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.
Nuclear Power and Our Clean Energy Future: Friend or Foe?
Does nuclear power have an important role to play in a clean energy future or is it a toxic demon to be avoided at all costs? On Talk of the Bay, Monday, November 29, Christine Barrington interviews...
UCSC Humanities connects using language, culture, and history
The Humanities Division of UC Santa Cruz has been hard at work on projects that connect what is happening up on the Hill with our local community. Host Suki Wessling talks to UCSC scholars...
Sibley Simon of New Way Homes on the housing crisis, affordability, infill, and innovative financing
Sibley Simon is a social entrepreneur, a co-founder of the 180/2020 Initiative to end veteran and chronic homelessness in Santa Cruz County, and a former award-winning technology innovator....
Allison Paradise of the Epicenter on empowering youth through awareness, wonderment, and exploration
The Epicenter empowers students ages 7 - 22 to connect with their authentic selves and their limitless potential. The experience of being empowered is transformative. It can lead to feelings...
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.