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.
Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley
Fred Keeley talks about new height limits on large housing developments and the repairs or changes to West Cliff Drive, plus Brown Act violations from the mayors select committee.
Tiffany Wise-West illuminates the Santa Cruz City Climate Action Plan
Dr. Tiffany Wise-West is the Sustainability and Climate Action Manager at the City of Santa Cruz, California. She is a licensed professional civil engineer with over 25 years of experience in...
Women at the center of Santa Cruz’s early winemaking industry
The Santa Cruz Mountains American Viticultural Area (AVA) stretches along the mountains, the only AVA in the US to be defined by terrain rather than geographical boundaries. Before there was an AVA...
Maurice Carney on the most important nation in Africa that you might know nothing about
Almost all of us carry a piece of the Congo with us - in our smart phones, tablets, or laptops. Yet very few of us know how that piece came to be in our pockets, the human cost of its...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, May 6 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.