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.
UCSC Student Helps Pass Menstrual Equity Bill
UCSC student Amanda Safi helped get a new California law passed that requires public schools to stock restrooms with free menstrual products—a move activists say is a first step toward rectifying...
The fentanyl epidemic viewed through different lenses
In the last year, fentanyl has claimed scores of lives in Santa Cruz County. Yet few locals understand the problem. The Santa Cruz drug scene has a reputation that encourages us to view this latest...
Russia History and Ukraine: Peter Kenez
Peter Kenez is a historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European history and politics. He was born in Hungary and is a Holocaust survivor. He also teaches courses on Soviet cinema and an...
Regenerating Pajaro Valley with Nancy Faulstich
In 2016, kindergarten teacher and mother Nancy Faulstich began feeling an increasing sense of urgency about the advance of the climate emergency. She felt she had to do something, so she founded...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, May 16 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.