KZYX Public Affairs

March 10, 2022--Host Chris Skyhawk continues his series “Late Stage capitalism, the collapse of the existing system: What’s next?” His guest this episode is Audrya Chancellor, a sacred sound practitioner and a recently certified Reikki Master. They look at collective and personal healing modalities that may help people with the shifting times we find ourselves in.

March 4, 2022- This week hosts Roland Corey Medina and Chad Swimmer bring you voices from Mendocino County Department of Social Services about foster care for LGBTQIA+ youth and how open-minded adults can help; what it used to mean to *test positive* back in the 80s and 90s; and a special segment on 'having my baby'--how gay couples create loving families.

March 10, 2022--Johanna talks with a journalist calling in live from the Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees, a representative from the International Rescue Committee and people involved locally in helping the people of Ukraine.

March 9, 2022--Join hosts Bob Laughton and Jim Heid with the latest computer news and time for your calls. That’s all things computed, with Point and Click Radio.

March 8, 2022--Ravens, Ravens, Ravens! The Ecology Hour takes a deep dive into this fascinating local bird with Dr. John Marzluff of the University of Washington. The biology and behavior of ravens is complicated and fascinating. They have many human-like traits, such as pair bonding, social hierarchies, tool use and a fantastic memory. Join hosts Tim Bray and Robert Spies in an enjoyable hour long interview and discussion of ravens.

March 9, 2022--Wednesday mornings on TKO, host Karen Ottoboni takes a look at hot topics in local politics. This week’s topic is food insecurity in a time of inflation. Karen will be talking with the director of the Fort Bragg Foodbank about what’s being done to keep our communities fed. Tune-in and call-in with your comments and questions, every other Wednesday at 9am, alternating with Citizen U, right here on KZYX and Z.

March 8, 2022--This week on Mind/Body Health, Dr. Trotter's guest is Angela Eaves-Lewis. They talk about patient insurance woes, how to with insurance when you experience hospitalization or long-term care.

March 7, 2022-- Celebrate women's history month with special guests Georgina Marie Guardado, award-winning Lake county poet laureate, and Shirley Matilton Feather, local business owner, one of the 2022 Women's History Gala Celebration honorees.

March 6, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports.

March 4, 2022--Host Bob Bushansky talks with A J Baime about his new book White Lies — The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret. With blonde hair, fair skin, and a slim patrician nose, Walter White was able to, and did, pass for “white.” He went to the scenes of lynchings, and to the aftermath of race riots and massacres, where he interviewed some of the participants and victims, who gave him unshielded answers to his questions.

March 3, 2022--Blake More talks with Mendocino County’s very own Jazz scholar and producer Fred Adler. They discuss his lifelong love of Jazz and specifically the peace and presence of John Coltrane with a special tribute to his musical legacy.

March 3, 2022--Host Elizabeth Archer discusses landrace gardening with local farmer Julia Dakin.

March 2, 2022--On this episode of "For the Love of Reading:” Tales of Cats and Dogs. Poems, memoirs, and short stories about Our Best Friends, featuring Rudyard Kipling’s The Cat That Walked By Himself and Memoirs of Yellow Dog, by O.Henry. Read for you by Linda Pack.

March 2, 2022--Supervisor Gjerde interviews Megan Allende and Roger Foote of The Community Foundation of Mendocino County.

February 28, 2022--MendoLatino presents a special program about what to plant this season to eat and how to create a flower garden to attract bees. Cultivate your own food this Spring and learn about bees and beekeeping with master gardeners Camila Javiera and Francesca Sandoval. Francesca is a professional beekeeper who teaches all about bees and beekeeping.

February 27, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, a community conversation for sports lovers.

February 25, 2022--Host Joy LaClaire talks with award winning journalist, Jonathan Katz, about his latest book, GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM: SMEDLEY BUTLER, THE MARINES, AND THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF AMERICA’S EMPIRE.

February 25, 2022--Disquiet on the Western Front features youth on the front lines: Sorrel, Walker, Ravel, and Otter talking about defending the trees of Jackson, plus Alicia Littletree, recounting when she was a youth activist, defending trees in Enchanted Meadow. That is Disquiet on the Western Front, Conversations to Cool a Planet on Fire.

February 24, 2022--Local teachers react to the idea of the mask mandate ending for schools. Host John Horton, teacher at Willits Unified, interviews Tessa Ford, Union President for Willits Teachers Association.

February 24, 2022--After twelve years as Mendocino County’s Chief Executive Officer, and the first woman to ever serve in that role, Carmel Angelo is retiring on March 20. Alicia Bales sat down with her in the KZYX studio to look back at her years at the helm of Mendocino County’s Executive Office, the challenges she faced during her time as CEO, and what she anticipates for local government in Mendocino County after she leaves.

February 24, 2022--This week, Johanna talks with Donna d’Terra and Gary Martin about an art show coming up in March at the Willits Center for the Arts. This invitational show called “Voices of the Earth” features 35 artists expressing how the Earth/Gaia/Nature communicates to us and through us.

February 23, 2022--Join hosts Bob Laughton and Jim Heid every other Wednesday at 7pm for Point and Click Radio, with the latest computer news and time for listener calls.

February 23, 2022--Host Karen Ottoboni takes a look at hot topics in local politics. She walks listners through some of the latest goings on in the county, with open-lines.

February 22, 2022--Host Anna Halligan interviews two North Coast Fisheries Biologists about a recent study that was conducted in Pudding and Caspar Creeks to evaluate the relationship between restoration activities and fish and habitat response. This episode includes a great discussion about how scientific data can improve recovery actions and the importance of long-term scientific monitoring.

February 22, 2022--Marvin’s talks with Suni Smith and Kay Lieberneck about healing personal and societal issues around suicide, mental illness, and trauma.

