Local News from KSQD
From Emaciated to Emancipated: The Story of a Skinny Mango
In this interview, we talk with minister and author, Ryan "Mango" Althaus about his new book about his struggles with an eating disorder. These struggles are often associated with young women, but his story shows anyone can suffer from eating disorders. His book, From...
Unheard Voices with Marissa Molina
On Friday July 23rd, 2021 host Thairie Ritchie welcomed Marissa Molina, a local activist and artist. They discussed her community work, along with current events and how they affect us all. Unheard Voices is a weekly program that aims to create dialogue and raise...
Cabrillo Festival Makes the Remote Personal
On Talk of the Bay, Ellen Primack, Executive Director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, joins host Suki Wessling to talk about the challenges of pandemic-era music programming and the amazing work that was done to bring together this year’s virtual...
What’s New at the SC Farmers Markets?
Santa Cruz County is lucky enough to have many thriving farmers markets from Aptos to Scotts Valley. I talked with Nesh Dhillon, farmers market manager for five of those markets, about what's new, what's fresh, and how over twenty years he has learned a lot about...
Behind the Mic: David Bean
On Monday, July 12, 2021 Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with David Bean, DJ for Thursday's New Squid In Town. KSQD is community radio---whether it’s music or talk, much of the programming streaming your way on 90.7 FM is created by community volunteers...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 11th, 5-6 PM: Give Me Land, Lots of Land in the Santa Clara Valley with Andrea Mackenzie of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Host Ronnie Lipschutz speaks with Andrea Mackenzie, General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. For more than 25 years, Ms. Mackenzie has worked in the fields of land use planning, conservation planning, public policy, and finance for open space...
Housing the Homeless-An Interview with Phil Kramer of Housing Matters
The nonprofit Housing Matters is getting ready to build 120 units of low-income housing for people currently living on the streets who are most at risk of dying as a result. In this wide-ranging conversation about homelessness and income inequality, Phil Kramer talks...
Lions in our Midst-The Santa Cruz Puma Project
When the human world was put in a time-out by the covid lockdown last year, an elusive predator came out of the woods to walk around in our cities; The cougar, a.k.a. puma, wildcat, mountain lion, etc. is afraid of humans, especially human noise and activity. When...
The CA Green New Deal with Ben Eichert
On July 8 Pauline Seales interviewed Ben Eichert of the Romero Institute. The first topic was the scary current science warning - that we may reach 1.5 C of global warming before 2030 - decades sooner than previously predicted and horribly evident through the...
Action for Climate Empowerment – really thinking globally, while acting locally
In this episode of Talk of the Bay, host Len Beyea interviews Nancy Glock-Greunich and Emily Coren, two local ACE leaders, about Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). Action for Climate Empowerment is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on...