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.
Farmworker health during covid pandemic
This feature was produced by UCSC Science Communications intern, Jesse Kathan. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Transcript [background conversation in Spanish] The temperature is in the eighties on a...
Memorial Day Special: Local veterans’ advocates praise our community and ask for compassion and action
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling speaks with local veterans' advocates Travis Deyoung and Dean Kaufman about the meaning of Memorial Day, the experiences of veterans in our county, and what we...
Environmental and Societal Impacts of the Proposed Garage/Library Structure–A Deeper Dive
On Talk of the Bay, Tuesday, May 26, Christine Barrington revisits the Santa Cruz city proposal for building a new composite structure of: Parking Garage, new library, and housing on the present...
Mount Madonna students interview DC leaders
On this Talk of the Bay interview, Mount Madonna School students Noah Tervalon and Tabitha Hardin-Zollo talk about their experiences interviewing leaders in Washington, D.C. including West Virginia...
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.