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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A federal anti-abortion case being heard by a Texas judge has the potential to impact states where abortion is legal. A federal judge in Texas appointed by Donald Trump is expected to rule soon whether to take an abortion pill, long ago approved by the FDA, off the market. -
Northampton cancels Pearl Street Nightclub liquor license, Iron Horse Music Hall license in jeopardyThe owner of several well known Northampton, Massachusetts, entertainment venues has until June 1st, 2023, to show that two of his many establishments are open for business, or potentially lose coveted liquor licenses.
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The president of the Greater Springfield NAACP, Talbert Swan II, was surprised to receive a letter this month from lawyers representing former NFL quarterback Brett Favre. Favre has been at the center of a multi-million dollar welfare fraud case in Mississippi.
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The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees on Thursday unanimously approved Javier Reyes as the next chancellor at UMass Amherst. Reyes is currently the interim chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago.
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University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan said Javier Reyes is his pick to become the next chancellor of the Amherst campus.
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Two finalists who emerged from a national search for the next chancellor at UMass Amherst were on campus the last few days. Paul Tikalsky is currently the dean of the college of engineering at Oklahoma State University. Javier Reyes is interim chancellor at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy plans to retire in July after 11 years leading the university.
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Union employees and management at the independent Amherst Cinema in Amherst, Massachusetts, announced they have signed a first ever contract, through June 2025.
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Classical musicians have filed a new complaint against the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, through a federal labor board. The players have been without a contract since August 2020.
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Supporters of renovating and reopening the Art Deco era Victory Theater in Holyoke, Massachusetts, say it has the capacity to be for the Pioneer Valley what Tanglewood is to the Berkshires.
