOO gallery owners Emma Chubb & Matt Cummings on “Wounds” & how you can help repair the wounds of war.
5/29/26, Co-Host Josh Silver MTA Pres Max Page: Trump's tax credits for private & religious schools, an attack on public education. Chester Theatre's Co-Artistic Directors Chris Baker & Michelle Ong-Hendrick on upcoming plays: “Buckminster Fuller—The History (and Mystery) of the Universe;” “Fanny—The Music and Life of Fanny Lou Hamer;” “Amchitka”—an island off Alaska, the site of nuclear testing;” “Dear Alien”— LOL advise from the columnist!” & a return engagement --“A Hundred Words for Snow.” Jim Nash, former Nhmtn City Council Pres on overrides in Easthampton June 9 & Northampton next year. Political Gold with Josh Silver: the mid-terms & what are the odds. ArtBeat w/Donnabelle Casis & artist Mahwish Chisty and Ehmtn OOO gallery owners Emma Chubb & Matt Cummings on “Wounds” & how you can help repair the wounds of war.
5/22/26 (Co-Host Josh Silver) Max Page, Mass Teachers Ass'n Pres: $ for schools & higher ed this year, and college in three years, not four—the debate is joined. Rep Mindy Domb. The reveal—she's a night owl and Stephen Colbert's last show made her laugh and cry—for many reasons that she shares. Also, the Blue Envelope Bill is close to becoming law. Congrats Rep Dom and Sen Comerford. Alex Bowman from the new AAA -- All Ages and Abilities: shared use trails, electric bikes, the expanding bike trail network, new state regs and laws? Political Gold with Josh Silver: Trump's plummeting poll numbers portend what? ArtBeat With Donnabelle Casis and Will Baczek: his 30th anniversary show featuring Scott Prior and Nanny Vonnegut and other stars and celebrating art here.
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.
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 & Debra Way: “What Wears You.”
Hyperlocal 4/24/26: (Co-host Buz Eisenberg): MTA Pres Max Page: bell to bell cell phone bans & controlling exploitive social media. Rep Mindy Domb: a violent death at UMass & Hampshire College's closing. UMass Professor of Chinese History & Guggenheim Fellow (& NHS grad) Stephen Platt. Fishwrap on Ruth Suyenaga's powerful DHG and Recorder piece on ICE and internment camps. Donnabelle Casis' ArtBeat: the Easthampton Film Festival.
Ticks & Stars 4/16/26: Immunologist Dr Jonathan Bayuk: flu, measles, covid, Lyme, EEE & West Nile. “Young@Heart Meets Y@H NYC:” local stars Bob Cilman & Sonya Nieto w/ NYC stars Evette Mercedes, Patrick McCarthy & Wayne Brockman. MTA Pres Max Page: the House budget just dropped. “An All-Star Klezmer Evening” w/ Jake Shulman-Ment & Ira Temple. Gld Recorder & DHG Ex Ed Dan Crowley: breaking news, overrides & Hampshire Coll closing.
Darkness and Light 4/10/26: MTA Pres Max Page w/ UMass Prof & PRIM candidate Lenore Paladino: handling $130 Billion, safeguarding retirement. Night Fest Saturday April 18 w/ Catherine Moriarity & Don Darnell. Fix and repair your stuff at Smith Voc — with David Starr. Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron: the horrifying mega media marriage with Trump presiding. The fight for cell-phone free schools w/ Emily Boddy. Hut x3—SCDT performance this weekend w/ Jennifer Polins, Cameron Childs & Donnabelle Casis.
Transparent Marks 4/7/26: Sen Paul Mark: the supplemental budget vote tomorrow & more $ for education. Best-selling author Nathan Edmondson: “The Master: A Novel of Golf and Death.” MTA Pres Max Page w/ Matthew Scheffler: investing $130 billion—the public employees pension fund, its benchmarks, & the fight for transparency. Professors Amilcar Shabazz & Idris Robinson: the Black experience in America today.
