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.
HR 9495 Threat to Nonprofits
On November 21st, 2024, Congress passed the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, aka HR 9495. If signed into law, the bill would hand huge powers to the Trump...
Local Farm Worker Advocates Respond to Deportation Threat
The president-elect has threatened to deport millions of undocumented people, including farmworkers. What would that do to our food prices? What will it do to families where one parent is without...
Post-Election Reflection
This Talk of the Bay includes phone-in comments from listeners, and guests Erik Nelson, host, What a Week, KSQD, and Adam Spickler, a Cabrillo College Trustee and political observer.
Reflections on this American moment: Who will we be after this election?
Whether you call it autocracy, fascism, or simply the egregious ambition to seize national power for the benefit of the few, our American founders saw the possibility of this political moment...
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.