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.
Manu Koenig on Funding Homelessness Programs
County Supervisor, Manu Koenig was recently the lone dissenting voice on the Santa Cruz County board of supervisors when it came to approving an eight-million dollar contract for homeless services....
Mountain Community Theater Gets Creative During Covid
As covid shut down all live theater productions across the country, members of Mountain Community Theater of Ben Lomond didn't sit around twiddling their thumbs. They got right down to business...
Pandemic, childcare, health, employment—all issues are women’s issues
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling speaks with Theresa Cariño, Executive Director of Salud Y Cariño, and Jillian Ritter, an analyst for the Office of Supervisor Ryan Coonerty. Both women are...
Renaming Cabrillo College?
There is a proposal to rename Cabrillo College, based on issues raised by faculty and students about his legacy as a conquistador and his role in native genocide. In this program, we hear from...
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.