4/7/26: Sen Paul Mark: the supplemental budget vote tomorrow & more $ for education. Best-selling author Nathan Edmondson: “The Master: A Novel of Golf and Death.” MTA Pres Max Page w/ Matthew Scheffler: investing $130 billion—the public employees pension fund, its benchmarks, & the fight for transparency. Professors Amilcar Shabazz & Idris Robinson: the Black experience in America today.
Play Among the Stars 4/3/26: MTA Pres Max Page: school funding & tax cutting. Community Action Pioneer Valley's Lev Ben Ezra (Ex Dir) & Frances Hall (Dir, Community Services): WIC prospers. Astronomer Salman Hameed: going to the moon, Mars & war. Silver on Iran & November. Donnabelle Casis' ArtBeat w/ Northampton Playwright Lab's Harley Erdman & Talya Kingston.
In Our Interest 3/20/26: Labor leaders Max Page & Jon Weissman: protesting Bank of America. Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump's cognition & media's giving him a pass. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: ICE in Massachusetts & the ballot questions. Trustees of Reservations' Wendy Ferris: Beaver Brook's Rewilding & other Trustees' lands here for us; Political Gold w/ Josh Silver: resistance.
In Our Interest 3/20/26: Labor leaders Max Page & Jon Weissman: protesting Bank of America. Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump's cognition & media's giving him a pass. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: ICE in Massachusetts & the ballot questions. Trustees of Reservations' Wendy Ferris: Beaver Brook's Rewilding & other Trustees' lands here for us; Political Gold w/ Josh Silver: resistance.
In Our Interest 3/20/26: Labor leaders Max Page & Jon Weissman: protesting Bank of America. Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump's cognition & media's giving him a pass. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: ICE in Massachusetts & the ballot questions. Trustees of Reservations' Wendy Ferris: Beaver Brook's Rewilding & other Trustees' lands here for us; Political Gold w/ Josh Silver: resistance.
In Our Interest 3/20/26: Labor leaders Max Page & Jon Weissman: protesting Bank of America. Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump's cognition & media's giving him a pass. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: ICE in Massachusetts & the ballot questions. Trustees of Reservations' Wendy Ferris: Beaver Brook's Rewilding & other Trustees' lands here for us; Political Gold w/ Josh Silver: resistance.
In Our Interest 3/20/26: Labor leaders Max Page & Jon Weissman: protesting Bank of America. Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump's cognition & media's giving him a pass. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: ICE in Massachusetts & the ballot questions. Trustees of Reservations' Wendy Ferris: Beaver Brook's Rewilding & other Trustees' lands here for us; Political Gold w/ Josh Silver: resistance.
Explosive Content 3/6/26: MTA Pres Max Page: AP scores --we're no.1!, rural school $, the Bright Act & the tax cut referendum. Community Action Pioneer Valley's Ex Dir Lev BenEzra & Bd Pres Charity Day: Help—an emergency need for fuel assistance funds & the lived experience. Hampshire Coll Prof & astronomer Salman Hameed: the Iran War & other Black Holes. Donnabelle Casis w/ Heart for the Soul Gallery Ex Dir Sierra Meyers: the Inhairitance Exhibit.
