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This episode opens with Bruce Springsteen in Manchester, England, speaking about the Trump Administration, and then we dive into an interview with Indy Rishi Singh, championing a “doughnut economics” model in San Jose, California, and throughout the state, with the California Doughnut Economics Coalition (CALDEC). Doughnut Economics is the brain child of Kate Raworth, an […]

What’s the Matter with California’s Electricity System? with Loretta Lynch On Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 8th, 5-6 PM Everyone is angry with California’s private utilities. Rates keep rising, the utilities lack accountability and they are running roughshod over small-scale renewable energy. Why make your customers so mad? Is that anger justified? And what are the utilities […]

2025 marks Kuumbwa Jazz club’s 50th anniversary. UCSC Humanities intern, Maury Burnett-Cavoto shares this interview with founder, Tim Jackson.

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Why are worker-to-worker campaigns winning against big companies like Amazon, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and more? To find out, Moment of Truth host Meilin Obinata interviewed Professor Eric Blanc, author of “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big” to learn why unions are one of the best weapons against the […]

Garden books forever! Join Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot for a lively discussion of the most important garden books in their lives spent with plants. 9 to 10 a.m., May 31, 2025, on In The Garden. The program was recorded on August 5, 2023.

This month on The Sunday Dinner we serve up a heaping helping of labor solidarity! In the wake of another wave of layoffs and sweeping budget cuts in the University of California system, student services and advising staff have come together to form SSAP-UAW! Listen in as we take our first bites into what will […]

Episode 79: Guest host Patrice Vecchione leads a heartfelt conversation with three vibrant elders—Barbara Stark, Alice Tao, and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts—about how they’ve embraced aging with purpose and adaptability. Plus senior care specialist Ruth Nickens offers practical insights from her 40-year career. Whether you’re 25 or 95, this rich discussion will reshape how you think about aging.

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The Return of Wolves to California with Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 25th Gray wolves were once ubiquitous across California but the state’s last surviving individual was killed in 1924. In 2011, the first documented wolf since 1924 was observed crossing into California from Oregon. Today, there are at least […]

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Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to [email protected] Scams of the week! Topics covered: Trump terminates Digital Equity Act, Meta AIChatbox inappropriate with minors, CamelCamelCamel Tariffs, Live callers, Email questions and more!

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to [email protected] Scams of the week! Topics covered: Internet Archive, Musk’s Chatbot GrokAI refuses MAGA training, Bluetooth Pranks, Facebook targeted ads to teens who delete selfies, Email questions and more!

Thursday on Talk of the Bay at 5:30pm: If you missed October’s Open Studios, May brings you another chance to experience and enjoy the exceptional art of our region with the San Lorenzo Valley Art Tour! May 17 & 18 will launch the 4th annual San Lorenzo Valley Art Tour featuring dozens of artists from […]

Episode 78: More men are embracing therapy and challenging old stigmas. In this remixed episode, Guest Host Lisa Herendeen, LMFT talks with Joey Fino, Mark Vanderhoof, and psychotherapist Tim Hartnett, PhD about how therapy can transform men’s lives. We’ve also added a powerful “In Your Voice” story, reflecting on how therapy supported Daniel’s journey from adolescence to adulthood. Tune in for a compelling conversation on healing, connection, and emotional growth.

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This month we kiki and gag over the upcoming 3rd annual Mother Earth Drag Extravaganza which took place on April 26th at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center! delfin bautista {lower case on purpose like bell hooks} Director of the Lionel Cantu Queer Center at UC Santa Cruz gives us insight on this collaborative effort, and […]

Are Tariffs Good for the Environment? Bad? Or What? With Ronnie Lipschutz & Christine Barrington Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 27th, 2025, 5-6 PM Tariffs are in the air and on the news. Tariffs are up and down. Tariffs are in and out. Who knows where they might go and what they might do. But what […]

The Moment of Truth program and KSQD were on the scene for the Bernie Sanders’ “Fight the Oligarchy” 2025 tour in Folsom, CA. Ami Chen Mills is joined by Denise Elerick, co-chair of the Mid-County Democrats and founder of the Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County, who also traveled to Folsom for this event […]

Monday on Talk of the Bay Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with Rick Kleffel host of Friday’s Narrative Species, a show that features writers whose works of fiction and non-fiction shape our world. After more than 2,000 shows spanning decades, Rick has hosted Pulitzer and Booker prize winners, as well as some of the […]

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Ellen Baker and Freddy Menge discuss the avocados they grow at Epicenter Avocado Nursery in La Selva, California, south of Santa Cruz. They appeared on KSQD;’s weekly garden show “In The Garden” with Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot, 9 to 10 a.m., March 29, 2025

Mushrooms Rebroadcast featuring Veleny Pierce on KSQD’s In The Garden with Steven E. Popp and me. Learn about this incredibly useful organism from a pro, 9 to 10 a.m., Saturday, February 3, 2024 on 90.7 – 89.7 – 89.5 FM and ksqd.org. Originally aired on Saturday, January 6, 2023.

