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.
UCSC Pitches in to Help Afghan Scholars, Journalists
In this interview, San Jose State Professor and UCSC gradate student in Feminist Studies, Halima Kazem, discusses her work getting scholars and journalists out of Afghanistan. Kazem, born in Kabul,...
Saving our Groundwater: Two UCSC Professors Weigh In
In this episode of Talk of the Bay, I interview two UCSC researchers, Andrew Fisher and Ruth Langridge. Their focus is on groundwater and how to recharge it to better manage this resource for city...
CZU Fire Victims: One year later, moving from disaster to hope
Approximately 911 homes in Santa Cruz County were burned a year ago in the CZU Complex, ignited on August 16th by lightning and officially contained 6 days later. At last count, 259 properties were...
Housing of Violent Sexual Predator Opposed by Locals
This is the letter that County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty sent to Bonny Doon residents, alerting them to plans to place Michael Cheek, who stalked and raped a woman at gunpoint, in a local residence...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
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.