Local News from KSQD
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...
Bahia Brunelle – Invincible Summer
Bahia Brunelle taps into her invincible summer.
The Life-Changing Magic of Unionizing: A Deep Dive with the National President of Trader Joe’s United, Jamie Edwards
Happy New Year's Day! For this show, Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills, we're joined this time with guest host, Meilin Obinata. We’re discussing the life-changing magic of union organizing with the national president of Trader Joe’s United, Jamie Edwards. We’re...
Rodrigo Camarena of Justicia Lab sheds light on the biggest property crime in America: Wage Theft
As Director at Justicia Lab and Immigration Advocates Network, Rodrigo Camarena has more than five years of experience in leading and managing nonprofit legal tech initiatives that aim to transform immigrant justice through collaboration, creativity, and...