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Joy Schendledecker shares her priorities and perspectives in her campaign to be the next Mayor of Santa Cruz
Joy Schendledecker is running for Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz. Joy lives in Santa Cruz, working as a mom, artist, and community organizer. Joy is a member of the Working Families Party and Democratic Socialists of America, and serves on the organizing...
Greg Cotten on the proposed open pit mine at Sargent Ranch – a disaster for the environment and the cultural survival of the Amah Mutsun
Greg Cotten is the founding member of Friends of Juristac. Juristac is the local indigenous sacred landscape that is threatened by a sand mine. Greg is of European descent and has been working closely in Solidarity with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for the last...
Wallace Baine and Geoffrey Dunn on Chronicling Our Community Part 2
For the past decades, two writers have documented the many stories and people who occupy this vibrant stretch of California coastline we call home. In part two of this interview, Wallace Baine and Geoffrey Dunn discuss the changing face of our town, and the various...
Wallace Baine and Geoffrey Dunn on Chronicling Our Community Part 1
For the past decades, two writers have documented the many stories and people who occupy this vibrant stretch of California coastline we call home. In part one of this interview, Wallace Baine and Geoffrey Dunn discuss the changing face of our town, and the various...
Steve Pleich – Public Banking
Steve Pleich talks about Public Banking.
Artists for Artists: Relief Aid for Santa Cruz Creatives Funded Through Art and Heart
On Talk of the Bay, Monday, September 5 at 5pm, Christine Barrington welcomes Longtime Mixed Media Artist Sara Friedlander about collaborative efforts to grow the Santa Cruz Artists Assistance and Relief Fund (SCAARF), started in 2008 in answer to the critically...
The reality of abortion and religion is nuanced
Join hosts Suki Wessling and Christine Barrington for a special conversation about religious views of abortion. Although in heated political debates it may seem that abortion pits religious people against secular people, the truth is much more nuanced. Joining us to discuss this important and difficult issue are Rabbi Paula Marcus of Temple Beth El, the Reverend David Pattee of Peace United Church of Christ, and the Reverend Terra Collier-Young, a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister.
Cat & Cloud is about much more than a good cup o’ joe
What does it mean to create a business based on values that seem to have little to do with the product being sold? Cat & Cloud Coffee co-owner Jared Truby visited Talk of the Bay to speak on that subject. Cat & Cloud is an up-and-coming coffee company because...
Talk of the Bay with Ami Chen Mills – Homeless Update
Ami Chen Mills welcomes Evan Morrison, Executive Director of The Free Guide, Santa Cruz's newest homeless services agency, and 2 other guests working with the homeless. The city has contracted The Free Guide to run a new safe-parking program. Evan has worked...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 21st: Well, Well, Well! Clean Water for Everyone, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper
Well, Well, Well! Clean Water for Everyone! with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper On Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 21st, 5-6 PM, on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Chelsea Tu, the new executive director of a new...