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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 Novemb...

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 Novemb...

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 Novemb...

Western Mass Business Show on 7/4/26 by WHMP Radio

July 1, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams District Attorney for Hampshire and Franklin Counties David Sullivan reviews this week’s Supreme Court decisions – a sobering assessment. Catherine (Cat) McEachern from ServiceNet’s Autism Connections on the Autism Prom, the Blue Envelope Bill, autism’s stigma—or not, & her journey. Rosalie Starvish, Water Resource Engineer: the Mill River, Smith College, dredging...

July 1, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams District Attorney for Hampshire and Franklin Counties David Sullivan reviews this week’s Supreme Court decisions – a sobering assessment. Catherine (Cat) McEachern from ServiceNet’s Autism Connections on the Autism Prom, the Blue Envelope Bill, autism’s stigma—or not, & her journey. Rosalie Starvish, Water Resource Engineer: the Mill River, Smith College, dredging...

July 1, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams District Attorney for Hampshire and Franklin Counties David Sullivan reviews this week’s Supreme Court decisions – a sobering assessment. Catherine (Cat) McEachern from ServiceNet’s Autism Connections on the Autism Prom, the Blue Envelope Bill, autism’s stigma—or not, & her journey. Rosalie Starvish, Water Resource Engineer: the Mill River, Smith College, dredging...

July 1, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams District Attorney for Hampshire and Franklin Counties David Sullivan reviews this week’s Supreme Court decisions – a sobering assessment. Catherine (Cat) McEachern from ServiceNet’s Autism Connections on the Autism Prom, the Blue Envelope Bill, autism’s stigma—or not, & her journey. Rosalie Starvish, Water Resource Engineer: the Mill River, Smith College, dredging...

6/30/26 Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Lisa Wong, So Hadley Town Administrator: overrides, budget-busting health insurance costs, what towns and cities are saying to each other. Tara Jacobs, Governor’s Councilor, on pardons, commutations, judicial confirmations & parole board nominees. Salman Hameed, professor and astronomer, on cotton-candy planets, signs of life, Project Hail Mary & airbags in space. L...

6/30/26 Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Lisa Wong, So Hadley Town Administrator: overrides, budget-busting health insurance costs, what towns and cities are saying to each other. Tara Jacobs, Governor’s Councilor, on pardons, commutations, judicial confirmations & parole board nominees. Salman Hameed, professor and astronomer, on cotton-candy planets, signs of life, Project Hail Mary & airbags in space. L...

6/30/26 Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Lisa Wong, So Hadley Town Administrator: overrides, budget-busting health insurance costs, what towns and cities are saying to each other. Tara Jacobs, Governor’s Councilor, on pardons, commutations, judicial confirmations & parole board nominees. Salman Hameed, professor and astronomer, on cotton-candy planets, signs of life, Project Hail Mary & airbags in space. L...

6/30/26 Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Lisa Wong, So Hadley Town Administrator: overrides, budget-busting health insurance costs, what towns and cities are saying to each other. Tara Jacobs, Governor’s Councilor, on pardons, commutations, judicial confirmations & parole board nominees. Salman Hameed, professor and astronomer, on cotton-candy planets, signs of life, Project Hail Mary & airbags in space. L...

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Founder of National Martyrs Day, July 5, honoring social justice warriors who died for the cause. Prof Browne-Marshall is the author of “A Protest History of the United States,” an award-winning playwright, and a Professor of Constitutional Law.

6/29/26, Co-Host -- Megan Zinn. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Founder of National Martyrs Day, July 5, honoring social justice warriors who died for the cause. Prof Browne-Marshall is the author of “A Protest History of the United States,” an award-winning playwright, and a Professor of Constitutional Law. Writers Block. Megan Zinn interviews Debra Curtis on “Laws of Love and Logic,” sisterhood, forg...

