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.
Welcoming asylum seekers
Over the past year and a half, The Welcoming Network, a group of local neighbors, has developed a network of Santa Cruz neighbors, folks in faith communities and local community organizations to...
Former Mayor Bruce Van Allen on housing and homelessness, policing, and our future
Host Len Beyea interviews local activist, software developer, Board of Education Trustee, and former Santa Cruz Mayor Bruce Van Allen. The conversation covers an effort to establish an alternative...
Rachel Kippen of O’Neill Sea Odyssey on ocean health, coastal access, plastics, hands-on education, and the nexus of social and ecological crises
Rachel Kippen is a coastal environmental advocate, nonprofit professional, and artist. She has over 15 years’ experience in environmental programming at such organizations as the California Academy...
Behind the Mic: Joe Truskot
On Talk of the Bay, April 5, 2021, Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with DJ and Host, Joe Truskot KSQD is community radio and what makes it distinctive is its varied local voices--whether...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, March 10 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.