WHMP Radio

4/29/26 (co-host Brain Adams) Amy Newshore, relationship coach: need help? Lynn Hersey, Smith BBall Coach, & star player Hannah Martin: women’s sports and what it takes to win. Gretchen Savenson from the Rich Earth Institute: Peecycling. Larry Hott w/ Roger Sorkin on “The Burden” & “Tidewater:” fossil fuels & the military.

4/29/26 (co-host Brain Adams) Amy Newshore, relationship coach: need help? Lynn Hersey, Smith BBall Coach, & star player Hannah Martin: women’s sports and what it takes to win. Gretchen Savenson from the Rich Earth Institute: Peecycling. Larry Hott w/ Roger Sorkin on “The Burden” & “Tidewater:” fossil fuels & the military.

4/29/26 (co-host Brain Adams) Amy Newshore, relationship coach: need help? Lynn Hersey, Smith BBall Coach, & star player Hannah Martin: women’s sports and what it takes to win. Gretchen Savenson from the Rich Earth Institute: Peecycling. Larry Hott w/ Roger Sorkin on “The Burden” & “Tidewater:” fossil fuels & the military.

4/29/26 (co-host Brain Adams) Amy Newshore, relationship coach: need help? Lynn Hersey, Smith BBall Coach, & star player Hannah Martin: women’s sports and what it takes to win. Gretchen Savenson from the Rich Earth Institute: Peecycling. Larry Hott w/ Roger Sorkin on “The Burden” & “Tidewater:” fossil fuels & the military.

4/28/26 (Co-host Amilcar Shabazz) Reparations: a discussion w/ Dr Shabazz. Sci-Tech Café: MHC Prof Kirsten Norstrom w/ UMass Kinesiology Prof Amanda Paluch: keep on walkin’. Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondolowski: health insurance costs, layoffs? Baystate nurses’ strike, a green city. Duke Goldman: Why so few Black coaches in the NFL?

4/28/26 (Co-host Amilcar Shabazz) Reparations: a discussion w/ Dr Shabazz. Sci-Tech Café: MHC Prof Kirsten Norstrom w/ UMass Kinesiology Prof Amanda Paluch: keep on walkin’. Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondolowski: health insurance costs, layoffs? Baystate nurses’ strike, a green city. Duke Goldman: Why so few Black coaches in the NFL?

4/28/26 (Co-host Amilcar Shabazz) Reparations: a discussion w/ Dr Shabazz. Sci-Tech Café: MHC Prof Kirsten Norstrom w/ UMass Kinesiology Prof Amanda Paluch: keep on walkin’. Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondolowski: health insurance costs, layoffs? Baystate nurses’ strike, a green city. Duke Goldman: Why so few Black coaches in the NFL?

4/28/26 (Co-host Amilcar Shabazz) Reparations: a discussion w/ Dr Shabazz. Sci-Tech Café: MHC Prof Kirsten Norstrom w/ UMass Kinesiology Prof Amanda Paluch: keep on walkin’. Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondolowski: health insurance costs, layoffs? Baystate nurses’ strike, a green city. Duke Goldman: Why so few Black coaches in the NFL?

7/27/26: Co Host: Megan Zinn Tony Giardina w/ Francis DeBernardo: New Ways Ministry and Catholics for Inclusion. Megan Zinn w/ Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Fat Swim.” Prison Policy Initiative’s Mike Wessler: the Just Income Program & $445 billion/yr to lock people up. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: Hampshire Coll closing, the budget & ed funding.

7/27/26: Co Host: Megan Zinn Tony Giardina w/ Francis DeBernardo: New Ways Ministry and Catholics for Inclusion. Megan Zinn w/ Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Fat Swim.” Prison Policy Initiative’s Mike Wessler: the Just Income Program & $445 billion/yr to lock people up. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: Hampshire Coll closing, the budget & ed funding.

7/27/26: Co Host: Megan Zinn Tony Giardina w/ Francis DeBernardo: New Ways Ministry and Catholics for Inclusion. Megan Zinn w/ Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Fat Swim.” Prison Policy Initiative’s Mike Wessler: the Just Income Program & $445 billion/yr to lock people up. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: Hampshire Coll closing, the budget & ed funding.

7/27/26: Co Host: Megan Zinn Tony Giardina w/ Francis DeBernardo: New Ways Ministry and Catholics for Inclusion. Megan Zinn w/ Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Fat Swim.” Prison Policy Initiative’s Mike Wessler: the Just Income Program & $445 billion/yr to lock people up. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: Hampshire Coll closing, the budget & ed funding.

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’ ArtBea...

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’ ArtBea...

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’ ArtBea...

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’ ArtBea...

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’ ArtBea...

April is Second Chance Month, and this episode brings two powerful stories that show what can happen when opportunity meets determination. First, we welcome back Brandon Downey, who first joined us in Episode 19 while rebuilding his life after incarceration. Now, several years later, Brandon returns to share how recovery, persistence, and the support of second chance employers helped him transform...

“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

“All Are Interested in All” 4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate. Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.” All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.

Life, Death & Sports 4/22/26 (co-host Brian Adams): Alison Keller, end-of-life doula. Karen Miller, Cooley Dick & VNA Hospice Manager: National Health Care Decisions Month. Forbes Library’s Priya Charry & Smith College journalism prof Naila Moreira: “Ecological and Climate Fiction for All Generations.” Smith Prof Erica Tibbetts: Sport for Social Change.

Life, Death & Sports 4/22/26 (co-host Brian Adams): Alison Keller, end-of-life doula. Karen Miller, Cooley Dick & VNA Hospice Manager: National Health Care Decisions Month. Forbes Library’s Priya Charry & Smith College journalism prof Naila Moreira: “Ecological and Climate Fiction for All Generations.” Smith Prof Erica Tibbetts: Sport for Social Change.

Life, Death & Sports 4/22/26 (co-host Brian Adams): Alison Keller, end-of-life doula. Karen Miller, Cooley Dick & VNA Hospice Manager: National Health Care Decisions Month. Forbes Library’s Priya Charry & Smith College journalism prof Naila Moreira: “Ecological and Climate Fiction for All Generations.” Smith Prof Erica Tibbetts: Sport for Social Change.