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This Thursday at 5pm on Talk of the Bay, Rachel Anne Goodman hosts a remembrance of radio and television pioneer, Jeremy Lansman, who was the founder (along with Laura Ellen Hopper and Don Mussell) of the infamous KFAT radio in Gilroy among other accomplishments. Lansman, who passed away on December 28th, was an engineer and […]

Maury Cavoto-Burnette is our squid on the street this month. She asks, “What is your take on the killing of the insurance CEO, and the health our nation’s healthcare system?

On this episode of “Talk of the Bay”, host Bodie Shargel dives into housing issues in Santa Cruz with Sibley Simon, a local housing advocate, founder of New Way Homes, and a partner at Workbench. The conversation stems from Simon’s participation at this past summer’s housing forum hosted by Lookout Santa Cruz and Housing Santa […]

Meet our new “Squid on the Street” UCSC Humanities  intern, Maury Burnette-Cavoto. She asks: “How long could you go without your cell phone?”. The answers may surprise you.

Santa Cruz Gives is the brainchild of Jeanne Howard former publisher of Good Times weekly. It’s a local crowdfunding site where people can support many local good deeds and projects in one spot. Guests are Karen Delaney and Leslie Lee of the Volunteer Center, one of the partners in Santa Cruz Gives. The conversation ranged […]

It’s time to give thanks to the folks who harvest our food. California’s farmworkers feed the world. KSQD presents excerpts from Rachel Anne Goodman’s Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farmworkers documentary series. Guided by host, Luis Valdez, we’ll hear the voices of immigrants from China, Japan, the Philipines, Mexico and more, telling this […]

Host PK Hattis is joined by the wonderfully talented and incisive local writer Manjula Martin. Martin is author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, as well as Fruit Trees for Every Garden, a book she coauthored alongside her father, the master orchardist and horticulturist Orin Martin, which won the 2020 American […]

Host Janet Quinn will be talking with Brian Sweeney, the Director of Operations for the Homeless Garden Project and Loren Schneider, the Social Enterprise and Value Added Retail manager. You’ll hear about their Winter program which creates artisan crafts and organic products grown from the garden. Their retail sales provide ongoing financial support. Learn about […]

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 administration to declare any nonprofit they dislike to be a “terrorist-supporting” organization and strip them of their nonprofit status without having to share […]

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 papers? We hear from immigration attorney, Blanca Zarazua from Salinas, and Dr. Ann Lopez from the Center for Farmworker Families, a charity that provides […]