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.
Save Our Shores Reaches Out to the Community
Local organization Save Our Shores was formed as a grassroots effort to oppose offshore oil drilling in 1978, and their work became unexpectedly topical with the Southern California Huntington Beach...
Santa Cruz is Still in the Heart: Author-Historian Geoffrey Dunn
In this episode, I talk with author and historian, Geoffrey Dunn about his family's history, the evolution of journalism locally, and the earthquake, among other things. Geoffrey Dunn is an...
Natasha Erskine of About Face / Veterans Against War on the scars of war, corruption, militarism, and failed foreign policies
Natasha Erskine is the Organizing Director of About Face: Veterans Against War. Natasha is a US Air Force combat Veteran who served 20 years on active duty. She brings a myriad of organizing and...
K-Squid Jingle Contest Results
A big K-Squid thank you to everyone who entered our K-Squid Jingle Contest. Runners up will receive a KSQD bumper decal, and our winners will get a hat or shirt. Everyone is a winner at KSQD because...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, April 10 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.