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.
John Laird plus SC City Council Recall Petition
Our guest on Talk of the Bay is John Laird, former Natural Resources Secretary under Governor Jerry Brown, former Assemblymember for the then 27th district including Santa Cruz and Monterey...
Wildfire Prevention and Lights for Liberty
In this episode of Talk of the Bay, we explore how to prevent wildfires in the wildland-urban interface, a.k.a. the areas where town meets country. Our guest is Paul Horvat, president of Fire Safe...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, September 2 6:00am
HOSTED BY
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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.