Talk of the Bay
Talk of the Bay is committed to covering political, social, and cultural topics from around the Monterey Bay. We focus on current events and people making news locally (from the central coast to Sacramento). We also consider national and international issues, their impact on the central coast, and local responses. We tackle perennial topics like housing, homelessness, transportation, education, and more from a new angle.
Santa Cruz County’s “Not My President” Day Protest
On February 17th, thousands of people around the country expressed their anger and disgust with Elon Musk and Donald Trump's lawless actions. In Santa Cruz over 1000 people came out in force. The...
Superintendent Faris Sabbah on U.S. Department of Ed. Cuts
With Trump threatening to eliminate the Department of Education, we take a deep dive into what it does, what would happen to local schools and programs if it was cut, and how local schools are...
Talk of the Bay Today: Meet Omar Dieguez, 2/10/25 @ 5PM
Coming up on today's Talk of the Bay on February the 10th, at 5PM, your host Meilin Obinata will introduce you to Omar Dieguez. You might have met Omar around town but here’s your chance to really...
Navigating Uncertainty: Nonprofits, Politics, and the Road Ahead – Talk of the Bay
On KSQD's Talk of the Bay, Host PK Hattis speaks with Community Bridges' CEO Ray Cancino. Like so many nonprofits across the country, Community Bridges and Cancino were caught up in a world of chaos...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, May 15 5:00pm
HOSTED BY

Rachel Anne Goodman
Since 1980, Rachel has hosted radio shows on public stations around the U.S. where she interviewed many amazing figures. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, A Labor of Love: Midwifery in the South, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. Ms. Goodman has a Peabody award for her work on The DNA Files for NPR. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College
in Aptos and at UC Santa Cruz.