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California’s Insurance Crisis: Interview with Deputy Insurance Commissioner Michael Soller
In part II of "Have you Been Canceled?", a look at California's homeowner's insurance crisis, Rachel Anne Goodman talks with Deputy Insurance Commissioner and spokesperson for Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Michael Soller. She asks him about the proposed fixes coming from...
Alan Ritch – Mail Carrier
Alan Ritch introduces us to his mail carrier.
Espressivo: A Small Intense Orchestra
Host Mathilde Rand is in conversation with Michel Singher and Fred DeJarlais. The topic of discussion is Espressivo: the work, the joys and creativity of this Bay Area intense orchestra.
California’s Insurance Crisis Hits Homeowners Hard
In this program, State Senator John Laird and Executive Director of Consumer Watchdog, Carmen Balber discuss California's homeowner's insurance crisis and whether Commissioner Ricardo Lara's proposed fixes will actually help the flight of insurance companies from the...
The TRUE story of Santa Cruz Rail & Trail
This KSQD radio series of 4 episodes explores the real story with the real people who made the Santa Cruz County rail & trail project happen. With just a germ of an idea, County employees, elected officials, nonprofits, and volunteers slogged through years of opposition by an extreme minority of landowners to keep the project on the rails (so to speak!). Supported by housing equity advocates, environmentalists, cycling enthusiasts, and commuters alike, the project has been continually stalled and threatened by the actions of a select few.
Martin Rizzo-Martinez unfolds the history of the Native people who sustained and survived Mission Santa Cruz
Martin Rizzo-Martinez is a historian and a producer of film, podcast, and other media content. After completing his PhD at UC Santa Cruz in 2016, he became a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Dr. Cliff Trafzer at UC Riverside. Following his...
Lawsuit against Aptos Highway 1 Expansion
While the Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission celebrates the groundbreaking of the Highway 1 auxiliary lane, bus on shoulder, and Mar Vista bike and pedestrian overcrossing, a lawsuit has been filed by the Sierra Club and The Campaign for Sustainable...
Riding the waves of feminism: A conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker
“We need to get away from the violence in our speech and try to develop one filled with loving kindness, filled with compassion, filled with a vision of justice that's not vengeful.” These are the words of Bettina Aptheker, noted feminist scholar who is often...
Steve Pleich – Public Service
Steve Pleich reflects on public service in this 2013 piece. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.
What is “Private Equity” and What Are They Doing to Us?
Ami interviews Brendan Ballou, author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America in this show on the five-alarm fire sale of the "American dream,” good jobs, pensions and decent customer service to multi-billionaires in shadowy private equity firms. Ballou...