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, 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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Elected members of the Holyoke School Committee were only advisors to the state for a decade, when the district was under state receivership. As of July 2025, they are once again the decision makers on matters impacting the district. -
Residents and visitors to Great Barrington can now take a seat on a marble bench, next to a life-size statue of the post Civil War scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. Organizers who brought the bronze likeness of Du Bois to life hope it creates a new curiosity about the co-founder of the NAACP — one of the town's most famous native sons. -
An occupational therapist in western Massachusetts is campaigning to change the image depicted on handicap parking space signs, from a passive stick figure in a wheel chair to a stick figure leaning forward and in motion. -
U.S. citizenship ceremonies are held several times a year around the country. Some coincide with federal holidays, including one held in Northampton, Mass., Friday July 4, 2025, on the lawn outside the city's historic courthouse. -
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Monday night that Holyoke Public Schools will exit chronically underperforming status on July 1. -
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Officials at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say with lack of clarity on federal funding cuts, proactive financial planning is now an urgent matter. -
Western Mass. writer and editor Jennifer Acker zeroed in on her top five epistolary books and it ended up being published in the Wall Street Journal. -
Several families from around western Massachusetts have an historic and personal connection to the Civil War and Juneteenth, dating back to June 19th, 1865. -
The new federal travel ban implemented by the Trump administration on certain countries as of June 9, 2025 comes with "a high degree of uncertainty" around actions and enforcement, UMass Amherst officials told the the international school community. -
One of the best known battles of the American Revolution may have been in Lexington, Mass. But a historic house about 100 miles west, in the town of Hadley, Mass., is among the many locations where people lived and labored — and played lesser known roles leading up to 1776.
![The UMass campus overlooking academic buildings and the W.E.B. Du Bois library [far left].](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/27e95cf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2246+0+0/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa9%2F56%2F25581c7a4eb1bd73805ad27419e4%2Fimg-0521.jpg)
