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.
Santa Cruz Rail and Trail Update
In this segment of Talk of the Bay, Rachel Anne Goodman talks with Sally Arnold, board chair of Friends of the Rail and Trail, a nonprofit advocating for public use of the recently acquired rail...
Honoring and Protecting Earth Life: Two Voices, Two Paths
All of us living upon this Earth have had our lives increased by the actions of those who have asked themselves, "What can I do?" and then answered that question with action. On Talk of the Bay,...
Are you ready to foster or adopt a cat or dog?
On Talk of the Bay, Annette Hogue of Four Paws to Love joins host Suki Wessling to talk about our local pet adoption ecosystem. Four Paws finds loving families to foster, and then searches for each...
Preparing for Fire Season: Fire Safe Santa Cruz and The Resource Conservation District
On Talk of the Bay June 23, 2020, Christine Barrington interviews two local advocates for wildfire preparedness: Liz Anne Jensen of the Santa Cruz Fire Safe Council Executive Committee and Angie...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, January 23 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.