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.
Chat about local journalism and Hispanic representation with Claudia Melendez Salinas of Voices of Monterey Bay
Claudia Melendez Salinas, of the website Voices of Monterey Bay, speaks with hosts Brad Kava and Suki Wessling about the book American Dirt and local journalism for her upstart nonprofit news...
Backpack with a Naturalist
The California State Parks has a new program that offers participants a chance to hike with a trained naturalist interpreter from the park service in one of three locations in Santa Cruz County....
Protecting Your Right to Vote
Confused about the ballot or how to vote for president if you're a no party preference or independent voter? Wondering how secure Santa Cruz County's voter system is? We hear from Gail Pellerin, the...
Could we bring back the woolly mammoth? Should we?
Join Brad Kava and Suki Wessling in our conversation with Sabrina Shirazi and Molly Cassatt from the Paleogenomics Lab at UC Santa Cruz. In this fascinating, wide-ranging conversation we discuss...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, December 23 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.