WHMP Radio

5/14/26 (Co-Host Buz Eisenberg) Eric Nakajima, Holyoke Dir of Economic Development: housing for all. Eric Reeves, Founder of Project Zam Zam: the catastrophe in Sudan and Darfur. Buz and Bill on local overrides and Prop 2 ½. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: the erroneous conflating of Judaism with Netanyahu’s government. Michael Klare, Five (Four?) College Prof. Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: Tru...

5/14/26 (Co-Host Buz Eisenberg) Eric Nakajima, Holyoke Dir of Economic Development: housing for all. Eric Reeves, Founder of Project Zam Zam: the catastrophe in Sudan and Darfur. Buz and Bill on local overrides and Prop 2 ½. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: the erroneous conflating of Judaism with Netanyahu’s government. Michael Klare, Five (Four?) College Prof. Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: Tru...

5/13/26 (Co-Host Brian Adams) Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Town Councilor: Hampshire College’s closing -- what we know and when we know it and maybe a silver lining for the town? Emily Boddy & Laura Erny, from ReConnect Western MA: “Digital Delusions—How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids.” Darcy DuMont & Paul Fenn, founder & Pres of Local Power: The green energy you think you’ve been buying isn’t gre...

5/13/26 (Co-Host Brian Adams) Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Town Councilor: Hampshire College’s closing -- what we know and when we know it and maybe a silver lining for the town? Emily Boddy & Laura Erny, from ReConnect Western MA: “Digital Delusions—How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids.” Darcy DuMont & Paul Fenn, founder & Pres of Local Power: The green energy you think you’ve been buying isn’t gre...

5/13/26 (Co-Host Brian Adams) Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Town Councilor: Hampshire College’s closing -- what we know and when we know it and maybe a silver lining for the town? Emily Boddy & Laura Erny, from ReConnect Western MA: “Digital Delusions—How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids.” Darcy DuMont & Paul Fenn, founder & Pres of Local Power: The green energy you think you’ve been buying isn’t gre...

5/13/26 (Co-Host Brian Adams) Lynn Griesemer, Amherst Town Councilor: Hampshire College’s closing -- what we know and when we know it and maybe a silver lining for the town? Emily Boddy & Laura Erny, from ReConnect Western MA: “Digital Delusions—How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids.” Darcy DuMont & Paul Fenn, founder & Pres of Local Power: The green energy you think you’ve been buying isn’t gre...

5/12/26 (co-host Prof Amilcar Shabazz) Rep Pat Duffy: Holyoke educators win a contract, the future of the Farm Bill & the Protect Act. Hadley School Superintendent Anne McKenzie: the proposed overrides – the people will decide soon. National Bike Month, Baystate Bike Month & Northampton Bike Week w/ George Kohout, Pres, Friends of Northampton Trails & Rick Ranti, Coordinator, Bikes for All: with w...

5/12/26 (co-host Prof Amilcar Shabazz) Rep Pat Duffy: Holyoke educators win a contract, the future of the Farm Bill & the Protect Act. Hadley School Superintendent Anne McKenzie: the proposed overrides – the people will decide soon. National Bike Month, Baystate Bike Month & Northampton Bike Week w/ George Kohout, Pres, Friends of Northampton Trails & Rick Ranti, Coordinator, Bikes for All: with w...

5/12/26 (co-host Prof Amilcar Shabazz) Rep Pat Duffy: Holyoke educators win a contract, the future of the Farm Bill & the Protect Act. Hadley School Superintendent Anne McKenzie: the proposed overrides – the people will decide soon. National Bike Month, Baystate Bike Month & Northampton Bike Week w/ George Kohout, Pres, Friends of Northampton Trails & Rick Ranti, Coordinator, Bikes for All: with w...

5/12/26 (co-host Prof Amilcar Shabazz) Rep Pat Duffy: Holyoke educators win a contract, the future of the Farm Bill & the Protect Act. Hadley School Superintendent Anne McKenzie: the proposed overrides – the people will decide soon. National Bike Month, Baystate Bike Month & Northampton Bike Week w/ George Kohout, Pres, Friends of Northampton Trails & Rick Ranti, Coordinator, Bikes for All: with w...

