KZYX Public Affairs

April 20, 2022--Join hosts Bob Laughton, Jim Heid and Toby Malina every other Wednesday at 7pm for Point and Click Radio, with the latest computer news and time for your calls.

April 20, 2022--Host Mari Rodin talks with Katherine Cole and Uma Hinman about special districts and how they work.

April 19, 2022- In this special podcast version of the Trail Stewards Radio Hour, hosts Paul Schulman and Chad Swimmer distill for you mountain of news coming from Jackson--the People's Forest and also talk to Biofuel Watch International's Gary Hughes about the problems with California's carbon markets.

April 18, 2022--Coyote Valley Tribal Chairman Michael Hunter brings the latest information about his work to protect Pomo Ancestral Homelands in Jackson Demonstration State Forest, including his ongoing meetings with the head of California's Department of Natural Resources, Wade Crowfoot. He talks about the progress being made toward the vision for Tribal Co-Management of JDSF's 50,000 acres of publicly owned redwood and douglas fir forests. Pomo Perspective can be heard live on KZYX every 3rd Monday of the month from 9-10am PST.

April 15, 2022--Host Bob Bushansky talks with Julian Zelizer, editor of a new book: The Presidency of Donald J Trump — A First Historical Assessment. The book has 19 essays looking at Trump’s racism, lies, impeachments, his effect on the GOP, white militancy, Latinos For Trump and more.

April 14, 2022--Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow return with “Talking About California” and part 3 of a series on the causes and consequences of the war in Ukraine. Their guest is Tariq Ali, the celebrated writer, film maker and peace activist. He writes fiction and non-fiction and has published in magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the London Review of books. He is frequently a guest on Democracy Now.

April 14, 2022--Join Mary Anne Petrillo, CEO of West Business Development Center for the New Normal Radio Hour. Mary Anne talks with Sheila Semans, Executive Director of the Noyo Center for Marine Science, and Brianna Zuber, Associate Professor of Biology at Mendocino College, for a discussion on what the blue economy is and what it means for our county’s economic development and growth. Part 1 of 2 in a special series.

April 14, 2022-- Host Jenn Procacci talks with Chiah Rodriques of Arcanna Flowers, Michael Katz of MCA, and Genine Coleman of Origins Council about the cannabis documentary, Lady Buds.

April 13, 2022--Alex and Doug revisit some of the themes from recent shows, with a focus on the role of government incentives (carrots) and mandates (sticks) as vital in the move forward toward environmental health. With listener calls.

April 13, 2022--Karen Ottoboni talks with Kate Feigin, Program Director for the Restorative Justice Program at the Mendocino County Jail.

April 12, 2022--A dramatic loss of kelp forest habitat along the Mendocino-Sonoma coast has received national attention. To find out what scientists are learning about this phenomenon, Tim and Bob talk with Dr. Laura Rogers-Bennett of the UC David Bodega Marine Laboratory. She leads a team that monitors marine environmental health using field investigations, laboratory work, and quantitative modeling, and has been monitoring nearshore marine conditions for 30 years. They ask her about the latest research and what is being discovered about the kelp, sea urchins, and sea stars, and what might be done to "help the kelp."

April 12, 2022--Dr. Marvin Trotter speaks with Micheal Frick, who runs the Oral Health Grant for Public Health Community Wellness in Ukiah, and Jen Stasch, Executive Director at Pediatric Dental Initiative in Windsor, about oral health for children, and the extraordinary impact it can have for lifelong wellbeing.

11 de abril de 2022--Esta semana en Mendolatino hablamos de Tango con el Maestro Guitarrista venezolano Carlos Caminos de Los Tangueros del Oeste. Este grupo de Nuevo Tango fusiona ritmos y texturas del hip hop y la electrónica con el flamenco. Tocarán en Ukiah el 24 de abril. April 11, 2022-- This week on Mendolatino we talk about Tango with Venezuelan Master Guitarist Carlos Caminos of Los Tangueros del Oeste. This Nuevo Tango group blends beats and textures from hip hop and electronica with flamenco. They will be playing in Ukiah on April 24th.

April 10, 2022--Join Jerry and Vince to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports.

April 7, 2022--Join Johanna Wildoak for Wildoak Living, the program about creating sustainable community in Mendocino County and beyond. Listeners are invited to call in with questions or to share ideas. This episode features local author Monroe Robinson, as they discuss his latest book, The Handcrafted Life of Dick Proenneke.

