3/12/24:  Rep. Pat Duffy: St. Patrick's Day & housing.  Duke Goldman: hope for the Red Sox?  Todd Gazda, Ex. Dir., Ed. Collaborative:  schools, lacking cash, experiencing bullying and racism.  Sarah & Ryan Voiland -- the catastrophic fire at Red Fire Farm – the community's response & how you can help.

3/12/24:  Rep. Pat Duffy: St. Patrick's Day & housing.  Duke Goldman: hope for the Red Sox?  Todd Gazda, Ex. Dir., Ed. Collaborative:  schools, lacking cash, experiencing bullying and racism.  Sarah & Ryan Voiland -- the catastrophic fire at Red Fire Farm – the community's response & how you can help.

Co-host Dan Torres talks to Sophie Michaux, Lysander Jaffe, Adam Simon, Lexi Ugelow, and Daniel Fridley, members of Culomba, a professional vocal ensemble specializing in close harmony folk singing. We discuss the meaning of the name, the ensemble's origin, the struggles of being an artist, and the regions that inspire them.

3/11/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on schools, decent housing & St. Paddy's Day.  Amilcar Shabazz w/ award winning community activists Pat Ononibaku & Councilor Ellisha Walker. Tapestry Health's CEO Mavis Nimoh on reproductive rights & safe sites. Megan Zinn on commas that divide us.

3/11/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on schools, decent housing & St. Paddy's Day.  Amilcar Shabazz w/ award winning community activists Pat Ononibaku & Councilor Ellisha Walker. Tapestry Health's CEO Mavis Nimoh on reproductive rights & safe sites. Megan Zinn on commas that divide us.

3/11/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on schools, decent housing & St. Paddy's Day.  Amilcar Shabazz w/ award winning community activists Pat Ononibaku & Councilor Ellisha Walker. Tapestry Health's CEO Mavis Nimoh on reproductive rights & safe sites. Megan Zinn on commas that divide us.

3/11/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on schools, decent housing & St. Paddy's Day.  Amilcar Shabazz w/ award winning community activists Pat Ononibaku & Councilor Ellisha Walker. Tapestry Health's CEO Mavis Nimoh on reproductive rights & safe sites. Megan Zinn on commas that divide us.

WMBS 3.9.24 Podcast by WHMP Radio

Noelle Hanrahan was 57 when she attended law school. As a founding member of Prison Radio dot org, Noelle realized that it wasn’t enough to just be a journalist and broadcast the voices of those incarcerated individuals who were brave enough to speak out about prison treatment and conditions, she needed to find a way to get their release. Prison Radio stories serve as catalysts for policy changes, public awareness campaigns and community activism aimed at addressing systemic issues within the justice system. Across the U.S. there are approximately 5.5 million people under a form of correctional control.

3/8/24: MTA's Max Page: Biden, unions & MCAS. Scott Coen: UMass & the MAC. Donnabelle Casis w/ MHC prof Dixon Williams on Anila Quayyum Agha. Carrie Baker w/ Merle Hoffman: "Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto." Megan Zinn w/ poet Carolina Hotchandani ("The Bookeaters") & Perugia Press' Becky Olander.