February 21, 2022--Host Michael Hunter, Tribal Chairman of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, discusses the latest developments in his efforts to protect his ancestral homelands in Jackson Demonstration State Forest from logging by CalFire.

February 20, 2022--Jim and Jerry Young return after the Super Bowl for The Sports Phone, the live call in radio talk show for sports lovers on KZYX and Z.

February 18, 2022--Host Bob Bushansky talks with Lea Ypi about her new book Free: A Child and a Country At the End of History. Lea grew up in Albania before the end of the Soviet Union in 1990. Albania was one of the most Stalinist countries in the USSR, and life was hard. She is now a professor at the London School of Economics.

February 17, 2022--Hosts Annie Esposito and Steve Scalmanini talk with with George Reinhardt and Jim Tarbell of The Grassroots Institute of Mendocino County about the Future of the Noyo Headlands (previously the Georgia Pacific mill site) in Fort Bragg.

February 17, 2022--Host Elizabeth Archer takes a tour of all the good news happening in food, farming, and gardening around the country and the world.

February 17, 2022--Host Jenn Procacci brings you voices from the local Cannabis Community, with perspectives about the politics, cultivation, economy, uses and culture of Mendocino County’s most talked-about crop. On this episode, Jenn talks with Matt and Sophia of High Rollers Artisanal Pre-Rolls.

February 16, 2022--Host Mari Rodin talks with Neil Davis, the Director of Community Services for the City of Ukiah, the founder and director of Ukiah Valley Trail Group and former director of Walk and Bike Mendocino. They talk about trails in the Ukiah Valley, and the present and future of the Great Redwood Trail.

February 15, 2022--On the Trail Steward's Radio Hour, Paul Schulman and Chad Swimmer present readings from their new coffee table book, This Gem of a Forest. They also speak with Tom Wheeler, executive director of EPIC about how they support environmental causes across Northern California, and, of course, you will hear updates on what's going on right now in Jackson--The People's Forest.

14 de febrero de 2022--Con un enfoque en auto-cuidado y amor propio platicamos con 3 latinas, que trabajan con inmigrantes y comunidades de color para sanar y transformar experiencias de violencia y trauma. On Valentine’s Day, MendoLatino focuses on self-care and self-love. They talk with three Latinas who work with immigrants and communities of color to heal and transform experiences of violence and trauma.

February 13, 2022--Jim and guest host Tim talk about all things sports, on this Super Bowl Sunday Edition of The Sports Phone.

February 11, 2022--Joy LaClaire talks with UCSF Hastings Law Professor Emeritus, John Leshy, about how the US Government came to own nearly one-third of the nation’s land. His forthcoming book is called OUR COMMON GROUND: A HISTORY OF AMERICA’S PUBLIC LANDS.

February 10, 2022--Alicia Bales talks with Troyle Tognoli of the Mendocino Chapter of Black Lives Matter about her work locally for racial justice. With updates on the progress of the county’s Public Safety Advisory Board and BLM’s Black History Month Art Contest for Kids.

February 10, 2022--Johanna talks with local presenters of an upcoming series of Zoom workshops about Living Well: Techniques for Stress Reduction, part of her series about coping and thriving in a world where emergencies are the new normal. These programs feature local people with expertise in developing personal and community resilience.

February 9, 2022--Bob Laughton and Jim Heid host Point and Click Radio, with the latest computer news and listener calls for tech advice.

February 9, 2022--Karen Ottoboni talks with Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall from quarantine, where he is recovering from Covid-19.

February 8, 2022--Dr. Robert Spies and Tim Bray talk with Professor Merav Ben-David from University of Wyoming who has done extensive studies of river otters in the western US and Alaska. Learn about the ecology and physiology of these fascinating, playful, highly social and common aquatic mammals in coastal Mendocino County.

February 8, 2022--Dr. Marvin Trotter talks with Clover Martin, the Director of the Ukiah Recovery Center.

February 7, 2022--Corine visits with 2 local Elem Pomo tribal elders: Thomas Leon Brown, the oldest living member of the Elem tribe, and Don Montez. Both are living legends, culture bearers and teachers of several generations of Pomo people. They discuss the importance of preservation, representation and practice of living indigenous culture.

February 6, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking listener calls about all things sports. The Sports Phone, the place for sports lovers on KZYX.

February 4, 2022--Hosts Roland Cory Medina and Chad Swimmer paint a portrait of queer on the Mendocino Coast, with a focus on the challenges facing LGBTQIA youth and how you can change a life by being a foster parent. Pride Radio 101 is queer music, stories, opinions, and lives from Mendocino County and beyond.

February 4, 2022--Host Bob Bushansky talks with Christopher Elias about his new book Gossip Men — J Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation. They explore how these three men, who knew each other and at times worked together, influenced politics by spreading gossip, lies and insinuation.

February 3, 2022--Host Blake More interviews vibrational science pioneer Don Estes. They discuss his lifelong quest to develop methods and practices to use sound, light and vibration technologies rather than psychedelics to access non-ordinary states of mind.

February 3, 2022--Host Elizabeth Archer interviews Rachel Britten, owner and operator of the Mendocino Grain Project. They discuss what grows well in our region, the role of grains and legumes in our local food system, how the Grain Project has evolved after a recent transition, and answer questions from callers.

February 3, 2022--Host Jenn Procacci presents an Emerald Cup panel discussion from 2018, called 'Holistic Practices To Control Pests And Plant Pathogens' with spekaers Lydia Abernethy, Ron Whitehurst, Kelly Dunn, and Josh Sarvis. Moderated by Heavy Dayze.

February 2, 2022--Join hosts Doug and Alex for a show about the latest developments in Renewable Energy.