Public Affairs

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Observances

Jim Madigan speaks with Eileen McCaffrey, interim Executive Director of the  Community Music School of Springfield; Ronn Brown, interim Executive Director of  MLK Jr. Family Services; and Benjamin Smith, Executive Director DREAM Studios in Springfield. The three...

Connecticut Casino Reaction

As Western Mass moves through the process of introducing casinos to the state, we look at the impact of casinos in Connecticut. Connecting Point Correspondent Carolee McGrath reports the reviews are mixed, depending on whom you...

Fuel Assistance

Valley Opportunity Council Executive Director Stephen Huntley and V.O.C. Energy Programs Director Gail Pisacane discuss fuel assistance available this heating season to area residents who qualify. Will there be enough money in the fund to cover the...

YWCA Workforce Readiness Program

YWCA of Western Mass Executive Director Mary Reardon Johnson and Dawn DiStefano,YWCA Director of Resource Development, discuss the work force readiness program being provided by the YWCA specifically for women in the region who are survivors of domestic...

Human Trafficking

Dan Viederman of Verite in Amherst discusses how companies can follow the Obama administration’s  policy and eliminate human trafficking from contracts they may...

Professor Jan Dizard on Gun Laws

Amherst College Professor Jan Dizard discusses guns, gun laws, and hunting in the wake of Newtown, CT. Dizard is the author of several books including “Guns inAmerica: Contesting the Legitimacy of the State”....

Prof. Susan Krauss Whitbourne on the CT Shootings

Prof. Susan Krauss Whitbourne UMass Psychology Professor Susan Krauss Whitbourne discusses her recent article “Can We Predict Who Kills from Knowing the Criminal Mind?” The article reacts and discusses the  December 14, 2012  Newtown, CT massacre.  ...

Fracking

Attorney Peter Vickery discusses his concerns & thepossible environmental dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” procedures to get shale gas that may be underground here in western Massachusetts....