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.
The TRUE story of Santa Cruz Rail & Trail
This KSQD radio series of 4 episodes explores the real story with the real people who made the Santa Cruz County rail & trail project happen. With just a germ of an idea, County employees, elected officials, nonprofits, and volunteers slogged through years of opposition by an extreme minority of landowners to keep the project on the rails (so to speak!). Supported by housing equity advocates, environmentalists, cycling enthusiasts, and commuters alike, the project has been continually stalled and threatened by the actions of a select few.
Omer Bartov, world-renowned expert on genocide, on politics in Israel and strategies for peace in the Middle East
Omer Bartov was born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. His early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it...
Martin Rizzo-Martinez unfolds the history of the Native people who sustained and survived Mission Santa Cruz
Martin Rizzo-Martinez is a historian and a producer of film, podcast, and other media content. After completing his PhD at UC Santa Cruz in 2016, he became a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral...
Lawsuit against Aptos Highway 1 Expansion
While the Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission celebrates the groundbreaking of the Highway 1 auxiliary lane, bus on shoulder, and Mar Vista bike and pedestrian overcrossing, a lawsuit has...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
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.