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.
Teen Inventor Creates Heat Triggered Fire Extinguisher
Just in time for fire season, a high school student, Arul Mathur has invented a heat-sensitive fire extinguisher that operates without you having to be there. As impressive as his invention, Arul...
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,...
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...
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...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, July 18 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.