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.
Prepare for Fire Season: Now is the Time
On Talk of the Bay, March 22, 2021 Christine Barrington revisits a previous interview with Liz Anne Jensen from the Fire Safe Santa Cruz County Executive Committee. Fire Season is ongoing for our...
Getting vaccinated
I recently went to the UCSC vaccination clinic and recorded myself getting a vaccine. Spoiler alert: I didn't cry.Find out how it all works and how much time it really takes to get a shot at one of...
Facebook Launches new Covid Vaccination Initiative
In this interview with Laura Gorman, Manager of Facebook's "Data for Good" program, she talks about a new initiative to help connect users of the platform with factual information as well as...
Sea Otters Prevent Kelp Deforestation
A new study out of UCSC shows that sea otters are preventing further collapse of a threatened ecosystem: The kelp forests in Monterey Bay. Elsewhere in California, the story is not so rosy with 95%...
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.