KZYX Public Affairs

October 1, 2021--Join Jim and Jerry Young live on KZYX every Friday night to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking listeners calls about all things sports.

October 1, 2021--Bob Bushansky speaks with two authors, Kay Whitlock and Nancy A Heitzeg, about their new book Carceral Con: the Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform. They have spent years researching the many attempts at criminal justice reform only to find that not only did the reforms not work, they often made things worse.

September 30, 2021--Mendocino Theatre Company brings you a reading of Susan Glaspell's TICKLESS TIME, a one-act satire, written in 1918, that will have you laughing out loud! Read by the Mendocino Theater Company.

September 30, 2021--Alicia Bales talks with Assembly Member Jim Wood and Paul Mason, policy advisor and lobbyist for Pacific Forest Trust, about AB-9, a groundbreaking new law to accelerate fire preparedness in neighborhoods and vulnerable landscapes in California.

September 30, 2021--Host Jenn Procacci speaks with Chris J. Russo and Chiah Rodriques, director and subject in the upcoming documentary, LADY BUDS.

September 29, 2021-- Doug and Alex talk about new developments in Renewable Energy and answer listener calls.

September 28, 2021--Host Anna Halligan interviews Trout Unlimited’s Staff Attorney and water rights expert Matt Clifford about the drought and California water policy.

September 28, 2021--Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow focus on immigration issues with Alvaro Huerta, Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning and Ethnic & Women’s Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. This is Part 2 of a 4-part special series for Hispanic Heritage Month produced by Loreto and Cal for Talking About California. It is airing Tuesdays at 3pm on KZYX and Z.

September 28, 2021--Mari Rodin discusses all things water and drought with Sean White, Water and Sewer Director for the City of Ukiah. Learn about water supply issues, how their being addressed, the role of Mendocino County’s many water districts, and more.

27 septiembre 2021-- la historiadora Avi Chomsky con quien hablaremos sobre cómo y por qué las historias y memorias son borradas y el impacto de perder la memoria histórica. Todas estas ideas están en su libro: La Historia olvidada de Centro América: Revolución, Violencia y las Raíces de la Migración.

September 24, 2021--Join Jim and Jerry Young every Friday night to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports.

September 24, 2021--Alicia Bales welcomes KZYX News reporter Sarah Reith to talk about her series on PG&E's Fire Clearing work and its ecological and human impacts. Mathew Caine of the Willits Weekly joins for the local media round table in the second half of the show.

September 23, 2021--Michelle Hutchins, County Superintendent of Schools, interviews the human resource directors from the county’s three largest school districts to describe their open positions and how a person might apply.

September 22, 2021--KZYX Operations Director Rich Culbertson interviews Glenn Kirschner, former 30-year federal prosecutor, Legal analyst for MSNBC and host of the podcast Justice Matters. They explore what’s happening in the American Justice system today, and why the future of American Democracy depends on the prosecution of the crimes committed by the Trump administration.

September 22, 2021--Host Bob Laughton brings the latest computer news, with time for your calls. It’s all things computed, with Point and Click Radio.

September 22, 2021--Karen Ottoboni talks with Mendocino County 1st District Supervisor Glenn McGourty about the drought and the work of the county’s Drought Task Force.

September 21, 2021--Chad Swimmer and Paul Schulman talk with retired logger turned forest advocate Nick Parrish, and former Jackson Advisory Group member Linda Perkins.

September 21, 2021--Join Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow talk with the historian, author and activist, Aviva Chomsky to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This is the first of 4 special programs in a series that will air Tuesdays at 3pm on KZYX through mid-October.

September 21, 2021--Join Dr. Marvin Trotter discusses mindfulness Dr. Chloe Nicolaisen, of the Adventist Health Family Medicine Residency Program.

September 20, 2021--Dino Beltran, filmmaker and Vice Chairman of the Koi Nation, talks about his tribe's proposal to build a casino resort between Windsor and Santa Rosa in Sonoma County.