6/29/26, Co-Host -- Megan Zinn. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Founder of National Martyrs Day, July 5, honoring social justice warriors who died for the cause. Prof Browne-Marshall is the author of “A Protest History of the United States,” an award-winning playwright, and a Professor of Constitutional Law. Writers Block. Megan Zinn interviews Debra Curtis on “Laws of Love and Logic,” sisterhood, forg...

6/29/26, Co-Host -- Megan Zinn. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Founder of National Martyrs Day, July 5, honoring social justice warriors who died for the cause. Prof Browne-Marshall is the author of “A Protest History of the United States,” an award-winning playwright, and a Professor of Constitutional Law. Writers Block. Megan Zinn interviews Debra Curtis on “Laws of Love and Logic,” sisterhood, forg...

Join us as we speak to Claudia Pazmany Executive Director of the Downtown Amherst Foundation aka the Drake. Many know Claudia from her roles around the region including ED of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce and Development Director at the MLK Center in Springfield. She is joined by Gabrielle Gould, Founder and President of the Board at the Downtown Amherst Foundation and families face around the g...

In the annals of American history there is one speech delivered in 1852, by a former slave, that stood at the precipice of what today, we call social justice. This week on The Hustler Files Dr. LaToya Bosworth of Mass Humanities explores the enduring legacy of Frederick Douglass and the Massachusetts statewide initiative, Reading Frederick Douglass Together. His speech “What to the Slave is the Fo...

6/26/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the secret recording of RFK pushing to elect a loyal Trump Republican. A crime? Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: the BIG ongoing World Cup party and performances in his city w/ a sidebar on the Prop 2 ½ Override. Rep Mindy Domb on Amherst Pride, the Blue Envelope legislation—now law! & the anti-book-banning bill. Josh Silver on this week’...

6/26/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the secret recording of RFK pushing to elect a loyal Trump Republican. A crime? Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: the BIG ongoing World Cup party and performances in his city w/ a sidebar on the Prop 2 ½ Override. Rep Mindy Domb on Amherst Pride, the Blue Envelope legislation—now law! & the anti-book-banning bill. Josh Silver on this week’...

6/26/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the secret recording of RFK pushing to elect a loyal Trump Republican. A crime? Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: the BIG ongoing World Cup party and performances in his city w/ a sidebar on the Prop 2 ½ Override. Rep Mindy Domb on Amherst Pride, the Blue Envelope legislation—now law! & the anti-book-banning bill. Josh Silver on this week’...

6/26/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the secret recording of RFK pushing to elect a loyal Trump Republican. A crime? Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: the BIG ongoing World Cup party and performances in his city w/ a sidebar on the Prop 2 ½ Override. Rep Mindy Domb on Amherst Pride, the Blue Envelope legislation—now law! & the anti-book-banning bill. Josh Silver on this week’...

6/26/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Political Gold with Josh Silver: the secret recording of RFK pushing to elect a loyal Trump Republican. A crime? Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby: the BIG ongoing World Cup party and performances in his city w/ a sidebar on the Prop 2 ½ Override. Rep Mindy Domb on Amherst Pride, the Blue Envelope legislation—now law! & the anti-book-banning bill. Josh Silver on this week’...

6/25/26, Co-Host – Andy Bukowski. Nancy Talanian, Co-Founder, the western Mass-based Guantanamo Survivors Fund on her fund and tomorrow’s U.N. International Day In Support of Victims of Torture. Carol Rose, Exec Dir of the ACLU of Mass, on the passing of 40+year ACLUM Legal Director John Reinstein, SCOTUS, birthright citizenship, and celebrating July 4 –"Beyond 250” and “Fired Up for Freedom.” Car...

6/25/26, Co-Host – Andy Bukowski. Nancy Talanian, Co-Founder, the western Mass-based Guantanamo Survivors Fund on her fund and tomorrow’s U.N. International Day In Support of Victims of Torture. Carol Rose, Exec Dir of the ACLU of Mass, on the passing of 40+year ACLUM Legal Director John Reinstein, SCOTUS, birthright citizenship, and celebrating July 4 –"Beyond 250” and “Fired Up for Freedom.” Car...