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.
Schooling at home? Educator Heddi Craft advises parents and teachers on educating through quarantine
This week, host Suki Wessling speaks with local educator and homeschooler Heddi Craft about what homeschooling looks like in typical local families, and how "school at home" during a quarantine may...
Local author Mary Flodin on her novel Fruit of the Devil, education, pesticides, and more
Mary Flodin's novel, Fruit of the Devil, was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Writers' Competition and the PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. She was awarded a fellowship to the...
Biologist Lee Klinger on curing tree diseases, indigenous use of fire for land management, and fire mimicry
Lee Klinger, MA, PhD, is an independent scientist living in Big Sur, California. Since 2005 he has served as director of Sudden Oak Life, a movement based on using traditional ecological techniques...
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo on Covid-19 response
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo discusses the 2-trillion dollar federal stimulus package and other related items.
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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.