Local News from KSQD
After the Deluge
I hope you are staying dry this winter. I wish KSQD could say the same. Regardless of squids' love of water, that was tested on Sunday midnight as rainwater from a broken conduit poured into our station. Fortunately, thanks to the quick thinking of our intrepid...
Fake News and the Presidential Elections
As the presidential primary season gets underway, how will fake news influence how people, or whether people vote? How will it impact the views people hold about the nominees? What are deep fakes and how can we deal with them? Those are a few questions tackled by Dr....
Nonviolence Amid Escalating Social Tensions
As we watch public meetings devolve into shouting, politicians doxing and being doxed, private and public figures being harassed for their statements or views, and even a death threat on the life of Santa Cruz's mayor, how do we walk it back? That was a question I...
The Rail and Trail: Visiting the Past, Finding the Future
The question of whether to develop a passenger rail system along the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line has been explored, questioned, developed, studied, contested and voted on across an arc of nearly four decades. Santa Cruz county stands before two important inflection...
Fred Keeley Reflects on Threats After Council Vote
Fresh off a meeting with the person who threatened to kill him over his vote on a council resolution regarding violence in the Middle East, Santa Cruz Mayor, Fred Keeley talks about the necessity of being able to disagree without being disagreeable. While defending...
Santa Cruz Harp Festival
Each year, the Community Music School of Santa Cruz hosts the Santa Cruz Harp Festival, a celebration of this beautiful instrument. This year's festival includes Celtic, Classical and Improvisational music. In this interview, we hear from Executive Director, Susan...
Meet Teddy Grable – Doo Wop King of Mermaid & 24th Street
Doo-Wop music wasn't much of thing here on the West Coast as it was in NYC, places in New Jersey and Philadelphia. Closest thing out here were the Beach Boys tight harmonies. Doo-Wop music, in particular acapella is a spin-off of Gospel music, coming up from the...
Local Reporters Review 2023, Look Ahead
Five local reporters convened in KSQD to review the top stories and discuss the year ahead in the news. They are Stephen Baxter and Kara Meyberg Guzman of Santa Cruz Local, Dan Schmalz of Monterey County Weekly, and Wallace Baine of Lookout Santa Cruz. We hear about...
John Mulry, Future Urbanist, expounds on the potential for positive transformation of the urban landscape, and the chief obstacles
John Mulry is a local community builder, founder of the Future Urbanist Club, a local chapter of the national non-profit StrongTowns, a creative strategist by trade, and a devotee of trickster gods. He originally began his college education training to be an...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 7th: What is in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California’s Central Coast, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper
What is in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on the California Central Coast with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper Sustainability now! Sunday, January 7th, 2024, 5-6 PM Monterey Waterkeeper is part of a coalition of organizations seeking to reduce nitrate pollution in...