KZYX Public Affairs

December 21, 2021--Dr. Marvin Trotter talks with Mendocino County Head of Social Services Bekkie Emery and Program Specialist Steve Gornyecz about enrolling in Covered California and Medi-Cal.

December 20, 2021--Coyote Valley Tribal Chairman Michael Hunter and his daughter Ma-kayla share their unique Native American Generational Perspective.

December 17, 2021--“Tales of the Winter Solstice,” stories from around the world to Celebrate the Return of the Light. Read for you by Linda Pack, with special guests, R. Bobby and Rickie Dedola. Roman Saturnalia, Norse and Celtic Yule feasts, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, an Inuit tale of Raven, The Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, the ancient Persian festival of Yalda Night and more!

December 17, 2021--Bob talks with Michael D Minta about his new book “No Longer Outsiders — Black and Latino Interest Group Advocacy on Capitol Hill”. It wasn’t that long ago when the number of Black and Latino members of Congress could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Today you need to be polydactyl to count their numbers. With a much higher number of members comes new found clout.

December 16, 2021--On Corporations and Democracy, Annie and Steve review Project Censored’s most suppressed news stories for 2021. Andy Roth joins Steve and Annie, with the over-all theme of “journalism in turmoil.”

December 16, 2021--Join Johanna “Wildoak” for Wildoak Living, the radio program about sustainability and building community in Mendocino County and beyond. This week, Johanna talks with Zida Borcich, Judith Detrick, Felicia Rice and Theresa Whitehill about Book Arts Mendocino, and with Juliana Sanchez about the Mendocino Coast Children’s Fund.

December 15, 2021-- Host Mari Rodin interviews Janet Pauli—a rancher and vintner with a doctorate in zoology—about the history and future of the Potter Valley Project and the Eel River diversion into the Russian River watershed.

December 14, 2021--Hosts Tim Bray and Bob Spies talk with Dr. Edwin Grosholz of the University of California at Davis, who has been conducting research on Green Crabs on the Pacific coast. Anglers trying for Dungeness crab in the Mendocino rivers have been pulling up lots of small greenish crabs instead - the invasive European Green Crab. Hear the story of how they got here and how they are affecting the ecosystems as well as fisheries.

Monday December 13, 2021--MendoLatino, a public affairs radio program in KZYX and Z interviewed Ignacio Ayala and David González of SPACE en Ukiah, and Lydia López of UVA: Ukiah Vecinos en Acción. A lively dialogue about successes, challenges and future plans with two community-based organizations. MendoLatino , un programa radial en español en KZYX y Z entrevista a Ignacio Ayala y David González de SPACE en Ukiah y Lydia López de Ukiah Vecinos en Acción. Un diálogo entretenido sobre los éxitos, desafíos y planes al futuro de dos grupos comunitarios de Ukiah.

December 12, 2021--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports! Live every Sunday evening at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

December 10, 2021--Host Joy LaClaire talks with award winning national security journalist, Spencer Ackerman about his work and his recent book, REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA AND PRODUCED TRUMP.

December 3, 2021--Check out Mendocino County's newest queer radio hour, Pride Nation 101. Hosts Roland Corey Medina and Chad Swimmer feature L G B T Q I A + music, perspectives, opinions, and lives. This week features Roland's story, and in interview with Jennifer Sookne of the Mendocino Pride Alliance and Marriage Equality.

December 9, 2021--Join host Chris Skyhawk for Universal Perspectives, as he continues his series- “surviving late stage capitalism, What’s next?" His guest is bodyworker and healer James Hummecky. They talk about how the human body responds during a time of planetary crisis, and different paths of healing humans might take individually and collectively, to create new political and social paradigms.

December 9, 2021--Matthew talks compost, not to be confused with talking dirty! Also, he presents ideas on how to single-handedly dismantle the Big Ag corporate oligarchy.

December 9, 2021--Host Jenn Procacci hosts a discussion focused on this year's Emerald Cup Harvest Ball, featuring Emerald Cup Founder Tim Blake, Michael Katz of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, Phil from Mendocino Family Farm, Chiah of River Txai Farms and Arcanna Flowers, Blaire of Radicle Herbs, Marty of Martyjuana, and Nate of Higher Heights Farms.

December 8, 2021--Join hosts Doug and Alex for a show about new developments in Renewable Energy.