5/11/26 ( Co-Host Megan Zinn) Safe Passage Exec Dir Marianne Winter & author Patricia Lee Lewis: “Story Telling as Healing, the event at 33 Hawley.” Novelist Joanna Margaret: “The Daughters” –a thriller, a preview of her Odyssey Bookshop reading this Wednesday. Jarrett Krosoczka: RISE Fest—an amazing literary and art event of, by and for young people at Northampton HS. Corrine Coryat, candidate fo...

5/11/26 ( Co-Host Megan Zinn) Safe Passage Exec Dir Marianne Winter & author Patricia Lee Lewis: “Story Telling as Healing, the event at 33 Hawley.” Novelist Joanna Margaret: “The Daughters” –a thriller, a preview of her Odyssey Bookshop reading this Wednesday. Jarret Krozoska: RISE Fest—an amazing literary and art event of, by and for young people at Northampton HS. Corrine Coryat, candidate for...

5/11/26 ( Co-Host Megan Zinn) Safe Passage Exec Dir Marianne Winter & author Patricia Lee Lewis: “Story Telling as Healing, the event at 33 Hawley.” Novelist Joanna Margaret: “The Daughters” –a thriller, a preview of her Odyssey Bookshop reading this Wednesday. Jarret Krozoska: RISE Fest—an amazing literary and art event of, by and for young people at Northampton HS. Corrine Coryat, candidate for...

5/11/26 ( Co-Host Megan Zinn) Safe Passage Exec Dir Marianne Winter & author Patricia Lee Lewis: “Story Telling as Healing, the event at 33 Hawley.” Novelist Joanna Margaret: “The Daughters” –a thriller, a preview of her Odyssey Bookshop reading this Wednesday. Jarret Krozoska: RISE Fest—an amazing literary and art event of, by and for young people at Northampton HS. Corrine Coryat, candidate for...

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Behind every prison sentence is a family story. In this deeply personal Mother’s Day episode of The Hustler Files, you’ll meet Daisy Diaz, a justice-impacted woman and mother who shares how it felt to be the ugly duckling of her family and live on the streets beginning at the age of 12. From navigating her addictions, to her rollercoaster of incarceration, and then separation from her own children...

Join us as we speak to Jennifer Derringer (Managing Attorney of the Franklin and Hampshire County) and Tom Navin (Development Director) from Community Legal Aid to learn about their 75 years of helping people across the state get legal services at, they would otherwise not be able to afford (or the system easily navigated). Started in 1951, as Western MA Legal Services, the focus has been on low i...

5/7/26 (co-host Buz Eisenberg). Food Bank of Western Mass Dev Dir Jillian Morgan: 40%-50% of people here are food insecure. Mental Health Law Prof Frederick Vars: “Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other,” his own hospitalizations, self-help groups, meds & hope. Congressman Jim McGovern: the feds v Smith Coll, elections 2026 & the War in Iran. All That Jazz w/ Ru...

5/7/26 (co-host Buz Eisenberg). Food Bank of Western Mass Dev Dir Jillian Morgan: 40%-50% of people here are food insecure. Mental Health Law Prof Frederick Vars: “Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other,” his own hospitalizations, self-help groups, meds & hope. Congressman Jim McGovern: the feds v Smith Coll, elections 2026 & the War in Iran. All That Jazz w/ Ru...

5/7/26 (co-host Buz Eisenberg). Food Bank of Western Mass Dev Dir Jillian Morgan: 40%-50% of people here are food insecure. Mental Health Law Prof Frederick Vars: “Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other,” his own hospitalizations, self-help groups, meds & hope. Congressman Jim McGovern: the feds v Smith Coll, elections 2026 & the War in Iran. All That Jazz w/ Ru...

5/7/26 (co-host Buz Eisenberg). Food Bank of Western Mass Dev Dir Jillian Morgan: 40%-50% of people here are food insecure. Mental Health Law Prof Frederick Vars: “Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other,” his own hospitalizations, self-help groups, meds & hope. Congressman Jim McGovern: the feds v Smith Coll, elections 2026 & the War in Iran. All That Jazz w/ Ru...