Jill Kaufman
Reporter/Producer/HostJill Kaufman has been a reporter and host at NEPM since 2005. Before that she spent 10 years at WBUR in Boston, producing The Connection with Christopher Lydon, Morning Edition, reporting and hosting. In the months leading up to the 2000 presidential primary in New Hampshire, Jill hosted NHPR’s daily talk show The Exchange. Right before coming to NEPM, Jill was an editor at PRX's The World.
She can be reached at jill_kaufman [at] nepm.org.
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The owners of the music and arts venue Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, Mass., have announced they will close in the coming weeks. A plan to sell the property, equipment and liquor license is underway and they're blaming this moment in part on lack of city support.
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American culture has long been infused with the work of artists who come to the U.S. from around the world. A current exhibit at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst features the work of artists with origins in Africa, the Middle East, India and Europe.
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As family and friends come together for various holidays this and next month, will it be possible to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas, as many people disagree so strongly about what's happening and what should happen next. Maybe, with some agreements in place, says John Sarrouf from Essential Partners in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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It's an open mayoral race in Agawam, Massachusetts. The two candidates on the ballot, Cecilia Calabrese and Chris Johnson, have worked on the City Council for years, side by side, and their priorities are not that different.
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Massachusetts Education Commissioner Jeff Riley will respond to the Holyoke School Committee's petition to end receivership in early 2024.
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At a meeting of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, regulators shared policy ideas about "social consumption" lounges already open in other states.
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The number of homeless families in Massachusetts continues to rise. As of October 2023, almost 7,000 families are living in emergency shelters — hotels, dorms and apartments — run by the state. In many communities, including West Springfield, the children enroll in public schools, where educators try to meet learning and basic needs.
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Four candidates are on the preliminary ballot, with the top two advancing to the November general election.
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A preliminary election in Agawam will winnow the field of four mayoral candidates to two.
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Eric Suher, owner of the Calvin Theater, told the Northampton License Commission Monday he had a business agreement with two well established concert promoters to reopen the music venue which once brought big name musicians and comedians to the city.