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Youth Action Network gives young Santa Cruzans a voice
In the past, adults thought that if they just told teens what to do, teens would make better decisions. It didn't work. Now, adults who work with teens are flipping the model. Instead of talking, they're listening. Instead of acting without input, they're waiting to...
Steve Pleich – Budget and Taxation
Steve Pleich talks about budget and taxation.
Holistic women’s health grows in Santa Cruz
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling interviews Dana Ramsey, a nurse-midwife and holistic women's health practitioner, about women's health and fertility in Santa Cruz and beyond. Indicators of women's health in the United States show that we are well below the...
Danny Sheehan and Sara Nelson of The Romero Institute – centering survival around justice
Sara Nelson is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Romero Institute and former National Executive Director and co-founder of the Christic Institute. Daniel Sheehan is President and co-founder of the Romero Institute and former President and co-founder of the...
The Power of Place with Linda Mastrangelo
I celebrate my first in-person episode of the Dream Journal with my dear friend Linda Mastrangelo. Linda was also one of my first guests from June of 2019 when this show was just a baby, and her first show was the first ever that I released as a podcast. Today in a...
Unheard Voices with Elisha Christopher
On Friday, August 6 at 3pm, the Revered Elisha Christopher from the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Cruz spoke with Ami Chen about his childhood, growing up gay in a conservative Baptist community in Southern California, and his personal struggles with mental...
Independent Study Rule Changes Affect Local Families
When legislators make what seem like helpful changes to education law, there are often downstream effects. This summer, the state has been debating AB130, which would make alterations to the part of the education code called Independent Study (IS) as a reaction to...
Unheard Voices with Bella Bonner
On Friday July 30th, 2021 host Thairie Ritchie welcomed Bella Bonner (founder of Black Surf Club Santa Cruz and Member of Blended Bridge). Unheard Voices is a weekly program that aims to create dialogue and raise awareness in the community at large. Each show is...
Locals Lisa Swarz and Batya Kagan share their experiences protesting the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota
Tribal nations, community and environmental groups in Minnesota have fought for six years to stop Canadian oil giant Enbridge Energy from building the massive Line 3 pipeline in Northern Minnesota, to take oil from Canada’s tar sands region to Superior, Wis. The...
Cotoni-Coast Dairies – a new National Monument on Santa Cruz’s north coast prepares to open
Cotoni-Coast Dairies is an area of 5,780 acres (9 sq miles) located on Santa Cruz County’s coast north of Davenport. It was designated a national monument in 2017, and is the largest unit in the California Coastal National Monument. Just last month, the Bureau of Land...