Public Affairs

Vidur Dhanda

Vidur Dhanda is the  founder of Wain Street LLC, a Longmeadow-based startup firm aimed at helping to build up small businesses with the help of “big data’. Founder Bio: http://www.wainstreet.com/team#vidur The origins of WAIN Street:...

Links to Libraries

Susan Jaye-Kaplan, President & Co-Founder, and  Janet Crimmins, Co-Founder, of “Links to Libraries” discuss the organization’s work.   Gail Baquis, Project Director for Links to Libraries  “RAP (Reading Any Place)” program for...

The State We’re In: State Senator Jim Welch

State Senator Jim Welch (D) West Springfield and the Hampden District and Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, discusses the 2014 state budget, state finances, and efforts to fund transportation improvements in the...

National Nurses Week

In recognition of National Nurses Week, Patricia Samra, RN, Director of Clinical Workforce Planning at Baystate Medical Center, discusses the future of nursing and the growing role registered nurses are expected to play in health...

Holyoke Soliders’ Home

Paul Barabani, Superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, discusses his hopes to expand services for veterans as well as efforts to contain costs while maintaining and increasing programs offered at the...

Therapy Dogs International

Susan Burton is the communications manager at Baystate Health in Springfield.  Ralph is a 4 year old chocolate lab who has been trained to be a reading dog, certified through Therapy Dogs International.  Both Susan and Ralph volunteer at Baystate Health adult...

Magdalena Gomez

Magdalena Gomez,  founder and artistic director of Teatro V!da, discusses the book she co-authored, “Bullying: Replies, Rebuttals, Confessions and Catharsis” and reaction it has...