In this special, more personal program, Ami Chen Mills interviews her colleague, author and psychologist Dr. George Pranksy–who, with her late father, Dr. Roger Mills–helped to bring an “innate mental health” psychology, based on the spiritual insights of a ninth-grade educated welder living in British Columbia, Canada to the field and to the world. Dr. […]

Bestselling author of Palo Alto Malcom Harris is just now releasing his new book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. This joint program for the Moment of Truth show and Talk of the Bay features Harris in conversation with Meilin Obinata, roughly six months after Obinata interviewed him for Moment of Truth about […]

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to [email protected] Topics covered: Tech tips and tricks, Windows 10 end of life, Instagram EDITS, Email questions and more!

Monday on Talk of the Bay, Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with the hosts of the creative and evisceratingly funny political romp, What a Week! Every Saturday at 11am Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno take on the local and national headlines piercing through the ridiculous, the dangerous, and sometimes downright hilarious reality we now […]

Impressions on a recent First Friday art walk in Santa Cruz, by Maury Burnett-Cavoto.

Titans of Industrial Agriculture How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters With Professor Jennifer Clapp Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 13th, 5-6 PM Big agriculture is Big! And it appears to be getting Bigger, as the leading companies in four critical sectors—equipment, seeds, fertilizers and chemicals—consolidate in […]

Santa Cruz County Public Defender Heather Rogers joins guest host Joy Schendledecker for a far-ranging conversation about the rise of holistic defense and the ongoing criminalization of homelessness in Santa Cruz and beyond. Aired on Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills — March 17, 2025 Joy and Heather explore how local and national policies under the Trump […]

Guest host Meilin Obinata and local activist Reggie Meisler speak with Dr. Anita Say Chan, a professor at the University of Urbana-Champaign who recently published Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future, the first book to draw a direct line between the data-fication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists […]

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Episode 77: Awe isn’t just a beautiful emotion—it’s a powerful tool for well-being. Research shows it can reduce stress, ease anxiety, lift mood, and even relieve chronic pain. Host Debra Sloss is joined by Dr. Michael Amster, co-author of The Power of Awe, and Jaime Garcia to explore how awe regulates the nervous system, enhances mental health, and simple ways to cultivate it in just one minute a day.

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In this episode of The Cutting edge with Tim Fitzmaurice we hear from Jaime Sanchez about his breakthrough first solo exhibit at Watsonville Arts Center on Main street and how art is necessary to creating a just society.

Let the Salmon Swim Freely–The Klamath Dam Removal Project with Brook Thompson Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 30th, 2025, 5-6 PM Until very recently, salmon and other fish attempting to spawn in Northern California’s Klamath River found a number of dams in their way. Over the past several years, in the largest project of its kind […]

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Sarah Rabkin remembers that quiet thing that changed history.

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Where do you go in this day and age if you are trans or queer where you will be accepted and not harassed? SubRosa, that’s where. UCSC intern Maury Burnette-Cavoto takes us there for this portrait of an anarchist event space in Santa Cruz. From their website: SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by […]

Fire, Fire at Moss Landing! Why the batteries burned and what that means on Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 16th, 5-6PM On January 16th, 2025, a fire broke out at the Vistra plant in Moss Landing, California burning for two days and scattering heavy metals and other toxic materials across the plant’s surroundings, including Elkhorn Slough. […]

In a special joint radio program, Ami Chen Mills joins Luigi Oppido, host of “The Computer Man” show to discuss the massive breaches of security at the Treasury Department and multiple, other federal departments by Elon Musk and his DOGDY team of apparently virulently racist youngsters–and how to protect our information, if we still can. […]

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The 2025 race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is shaping up to set national records for campaign spending and will determine the ideological control of the court for at least a year with national implications. As the political landscape continues to shift under the landslide of actions taken by the Trump administration, […]

Migrants and immigrants from Mexico comprise the bulk of all migration to the US, roughly 30 percent of all people who seek to cross US borders for employment and opportunities for themselves and their families. Why do they come and when did this “mass migration” start? What are its root causes? Dr. Ann López, is […]

Food Apartheid and Food Hubs A Visit with Saba Grocers and co-founder Lina Ghanem Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 2nd,2025, 5-6 PM Food insecurity and food apartheid are a common challenge in many low-income and minority neighborhoods across the United States. Big supermarket companies avoid those areas because stores are unprofitable and small stores find that […]

American Environmentalism, Then and Now (1965-2025) With Mark Dowie Sustainability Now! Sunday, February 16, 2025, 5-6 PM Mark Dowie describes himself as “Cowhand, guitarist, investigative historian, poet” and journalist. He’s probably best known as cofounder, editor and staff writer for Mother Jones, but during his more than 50-year career, over his he’s also written for […]

Episode 76: Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) allows terminally ill, mentally capable adults to self-ingest prescribed medication to pass peacefully on their own terms. As the Baby Boomer generation ages, end-of-life choices are more relevant than ever. Psychotherapist and host Debra Sloss is joined by Dr. Lisa Segnitz, a palliative care physician, Kim Stokely, who supported her sister through MAID, and Neil Vargas-Gladen, a chaplain offering spiritual insights. Together, they explore MAID’s ethical, medical, mental health and emotional dimensions.