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.
Saving Watsonville Hospital and creating the new Pajaro Valley Healthcare District
The for-profit corporate owner of Watsonville Hospital announced in 2021 that they would have to sell the hospital or file for bankruptcy. Host Len Beyea interviews Mimi Hall of the Pajaro...
Lindsay Owens on public perceptions of corporate greed, economics, and housing – and the real story
Lindsay Owens is the Executive Director of the Groundwork Collaborative. Lindsay has worked in academia, government, and the non-profit sector for nearly 15 years. Most recently, she served...
James Houston and Diane Cooley on Santa Cruz History
In this excerpt from my documentary "The Boomtown Chronicles: The Changing Face of California" we hear stories from James Houston, J.S. Holliday, and Diane Porter Cooley, all of them gone now, but...
Librarian on Book Banning and Free Speech
Collection Services Manager, Sarah Harbison of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries takes free speech seriously. In this interview, she comments on recent efforts to ban books and the role libraries have...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, December 23 6:00am
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.