Dan Viederman, CEO of Verite

Dan Viederman, CEO of Verite, a non-profit firm based in Amherst which works with multi-national companies to ensure that workers making goods for those companies have safe working conditions and are being paid a fair wage....

Plan for Progress Update

Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Executive Director Tim Brennan and Paul Tangredi, Dir. Principal, Environmental Services, Inc. and Co-chair, “Plan for Progress” will discuss the 2011 annual update on the “Plan for Progress”, the...

Pioneer Valley Local First

Joan Grenier of the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley and President of “Pioneer Valley Local First” will discuss this organization aimed at promoting locally-owned businesses and its upcoming “Plaid Friday,” being observed by a number of local businesses in...

Sports Economics

Smith College Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist will discuss the labor issues in sports in general (i.e.:  NBA lockout, NFL pre-season getting a late start and recent MLB and NHL collective bargaining) and what relation it has to the current U.S. culture and...

MA Realtors

Vincent Walsh, Pres. , Realtor Assoc. of Pioneer Valley and Kevin Sears, Past-Pres. , Mass.  Realtors Assoc. discuss implications of the possible reduction or end of federal Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction and other issues facing homeowners in the current economy....

9/11 and the US Economy

Economist Prof. David Kotz from UMass/Amherst discusses his views on how the governments’ response to the 9/11 terror attacks has impacted the US economy over the past...

The Economy

Economist John Rogers, Associate Vice Pres. for Institutional Effectiveness at American Int’l College and Economics Prof. Karl Petrick of Western New England University will discuss the prospects for the US and world economy in this time of stock market...

Gas Prices

Guest: Robert Bolduc, President, Pride Stations Bob Bolduc discusses the future of gas prices for the summer and why he thinks gas prices are higher than last year. Watch this...

Andrea Nuciforo, Register of Deeds

Guest: Andrea Nuciforo, former Mass. State senator from the Berkshire District and now Register of Deeds for the Berkshire County Middle District. Nuciforo will discuss the impact of slow home sales on the Registries of Deeds across the Commonwealth – as well as his...

Western Mass Saves

Director of Western Mass Saves Jonathan Edwards and participant Julie Marcus discuss the web platform that provides personalized energy saving recommendations and allows residents to compare and make energy efficient choices. Additional Info: Western Massachusetts...

Western New England College Poll

Director of the Western New England College Polling Institute Prof. Tim Vercellotti discusses the recent poll findings that confidence in the economy is on the upswing here as well as US Senator Scott Brown’s prospects for re-election in 2012. Additional Info:...