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.
SBDC Director Brandon Napoli talks business—local business!
On Talk of the Bay, hosts Brad Kava and Suki Wessling interview Brandon Napoli, the new director of the Small Business Development Center of Santa Cruz. The SBDC gives free services to local small...
UCSC’s Grad Student COLA Movement
This is a news piece produced by Cabrillo intern, Caroline King about the recent strike activity at UC Santa Cruz by graduate students in search of a living wage.
Gary Nabhan: Food from the Radical Center
Gary Paul Nabhan (born 1952) is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural...
How can early music education help your child’s brain? An interview with Lizz Hodgin Weihrauch
Join hosts Suki Wessling and Brad Kava in a wide-ranging discussion about music, early childhood education, brain development, giving up professional theater for local theater, and the evils of...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
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.