2.27 As Public as Possible Your State U w/ Max Page & Prof & Author David Backer “As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Schools” Buz - The Massachusetts Government's Response To ICE Buz & Andy On Trump & USA Hockey Umass Asst Prof & Research Astronomer Jorge Zavala – Missing Link In Galaxy Evolution Art Beat: Amanda Herman Of The Umass Contemporary Arts Museum – 50 Year Anniv – w/Sally Curcio & Alana Casey
2.27 As Public as Possible Your State U w/ Max Page & Prof & Author David Backer “As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Schools” Buz - The Massachusetts Government's Response To ICE Buz & Andy On Trump & USA Hockey Umass Asst Prof & Research Astronomer Jorge Zavala – Missing Link In Galaxy Evolution Art Beat: Amanda Herman Of The Umass Contemporary Arts Museum – 50 Year Anniv – w/Sally Curcio & Alana Casey
2.27 As Public as Possible Your State U w/ Max Page & Prof & Author David Backer “As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Schools” Buz - The Massachusetts Government's Response To ICE Buz & Andy On Trump & USA Hockey Umass Asst Prof & Research Astronomer Jorge Zavala – Missing Link In Galaxy Evolution Art Beat: Amanda Herman Of The Umass Contemporary Arts Museum – 50 Year Anniv – w/Sally Curcio & Alana Casey
2.27 As Public as Possible Your State U w/ Max Page & Prof & Author David Backer “As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Schools” Buz - The Massachusetts Government's Response To ICE Buz & Andy On Trump & USA Hockey Umass Asst Prof & Research Astronomer Jorge Zavala – Missing Link In Galaxy Evolution Art Beat: Amanda Herman Of The Umass Contemporary Arts Museum – 50 Year Anniv – w/Sally Curcio & Alana Casey
2.27 As Public as Possible Your State U w/ Max Page & Prof & Author David Backer “As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Schools” Buz - The Massachusetts Government's Response To ICE Buz & Andy On Trump & USA Hockey Umass Asst Prof & Research Astronomer Jorge Zavala – Missing Link In Galaxy Evolution Art Beat: Amanda Herman Of The Umass Contemporary Arts Museum – 50 Year Anniv – w/Sally Curcio & Alana Casey
2/20: Money & Life Max Page & Riley Hernandez, president of the Springfield Education Association: Healthcare and school funding Lindsay Sabadosa: Healthcare and Education Buz & Dan on schools and regionalization Amherst College Austin Sarat: Pam Bondi performance & November 2026 election nightmare Buz and Dan on AI: Pros & Cons Bombyx Director Cassandra Holden & Kristin Neville on MacArthur "Genius" grant winner Corey Harris Friday, February 27, 2026, at 7:00 PM
2.13.26—The Endgame Max Page and Peter Enrich-Raise Up Mass Coalition on Ballot Initiatives $7 or 8 billion in cuts John Feffer and John Berkowitz—Ukraine War End game? Al Williams of Northampton Open Media (NOM) & Jeff Mastroianni – Executive Director (E-Media)-YouTube Censorship & Local Media Survival. Donnabelle Casis—JooYoung Choi, AstroFuturist artist, “Quantum Soup Surfer,” at Amherst College Mead Museum.
2/6/26: Your State U Max/Page-Carolyn Chou, head of Homes for All, rent control & Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on exploding health care cost Lev BenEzra-Community Action—Peter Wingate, Director of Energy & Weatherization Programs: It's Freezing Salman Hameed—Mr. Universe— Science, Kids, Learning & A Galaxy Far, Far Away Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis—Elizabeth Stone, ZRzosalyn Driscoll, Tori Lawrence, Light Being—darkness & LIGHT.
1/30/26: MTA Pres. Max Page: taxing billionaires from Massachusetts to Washington State. Josh Silver w/ Atty Steve Jonas -- Democracy Defenders Fund: can the courts save us? Josh Silver: Nmpton Open Media, YouTube, polarization & diss-course. Donnabelle Casis w/ -- Tuman & Newman: “Every Day Is Play: The Art of Dave Rothstein.”
1/30/26: MTA Pres. Max Page: taxing billionaires from Massachusetts to Washington State. Josh Silver w/ Atty Steve Jonas -- Democracy Defenders Fund: can the courts save us? Josh Silver: Nmpton Open Media, YouTube, polarization & diss-course. Donnabelle Casis w/ -- Tuman & Newman: “Every Day Is Play: The Art of Dave Rothstein.”
1/30/26: MTA Pres. Max Page: taxing billionaires from Massachusetts to Washington State. Josh Silver w/ Atty Steve Jonas -- Democracy Defenders Fund: can the courts save us? Josh Silver: Nmpton Open Media, YouTube, polarization & diss-course. Donnabelle Casis w/ -- Tuman & Newman: “Every Day Is Play: The Art of Dave Rothstein.”
1/30/26: MTA Pres. Max Page: taxing billionaires from Massachusetts to Washington State. Josh Silver w/ Atty Steve Jonas -- Democracy Defenders Fund: can the courts save us? Josh Silver: Nmpton Open Media, YouTube, polarization & diss-course. Donnabelle Casis w/ -- Tuman & Newman: “Every Day Is Play: The Art of Dave Rothstein.”