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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In Hampshire Superior Court, in Northampton, Mass., a judge denied an emergency motion by the the Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools to stop a former employee from being reinstated to a job she was fired from. -
After what might feel like a fleeting summer break, most Massachusetts schools start the new year this week. In Holyoke, Mass., students started Monday and after a decade of state receivership, decisions about the district are once again back in the hands of school committee members. -
Two Palestinian American women have become the second generation of their family businesses. One is a restaurant owner in Brooklyn, New York. One is a book publisher in Northampton, Massachusetts. They're connected through their culture, their families — and through the publishing of a new Palestinian cookbook. -
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.
![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)