April 9, 2022--On Forthright Radio, host Joy LaClaire interviews former CIA analyst and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity member, Ray McGovern. He’ll share his expertise, knowledge and perspectives on the current and evolving geopolitical situations.

April 7, 2022--Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow return with “Talking About California” and an interview with Phyllis Bennis. Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at Institute for Policy Studies, focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

April 5, 2022--This week on The Ecology Hour, host Hannah Bird speaks again with PhD candidates, Phoebe Parker-Shames and Kendall Calhoun, about their research projects. Phoebe is studying the environmental impact on cannabis production, and Kendall is studying wildlife response to wildfire.

April 6, 2022--Dan Gjerde, 4th District County Supervisor, talks with Bekkie Emery, Jill Rexrode and Nancy Powers-Stone about local resources for those who care for elders.

April 6, 2022--Jim Heid and Toby Malina take listeners on a journey into the depths of wikipedia, the free, people-powered online encyclopedia. They talk to the creator of a wildly popular social media account called “Depths of Wikipedia,” which showcases some of the just-plain-weird things that have made their way into wikipedia.

April 4, 2022--Join Corine Pearce and her guests, culture bearers Eric Wilder, a local artist and storyteller from the Kashia Pomo Tribe and Sara Calvosa of the Karuk tribe from the Hupa valley, a home cook and food writer who works with traditional native foods of California.

April 3, 2022-Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports. You can hear the The Sports Phone, Sunday nights at 7pm PST, on KZYX and Z or at kzyx.org. Call in from anywhere at 707-895-2448.

March 10, 2022--Alicia Bales presents a very special program remembering Legendary Civil Rights Attorney Dennis Cunningham, who died on Saturday March 6, 2022 at the age of 86. Featuring an interview with Dennis first broadcast on October 29, 2019 for the KZYX Ecology Hour, just before Dennis was honored by EPIC the Environmental Protection Information Center in Humboldt county for his lifetime of advocacy on behalf of activists. With reflections from Darryl Cherney, who Dennis represented in his civil rights case with Judi Bari against the FBI and Oakland Police, and from Tom Wheeler, the executive director of EPIC, about Dennis’s role as a hero to up and coming social justice lawyers.

April 1, 2022--Hosts Roland Corey Medina and Chad Swimmer look closely at body image, gender dysmorphia, the bad old HIV positive diagnosis and a fabulous new book that really brings it home. They also check out ways to fight back against the slew of hateful new laws sweeping red America.

April 1, 2022--Bob Bushansky speaks with Stian Westlake, co-author of Restarting The Future — How To Fix The Intangible Economy. Stian Westlake is the CEO of the Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain. He believes that with the decline of manufacturing, the intangible economy — intellectual property, R & D, software, design, etc. — is the future and it needs fixing.

March 31, 2022--Mendocino Theatre Company brings you their reading of SUPPRESSED DESIRES, a hilarious satire of contemporary fads written in 1915 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. The reading, directed by Lorry Lepaule, features Pamela W. Allen, Mark Friedrich, Ken Krauss, and Laura Pinyuh.

March 31, 2022-- Host Elizabeth Archer goes in depth on a different kind of food-related topic. She talks about the prevalence of anti-fat bias in our society and medical system, and detail her own journey of overcoming the shame of fatness and learning to appreciate and love her fat body.

March 31, 2022--Host Jenn Procacci talks with Attorney Hannah Nelson about the Vegetation Modification Letters that many cultivators have received in Mendocino County.

March 30, 2022--Hosts Doug and Alex talk with Michael Pratt, lead automotive technologies instructor at Mendocino College, about Mendo College’s new EV program, other school offerings, and the many employment opportunities made possible with different certifications. With listener questions.

March 30, 2022--Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow interview the award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn, columnist for the London Independent and the Financial Times. He has also worked as a correspondent in Moscow and Washington and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books. Cockburn discusses the causes, consequences and dangers of the war in Ukraine.

