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Squid on the Street: What Will You Remember from this Pandemic?
Our Squid on the Street asks: What memories will stick with you from this pandemic? Here's what folks had to say...
Cabrillo Students on Changing Pandemic Rules
As the pandemic wears on it's easy to think it's over. The changing mask rules combined with a desire to "get back to normal" has created an odd mixture of behaviors and expectations when going out in public. In this program, students in my Cabrillo College Journalism...
Queer Youth Leadership Awardees
Guest on Talk of the Bay were the following students who are nominees or awardees for the Queer Youth Leadership Awards, now in their 25th year. At a time when politicians have introduced over 200 bills that would restrict LGBTQIA rights, these young leaders are...
Nourishing Generations is a task that never ends
Host Suki Wessling explores the world of educational nonprofits with Karen Haralson and Nancy Birang of Nourishing Generations, which runs after school programs in nutrition and cooking in our local schools. We discuss their program and how it works, but then move on...
Wings Homeless Project Offers Hope
Santa Cruz has many organizations working to help the homeless. WINGS is one such program that seeks to help people get the proper documents they need to navigate the red tape involved in getting housing. They also provide beds, cleaning supplies and other appliances...
“Mini-Brains” Give UCSC Researchers Insight
Lucille Tepperman is a student at Cabrillo College. This is a short feature she produced about UCSC's Genomics lab creating small organelles made of stem cells in order to better understand brain development. New Research at the Genomics Institute Host Intro : At the...
Stay or Flee? Who Pays for Sea Level Rise?
As sea levels rise due to climate change, city planners and oceanographers are often called upon to make suggestions as to how to cope with advancing erosion. The big questions are who will pay for it and how long insurance companies will keep insuring these homes in...
Goats Reduce Fire Risk at UCSC
McKenzie Prillaman went to UCSC and has this story: Narrator: California’s wildfire season grows worse every year, forcing landowners and institutions to come up with creative ways to prevent fires. At UC Santa Cruz, they’re trying a new approach… goats. ...
Housing Development and Small Units in Santa Cruz
Lira Filippini, Candace Brown and Gillian Greensite join host Mathilde Rand in a conversation about small unit proposals in Santa Cruz. They make sense of the alphabet soup related to housing: SRO, SOU, FDU and RHNA and discuss the impacts of each of them.
Behind the Mic with Bill and Noreen of Jazz Tracks
On Talk of the Bay Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with Noreen Nolan and Bill Van Bloom, co-hosts of Jazz Tracks every 2nd Thursday of the month. The Behind the Mic series at KSQD reveals and celebrates the community behind our community radio station. Noreen...