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5/21/26 Memorial Day – so much and so many to remember – with Central Hampshire Veterans Service Director Steve Connor. Extra!! Extra!! w/ Gazette and Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: the Northampton Housing Authority, the Overrides, & Picture Main Street. UMass Ph. D. & Post- Doc Researcher Yuzhen Zhang on UMass-developed new technology, BactiSee – using a smart phone to detect bacteria in commercial...

5/21/26 Memorial Day – so much and so many to remember – with Central Hampshire Veterans Service Director Steve Connor. Extra!! Extra!! w/ Gazette and Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: the Northampton Housing Authority, the Overrides, & Picture Main Street. UMass Ph. D. & Post- Doc Researcher Yuzhen Zhang on UMass-developed new technology, BactiSee – using a smart phone to detect bacteria in commercial...

5/20/26(Co-Host Brian Adams) We Fishwrap Picture Main Street and the news on Hampshire’s closing. From Transitions Through Motion in Hatfield -- Leora Barry, Ex Dir, and Theresa Fischer: horses helping people. Kate Buckman, Aquatic Ecologist with the Greenfield-based Connecticut River Conservancy: happening here – fish on elevators, the great migration, nest building male fish, shad’s return from...

5/20/26(Co-Host Brian Adams) We Fishwrap Picture Main Street and the news on Hampshire’s closing. From Transitions Through Motion in Hatfield -- Leora Barry, Ex Dir, and Theresa Fischer: horses helping people. Kate Buckman, Aquatic Ecologist with the Greenfield-based Connecticut River Conservancy: happening here – fish on elevators, the great migration, nest building male fish, shad’s return from...

5/20/26(Co-Host Brian Adams) We Fishwrap Picture Main Street and the news on Hampshire’s closing. From Transitions Through Motion in Hatfield -- Leora Barry, Ex Dir, and Theresa Fischer: horses helping people. Kate Buckman, Aquatic Ecologist with the Greenfield-based Connecticut River Conservancy: happening here – fish on elevators, the great migration, nest building male fish, shad’s return from...

5/20/26(Co-Host Brian Adams) We Fishwrap Picture Main Street and the news on Hampshire’s closing. From Transitions Through Motion in Hatfield -- Leora Barry, Ex Dir, and Theresa Fischer: horses helping people. Kate Buckman, Aquatic Ecologist with the Greenfield-based Connecticut River Conservancy: happening here – fish on elevators, the great migration, nest building male fish, shad’s return from...

5/19/26 (Co-Host - Carrie Baker) Paradise City Arts Festival at the Fair Grounds this weekend—we visit with the show Director, Mariah Swanson—200+ artists and craftspersons, musicians (new, larger stages) and perfect weather for the show. Sci- Tech Café with MHC Prof Kerstin Norstrom & Hampshire Coll Ecology & Global Change Prof Jennifer Van Wyk: bees (gender is a social construct!), No Mow May, a...

5/19/26 (Co-Host - Carrie Baker) Paradise City Arts Festival at the Fair Grounds this weekend—we visit with the show Director, Mariah Swanson—200+ artists and craftspersons, musicians (new, larger stages) and perfect weather for the show. Sci- Tech Café with MHC Prof Kerstin Norstrom & Hampshire Coll Ecology & Global Change Prof Jennifer Van Wyk: bees (gender is a social construct!), No Mow May, a...

5/19/26 (Co-Host - Carrie Baker) Paradise City Arts Festival at the Fair Grounds this weekend—we visit with the show Director, Mariah Swanson—200+ artists and craftspersons, musicians (new, larger stages) and perfect weather for the show. Sci- Tech Café with MHC Prof Kerstin Norstrom & Hampshire Coll Ecology & Global Change Prof Jennifer Van Wyk: bees (gender is a social construct!), No Mow May, a...

5/19/26 (Co-Host - Carrie Baker) Paradise City Arts Festival at the Fair Grounds this weekend—we visit with the show Director, Mariah Swanson—200+ artists and craftspersons, musicians (new, larger stages) and perfect weather for the show. Sci- Tech Café with MHC Prof Kerstin Norstrom & Hampshire Coll Ecology & Global Change Prof Jennifer Van Wyk: bees (gender is a social construct!), No Mow May, a...

5/18/26 (Co-Host Megan Zinn) The three not so little bears in Bill’s neighborhood. Dr. David Gottsegen on plastics in our food and water. Megan Zinn with Katie DeBonville on “Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir.” Andrew Zimbalist, Smith Prof and sports expert: the World Cup coming to Mass -- an economic boondoggle? Michael Klare, Five College Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: War and Peac...

5/18/26 (Co-Host Megan Zinn) The three not so little bears in Bill’s neighborhood. Dr. David Gottsegen on plastics in our food and water. Megan Zinn with Katie DeBonville on “Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir.” Andrew Zimbalist, Smith Prof and sports expert: the World Cup coming to Mass -- an economic boondoggle? Michael Klare, Five College Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: War and Peac...

5/18/26 (Co-Host Megan Zinn) The three not so little bears in Bill’s neighborhood. Dr. David Gottsegen on plastics in our food and water. Megan Zinn with Katie DeBonville on “Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir.” Andrew Zimbalist, Smith Prof and sports expert: the World Cup coming to Mass -- an economic boondoggle? Michael Klare, Five College Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: War and Peac...

5/18/26 (Co-Host Megan Zinn) The three not so little bears in Bill’s neighborhood. Dr. David Gottsegen on plastics in our food and water. Megan Zinn with Katie DeBonville on “Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir.” Andrew Zimbalist, Smith Prof and sports expert: the World Cup coming to Mass -- an economic boondoggle? Michael Klare, Five College Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: War and Peac...

5/18/26 (Co-Host Megan Zinn) The three not so little bears in Bill’s neighborhood. Dr. David Gottsegen on plastics in our food and water. Megan Zinn with Katie DeBonville on “Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir.” Andrew Zimbalist, Smith Prof and sports expert: the World Cup coming to Mass -- an economic boondoggle? Michael Klare, Five College Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Security Studies: War and Peac...

What happens when decades spent behind prison walls helping others tell their stories inspires a powerful debut novel. In this episode of The Hustler Files, we sat down with longtime prison activist, educator, and author Jean Trounstine to discuss Sounds Like Trouble to Me, a gripping story shaped by the emotional realities of incarceration, abuse, survival, justice, and hope. Jean shares how year...

Join us as we hear from the new owners of Paradise City Arts, Elana Churnick Kritz and Mariah Swanson. They are not strangers to the arts and have developed quite a name for themselves in the art world before taking over the helm at PCA. A 30-year legacy is a hard ship to Captain, but they are taking it in stride and as a team. Please attend PCA on May 23-25 at the 3 County Fairgrounds, go to www....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

5/14/26 (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...