September 17, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young host the Sports Phone on "Fair Weekend," and every Friday at 7pm on KZYX, with live call ins on all things Sports!

September 17, 2021--Starting September 18, the Mendocino County Museum in Willits will host a special exhibit called “The Car Bombing of Judi Bari, A Community Remembers,” featuring artifacts from the life and work of Mendocino County’s own extraordinary environmental leader, Judi Bari. The exhibit includes the first public showing of the bombed car at the heart of her fight for justice. On this special program, hear Judi’s last public talk, recorded at Beginnings in Briceland in November 1996, as she lays out the evidence in her case against the FBI and explains why she and the Earth First! Movement were the targets of repression.

September 17, 2021--Host Kamelle Leggette, aka "K," talks with Los Angeles singer, songwriter, producer, and choreographer, Nakkia Gold.

September 16, 2021-- Chris Skyhawk's guests are Yurok Tribal Council Vice Chairman Frankie Myers about the upcoming name change of Patrick's Point State Park, and Angelina Cook from the McCloud Watershed Council about water use policies in these times of drought and climate change.

September 16, 2021--This week on The Farm and Garden Show, as a part of their ‘farmer spotlight series,’ hosts Lama, Matthew and Lila interview Alex Nielson of Cinnamon Bear Farm to discuss the realities of being a market farmer during a drought.

September 16, 2021--Host Jenn Procacci talks with Michael Katz of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance and Attorney Hannah Nelson about the Supervisors unanimous vote to overturn their own Cannabis Ordinance.

September 15, 2021--Join Doug Livingston and Alex Aragon for the Renewable Energy Hour on KZYX, and hour of expert talk about the latest in renewable energy and green off-grid power systems.

September 15, 2021--Joy LaClaire talks with Henry Giroux, who returns to KZYX to dissect our current state of affairs. After decades of predicting the demise of democracy and the rise of fascism, not just in the United States, but globally, his analysis continues to inform and offers ideas for resistance to the dehumanization of late stage global capitalism and zombie politics.

September 14, 2021--Hosts Tim Bray and Bob Spies interview Dr. Chad Hanson, fire scientist and author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate.

September 14, 2021--Mari Rodin talks with Ukiah Valley Fire District Chief Doug Hutchison, CalFire Mendocino Unit Chief George Gonzalez, and Mendocino Fire Safe Council Executive Director Scott Cratty about efforts to fight the Hopkins Fire in Calpella and how to protect homes from damage and loss.

13 septiembre 2021--MendoLatino conversa con la Dra. María Amelia Viteri sobre género, sexualidad, raza, etnicidad y migración. La importancia de reconocer la diversidad de las personas a la hora de desarrollar políticas públicas y de salud. September 13, 2021--MendoLatino is local public affairs in Spanish for Mendocino County, hosted by Diana Coryat and Loreto Rojas. This week MendoLatino interviews Maria Amelia Viteri, PhD about gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and migration. And about the importance of recognizing diversity when it is time to develop public and health policies.

September 10, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young return for KZYX's Friday night Sports call-in show, The Sports Phone.

September 10, 2021--Alicia Bales talks with Lost Coast Outpost reporter Ryan Burns, who broke the huge story last week about the mysterious company that wants to run a coal train on the old North Coast Rail line, which would kill plans for The Great Redwood Trail from the SF Bay Area through Mendocino County to Humboldt Bay. The second half of the show features an interview with Peter Pomerantsev, who studies the role of disinformation and propaganda in society. He’s the author of Nothing is True, Everything is Possible, which explores the development and use of Tactical disinformation campaigns in Russia, and his latest book This is NOT Propaganda, looking at the expansion of information warfare around the world. They talk about how disinformation works to sow confusion and mistrust, and why people are vulnerable to it.

September 9, 2021--Steve and Annie talk with Ashik Siddique of the Institute for Policy Studies. He co-authored a study on military spending, which is more holistic than the conventional studies. It reaches into Homeland Security, ICE, and other agencies that are actually quite militarized. If you look at it that way, the 6 trillion dollars we spend on military turns out to be more like 21 trillion. He also connects that militarized culture to current social divisions, the rise of white supremacists for example.