December 8, 2021--Karen’s guest is Robert Pinoli, President & CEO, of Mendocino Railway. The topics will be the history of the Skunk Train, his company's recent purchase of the old GP mill site in Fort Bragg, and future plans of the Railway.

December 7, 2021-- Host and environmental educator Hannah Bird speaks with Dr Adina Merenlender, adjunct Professor at UC Berkley, about her new book, Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California.

December 6, 2021--This month on Good Ancestors and Local Treasures with Corine Pearce, Corine’s guests are two amazing women: Bonnie Lockhart and Ali Meders-Knight. They talk about all the incredible things these two are making happen in the local Indigenous community.

December 5, 2021--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, in their *new* time, Sunday nights at 7pm! Taking your calls about all things sports.

December 7, 2021--Dr. Marvin Trotter talks with Mariane Cox Gould, head Medical Assisted Treatment provider for the county, about the use of Suboxone for Opiate addiction, and why the US had 100,000 overdose deaths in the last 12 months, an increase of over 25% from the previous year.

December 2, 2021--Blake More interviews Ladies of BAM – Book Arts Mendocino – Theresa Whitehill, Felicia Rice and Zida Borsich. They discussing BAM and its series of exhibitions, readings, talks, demonstrations, and workshops, all devoted to the wide ranging & varied arts of the book.

December 2, 2021--Join Farm and Garden Show host Elizabeth Archer and Live Power Community Farm owner Gloria Decater for a special commemoration of Stephen Decater, who passed away on November 4. Listeners call in to share memories of Stephen, who spent five decades building and tending to Live Power in Covelo.

December 2, 2021--Johanna talks with Jen Dalton, Vice President of Hearthstone Village, a local non-profit that raises money to support a community of girls in Haiti, and Danilla Sands of United Disaster Relief of Northern California about their new resource center in Ukiah.

December 1, 2021--Tune in for an all-new episode of 'Citizen U'. This week’s topic? The inside scoop on elected office. Hear co-hosts Supervisor Dan Gjerde and Ukiah Council Member Mari Rodin discuss all things local government.

November 29, 2021--Mendocino Latinx Alliance's November Virtual Meeting featured a panel discussion on the Historical Context of Racial Relations Among Latino and Native American Populations in California. The two panelists were Professor V, an adjunct professor of ethnic studies at San Francisco State, who is also a musician and producer. And Dioganhdih, a hip-hop artist and producer. Professor V (born in Guanajuato, Mexico) and Dioganhdih (Mohawk) collaborate on music together. This presentation is the first of a three-part series where MLA will host a race exploration dialog. The purpose is to: (1) examine the progression of race dynamics and what that looks like in our own community, (2) to open dialog and (3) to celebrate the strength and richness of Latino and Native American cultures in Mendocino County.

November 28, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young take listener calls about all things sports, with this week's guest Matt Winslow, local JV Coach at Mendocino High School.

November 26, 2021--On this final episode of Byline Mendocino, Alicia Bales speaks with local youth radio producers Marshall Brown of KAKX at Mendocino High School, and Billy Heatherington of the Radio Production class at Willits Charter School. In the second half of the show she talks with Fort Bragg Vice Mayor Jessica Morsell-Haye about developments with the Georgia Pacific Mill site, which has been shuttered for almost 20 years and is now under the ownership of the Skunk Train owners Mendocino Railway, despite ongoing efforts by the City of Fort Bragg to purchase the site.

November 25, 2021--Michelle Hutchins, Mendocino County Superintendent of Schools, interviews California Poets In the Schools Area Coordinator, Blake More. Ms. More has put together a collection of poems written and read by students all over the county.

November 25, 2021--Host Jenn Procacci presents "Growing on the Rez", a piece about the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians and their journey to enter the legal cannabis cultivation space. Followed by two 2018 Emerald Cup Talks: the first with Sunshine Johnston, "Low Impact Winter Farming", and the second with Dan Mar, "Rainwater Catchment and Groundwater Recharge".

November 25, 2021--KZXY broadcasts a lecture by Lake County archaeologist Dr. John Parker called The Kelsey Brothers, a California Disaster. The Kelsey Brothers are well-known for their cruelty and abuse of local Pomo people. Dr. Parker takes a close look at the facts surrounding their genocidal violence against local Pomos, and attempts to find the true story of the Bloody Island Massacre. Recorded by Euston Productions at the The Ely Stage Stop Museum in Kelseyville on October 9, 2021, and broadcast with permission from Dr. Parker.

