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.
Taking Heart as Roe V Wade Falters with Bettina Aptheker
On Talk of the Bay, June 13, 2022 Christine Barrington interviews UCSC Distinguished Professor Emerita Bettina Aptheker to solicit her insights on the rapidly deteriorating right to choose in the...
Alan Fisher – the Armchair Urbanist on walkable cities, the disaster of autocentrism, transit, and planning sustainable cities
Alan Fisher grew up in Southern New Jersey, eventually moving to New Brunswick, NJ for college at Rutgers University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. While living in New Brunswick he...
January 6th Hearings and Election analysis with Tony Russomanno
Initial takes on the first moments of the historic January 6th Committee hearings, plus analysis of the primary elections in California and locally.
Amateur Fossil Hunters are Big Contributors to Science
Host: People here in Santa Cruz are part of a growing field called community or citizen science. For the region’s amateur fossil collectors, their finds might just help paleontologists figure out...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, April 24 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.