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.
Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love – Shepherd Siegel on the role of the trickster in history
Dr. Shepherd Siegel, a descendant of oil barons and bootleggers, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the midst of that whole utopian sixties thing. He was a rock and jazz musician, then...
CORE: The New Dynamics of Funding Nonprofits in Santa Cruz
On Talk of the Bay, Monday, June 27, 2022 Christine Barrington and Talk of the Bay Co-Host Suki Wessling explore the impact of the County’s new funding model for awarding non-profit grants across...
Is California really ready to expand abortion services? Panel discussion.
Host Suki Wessling moderates a special Independence Day panel discussion about abortion and California's status as an Abortion Sanctuary State. Our panel includes Pam Conelly, Chief Operations...
From chemistry to health to what we believe: In conversation with Tim Johnstone
Join host Suki Wessling in conversation with Professor Timothy Johnstone of UC Santa Cruz. Tim runs The Johnstone Laboratory: Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Research Group, which is a mouthful. But...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, April 10 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.