September 9, 2021--Johanna Wildoak features local organization whose fundraising and outreach have been impacted by the pandemic. Michelle Rich with the Community Foundation of Mendocino County, Karen Oslund Executive Director of the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County, and Elizabeth Elmore the CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Ukiah.

September 8, 2021--Bob Laughton hosts a solo version of Point and Click Radio, with the latest computer news and answers to listeners' questions about all things digital.

September 8, 2021--Karen talks with Supervisor Ted Williams to get an update on the many issues affecting Mendocino County right now, including the severe drought, the allocation of PG&E Fire settlement funds, Covid-19, and the county's strategic planning.

September 7, 2021-Take a dive into our forests with the Ecology Hour. Hannah Bird is joined by Dr. Mike Jones, UC Cooperative Extension Forestry Advisor, on an audio exploration of Mendocino County's different forest types to understand some of the stresses and adaptations our incredible woodlands are currently showing. From drought to wildfire and human management, how can we best support healthy forests?

September 7, 2021--Dr. Trotter and Cob talk with Dr. Claire Denley about Colon Cancer screenings and treatment. Dr. Denley is a Family Practice Resident at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley.

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September 5, 2021--Three college students from Mendocino County discuss the Three C's- Covid, Climate Change, and College. Insightful and entertaining.

September 3, 2021-- Jim and Jerry Young return to host one of community radio's few live SPORTS call-ins, The Sports Phone! A lively hour of community conversation about all things Sports, every Friday night at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

September 3, 2021-- Bob Bushansky talks with Tara Dawson McGuiness, who along with Hana Schank, wrote “Power to the Public - The Promise of Public Interest Technology”. They believe that there is no solving the world’s hardest problems without government, and that technology can play a critical role, but it is never the solution alone.

September 2, 2021--This week On Be More Now, host Blake More interviews multi-disciplined alchemist, Randolph Masters. Masters is an award winning composer, a professional, multi-instrumentalist musician, frequency and sacred geometry consultant, and university music teacher. Show topics include the future of healing as it pertains to music, frequency and architecture.

September 2, 2021--Join Alicia Bales as she interviews legendary Environmental Attorney Sharon Duggan about her lifetime of impactful litigation to protect the forests of Northern California, and her latest efforts to advocate for a “CalFire divorce,” a call to separate the Forestry and Firefighting sides of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

September 1, 2021--On this edition of "For the Love of Reading: CHALLENGED and CENSORED, Linda Pack reads selections from Banned Books. Hear what many people — over centuries — have NOT wanted you to hear! Featuring selections from banned authors including: Nicholas Copernicus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, George Orwell and more. This program is in honor of Banned Books Week, an annual event sponsored each September by the American Library Association, celebrating the First Amendment and the Freedom to Read by spotlighting current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.

September 2, 2021--Jenn Procacci brings you a throwback talk with Kevin Jodrey at the 2015 Emerald Cup where he focuses on harvest and curing. Fall is right around the corner! Do you know all the tips and tricks to best preserve your cannabis harvest?

September 1, 2021--Doug and Alex host a show about new developments in Renewable Energy.

September 1, 2021--Joy LaClaire talks with Izzy Award winning journalist Todd Miller about what he’s learned in his 25 years of reporting from the southern border of the US and his latest book, BUILD BRIGES, NOT WALLS: A JOURNEY TO A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS, published by City Lights Books.

August 31, 2021--Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow, hosts of “Talking about California,” interview Susanna Hecht, Professor of Geography at UCLA’s Environment and Sustainability Institute. In a conversation that ranges from the redwood forests of northern California to the heart of the Amazon in Brazil, Professor Hecht discusses human “management” of the earth’s forests from Paleo-Indian times to the present. The program is part of a series of in-depth interviews that examine the fate of the California redwood forests, focusing on Mendocino County.