28 de marzo de 2022--MendoLatino presenta a Camila Chávez Directora Ejecutiva de la Fundación Dolores Huerta y a Eliana Jiménez Honeycutt quien es la Coordinadora de Participación Ciudadana del Condado de Kern para la misma fundación. Acompáñanos a celebrar a las mujeres a través del reconocimiento de su trabajo, luchas y triunfos. March 28, 2022--Hosts Diana Coryat and Loreto Rojas talk with Camila Chavez, Executive Director of Dolores Huerta Foundation, and Eliana Jimenez Honeycutt, the foundations' Citizen Participation Coordinator for Kern County.

March 27, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports.

March 24, 2022--Join Michelle Blackwell for the first episode of Upwelling. She interviews award winning local author Ginny Rorby about her recent novel Like Dust I Rise. Rorby chronicles a family’s struggle to capture the American Dream from the Chicago Stockyards to the ravages of the depression and the dust bowl. Upwelling brings the richness of local literature to the airwaves.

March 24, 2022--This episode of Disquiet on the Western Front features a montage of people, animals, running or falling water, poetry, original music, and one 120-year-old Ukrainian folk song in Yiddish. That is Disquiet on the Western Front, Conversations to Cool a Planet on Fire.

March 24, 2022--Join host John Horton for Inside Education’s spotlight on the Mendocino County Science Fair. Guests include MCOE Science Fair Leaders Dr. Maia Steward, EJ Renner, and Bessie Glossenger. Student interviews will be highlighted in next month's show.

March 24, 2022--Join Johanna Wildoak for Wildoak Living, the program about creating sustainable community in Mendocino County and beyond. Listeners are invited to call in with questions or to share ideas.

March 23, 2022--This week, hosts Jim Heid and Toby Medina talk about the surge of fake friend requests that a lot of people are seeing on Facebook. Hackers will often create fake accounts and use them to obtain personal information. Learn how to spot the fakes and report them. They also cover about the recent White House warning regarding cyberattacks that could be part of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. And they go local with an interview with the business manager of Mendocino Community Network to learn what’s new from one the original local internet providers in Mendocino County.

March 22, 2022--Anna Halligan speaks with Alicia Hamann, Executive Director at Friends of the Eel River, about the potential of a free flowing, undammed Eel River.

March 21, 2022--Tribal Chairman Michael Hunter explains the latest on the #PomoLandBack campaign and the struggle for tribal-comanagement in his tribe's ancestral homeland at Jackson Demonstration State Forest.

March 20, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports.

March 17, 2022--Host Jenn Procacci talks with Michael Katz of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, giving an update on local and state cannabis policy, as well as what's new with the MCA.

March 17, 2022--Steve & Annie discuss “What are Russian Oligarchs doing in U.S. Tax Havens?” with Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies.

March 18, 2022--Bob talks with Frederick Schauer about his new book The Proof — Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else. How does someone know whether what you were told was a fact, a rumor, or hearsay?

March 17, 2022--Host Elizabeth Archer interviews Lucy Bartholomew and Michelle Duarte of Blue Zones Mendocino County. They will give listeners a primer on Blue Zones, discuss the recently completed Food Policy Discovery Report, and take caller questions.

14 de marzo de 2022--MendoLatino celebra a las mujeres a través del reconocimiento a su trabajo, sus luchas y triunfos. Con Ana Almanza, Naya Barreto, y Juliana Sanchez. March 14, 2022--MendoLatino celebrates women through recognition of their work, struggles and triumphs. With Ana Almanza, Naya Barreto, and Juliana Sanchez.

March 16, 2022--Hosts Doug and Alex talk about gravitational potential energy batteries, used for storing excess solar power in raised weights to put power back into the grid when the sun isn't shining.

March 16, 2022--Host Mari Rodin interviews Jordan Wells of the National Stewardship Action Council about recycling policy.

March 15, 2022--On the Trail Stewards Radio Hour, hosts Paul Schulman and Chad Swimmer distill all the Jackson State “People's Forest” news into one action packed hour: State Senator McGuire's town hall, Cal Fire's PR-Palooza, the Jackson State Coalition's gathering momentum, the Pomo's Caspar Cultural and Spiritual Gatherings.

March 13, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports.

March 11, 2022--Veteran author/journalist Thom Hartmann returns to discuss the latest in his Hidden History series: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF BIG BROTHER IN AMERICA: HOW THE DEATH OF PRIVACY AND THE RISE OF SURVEILLANCE THREATEN US AND OUR DEMOCRACY, as well as the evolving situation(s) in the U.S. and abroad.