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.
Neighbors Cry Foul Over Toxic Waste in Watsonville Development
Environmental injustice occurs when powerful developers locate toxic waste in poor neighborhoods. These populations often suffer from health issues from pollution already and are in less of a...
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...
Cabrillo Festival Makes the Remote Personal
On Talk of the Bay, Ellen Primack, Executive Director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, joins host Suki Wessling to talk about the challenges of pandemic-era music programming and the...
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,...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, April 3 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.