November 24, 2021-- Karen Ottoboni flies solo, taking listener calls and catching folks up on local happenings, the day before Thanksgiving.

November 23, 2021--Anna Halligan interviews Lucas Bissett, the Executive Director of the American Fly Fishing Trade Association, about how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and the Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act can create opportunities for significant change for fisheries and habitat.

November 22, 2021--On MendoLatino, hosts Diana Coryat and Loreto Rojas focus on the Covid-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11, with Leah Collins, M.D. and pediatric nurse practitioner Erica Baumker. With information about the approval process of the vaccine and answers to the most common questions. En Espanol: MendoLatino informa sobre la vacuna Covid-19 para los niños de entre 5 y 11 años de edad. Habrá información sobre el proceso para aprobar la vacuna y respuestas a las preguntas más frecuentes. Escuche a la Dra. Leah Collins y a la enfermera pediátrica Erica Baumker este lunes 22 de noviembre a las 9 de la mañana en una nueva edición de MendoLatino, su programa en español aquí en KZYX.

November 19, 2021--On Politics: A Love Story, host Bob Bushansky speaks with leading economist Scott Sumner about his new book The Money Illusion — Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy.

November 18, 2021--Annie and Steve take a hard look at the Chevron Corporation with Richmond Community Organizer Andrés Soto - ranging from unprecedented prosecutions against an environmental lawyer to the unhealthy air in Richmond.

November 18, 2021--Host Johanna Wilodoak continues her mini-series about the arts in Mendocino County, with David Burton about the Grace Hudson Museum & Sun House in Ukiah.

November 17, 2021--Bob Laughton and Jim Heid host Point and Click Radio, with the latest computer news and listener calls for tech advice.

November 16, 2021--Hosts Paul Schulman and Chad Swimmer talk with Mendocino County alternative builder Colin Gillespie about handsome and energy-efficient houses made with little to no milled lumber. They also have an update about the efforts to protect Jackson State Forest with forest activist Anna Marie Stenberg.

November 17, 2021--Host Joy LaClaire talks with UCLA Professor of History, Benjamin Madley, about his award winning book, AN AMERICAN GENOCIDE: THE UNITED STATES AND THE CALIFORNIA INDIAN CATASTROPHE, 1846-1873, in this archived interview from 2016.

November 16, 2021--On Mind/Body Health, Cob speaks with Azucena Chavez-Huerta, the Engagement Lead at Blue Zone Project Mendocino County.

November 15, 2021--Coyote Valley Tribal Chairman Michael Hunter talks about the latest developments in the efforts to protect JDSF, Jackson Demonstration State Forest within his people's traditional territory in Mendocino County.

November 12, 2021--Alicia Bales talks with local Mill Owner Art Harwood of Harwood Forest Products and the Redwood Forest Foundation, RFFI, about the long view on Forestry in Mendocino County.

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November 11, 2021--As a part of their ‘farmer spotlight series’ Lila, Matthew and Lama interview Caymin Ackerman, owner of Big Mesa Farm in Comptche.

November 11, 2021--Host Jenn Procacci plays the Analytical Breeding Programs Panel from the 2018 Emerald Cup, with information about Cannabis genetics and breeding.

November 10, 2021--Join hosts Doug and Alex for a show about new developments in Renewable Energy.

November 10, 2021--Karen Ottoboni talks with Kyle Farmer, chair of the 2020 Mendocino County Redistricting Committee, about the redistricting process and what happens next.

November 9, 2021--Hosts Bob Spies and Tim Bray talk with Scott Koller, a wildlife biologist retired from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, about the information gained from monitoring the bears taken by hunters.

8 de noviembre de 2021--Conversaremos con Juan Orozco, alcalde de Ukiah, y John Haschack, supervisor del distrito 3, sobre la nueva distribución geográfica de los distritos electorales en el condado de Mendocino y los desafíos que encontramos entre la población de habla hispana para participar en estos procesos. November 8, 2021--MendoLatino presents a conversation about redistricting in Mendocino County with Juan Orozco, Mayor of Ukiah, and John Haschack, Mendocino County Supervisor for District 3.