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.
A blast from our educational past: two new principal/superintendents lead one-school districts
What does it take to run a one-school district? In Santa Cruz County, we have three of these little hold-outs from a simpler time and two of them have brand-new principal/superintendents. Host Suki...
Prison Abolition and Art at UCSC
In this interview, I speak with Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson about this new grant and what it will accomplish. Rachel Nelson, PhD, is director of UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences...
Solidarity Economics: An interview with Chris Benner
In this interview, I speak with professor Chris Benner about a new book he co-authored with Manuel Pastor. Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to...
Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute on navigating the transition away from fossil fuels
Richard Heinberg is a Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He...
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.