Local News from KSQD
Raina Chelisse – Love Letter to Cabrillo College
Raina Chelisse writes a love letter to Cabrillo.
All work and no play leads to less learning!
Host Suki Wessling interviews Rebecca London, Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, and Mariah Roberts, Executive Director of County Park Friends, Santa Cruz, about the importance of play and unstructured time to health, happiness, and above all, educational...
River Front Project – Massive New Building
Gillian Greensite and Ed Porter discuss with host Mathilde Rand building in Santa Cruz, in particular the River Front Project, which they opposed due to the height and the shortfall in affordable housing.
KSQD’s Immigration Collaboration with Watsonville and Santa Cruz Public Libraries
KSQD is partnering with the Watsonville and Santa Cruz Public Libraries to celebrate local immigration and identity stories The Izumizaki Family in Watsonville's strawberry fields. They had recently arrived from Japan. Kay Izumizaki (far right) is interviewed in the...
Rural Residents Face Internet Blackout
In this show, we take up the subject of rural internet service. Many rural residents in the Santa Cruz mountains face losing their internet access. Guests will talk about possible solutions to this dilemma and whether internet service should be treated as a utility...
Unheard Voices with Abbi Samuels
On Friday, May 28th, 2021 host Thairie Ritchie welcomed Abbi Samuels. Unheard Voices is a derivative of the new Civil Rights Movement Black Lives Matter. This program is inclusive of all people of the colors of the Rainbow. We hold the vision that change begins in the...
Downtown Santa Cruz Opens up to Summer
As Santa Cruz opens back up, what's happening in our most active tourist and local shopping district? Santa Cruz Downtown Association Executive Director Jorian Wilkins joins Talk of the Bay host Suki Wessling to talk about downtown. What was the last year like? What...
Unheard Voices with Ami Chen Mills-Naim
On Friday, May 21, 2021 host Ami Chen Mills-Naim welcomed 4 guests, including Gerry Low-Sabado, whose ancestors lived in the Pacific Grove Chinese fishing village that burned down; a former President for the Feast; and younger activists who say current changes are not...
Panel discussion: The real people affected by anti-transgender care laws
Around the country, conservative lawmakers are rushing to enact laws restricting the rights of parents, doctors, and transgender teenagers to pursue treatments that are well-studied, safe, and proven to save the lives of very vulnerable transgender children and teens....
Cabrillo Students Debate College Name Change Part 2
Since last July, the Cabrillo College community of faculty, staff, students, and trustees have been engaged in a dialogue about whether or how to change the college's name. In this broadcast, students in my Cabrillo College broadcast journalism class host a debate on...