KZYX Public Affairs

July 21, 2021--Host Joy LaClaire speaks with Princeton University Professor, Jan-Werner Müller, about his latest book, DEMOCRACY RULES, an examination of the rules and norms essential to democracy and its future flourishing. That’s Forthright Radio, listen live Wednesday at 9am on KZYX and Z.

July 20, 2021--Hosts Chad Swimmer and Paul Schulman speak with environmental activist Naomi Wagner and scientist, educator, and historian, Bill Lemos about how to save a forest. Also Alder and Sara Rose with updates on progress of the new campaign to protect Jackson State Forest.

July 20, 2021--Dr. Marvin Trotter talks with Willits Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Katsuura about back surgery and more.

July 19, 2021--Coyote Valley Pomo Elder Priscilla Hunter and her partner Environmental and Native Rights Attorney Polly Girvin talk about the latest events in their Tribe's efforts to preserve and protect the forest and cultural sites in Jackson Demonstration State Forest in Caspar, including their attempt last week to meet with CalFire. When CalFire realized the site visit would begin with a prayer circle, the agency abruptly changed plans, effectively cancelling the meeting.

July 16, 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. Listen live, every Friday night at 7, on KZYX and Z.

July 16, 2021--This week On Politics: A Love Story, host Bob Bushansky will be speaking to Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund, Micheal Keen and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, Joel Slemrod about their new book, "Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages," and taxes.

July 15, 2021--Chris Skyhawk interviews members of the Coalition to Save Jackson State Forest about this week's scheduled government-to-government consultation with local Pomo tribal members that CalFire canceled unexpectedly when they saw that the Pomo representatives were part of a prayer circle with a number of supporters.

July 15, 2021--Johanna Wildoak hosts a call in show about green grilling and staying safe and healthy during heatwaves.

July 14, 2021--Jim Heid talks with MCN business manager Sage Statham.

July 14, 2021--Karen Ottoboni hosts a community discussion about the latest hot topics in local politics.

July 13, 2021--Bob Spies and Tim Bray talk with Dr. Craig Smith of the University of Hawaii, who has been studying the phenomenon of "whalefall" - when a whale carcass sinks to the bottom of the deep blue sea. Whales are the largest animals on Earth. What happens when one dies? In the cold, dark regions of the deep sea floor, a whale carcass is a bonanza of nutrition and energy, supporting a complex and surprisingly long-lived ecosystem.

July 13, 2021--Mari Rodin talks with Uma Hinman, the Executive Officer of Mendocino County's Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO. Citizen U is a brand new public affairs show here on KZYX, hosted by Mari Rodin. Mari has decades of experience in local government in Mendocino County, and will help navigate the ins and outs of local power structures. How do decisions really get made around here?

MendoLatino presenta los anuncios de servicio público creados por el grupo DEI que aboga por la Diversidad, la Equidad y la Inclusión en el condado de Mendocino. Escuche las historias detrás de la creación de estos anuncios que invitan a las personas a vacunarse y así proteger a nuestra comunidad. También hay un reporte sobre COVID19 de Lucresha Renteria, directora ejecutiva de Mendocino Coast Clinics. July 12, 2021--MendoLatino is local public affairs in Spanish, hosted by Loreto Rojas and Diana Coryat. This week, they present the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force’s Public Service Announcements, created to promote vaccination and care during COVID19. Learn about the process of creating the message, recording and community effort. Also Lucresha Renteria from MCC gives a COVID19 update.

July 9, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young host another edition of The Sports Phone, a lively call in show about all things sports. Listen and call in live every Friday night at 7pm on KZYX.

July 9, 2021--Alicia Bales speaks with Ariel Carmona, Managing Editor of Lake County Record-Bee, and Danilla Sands of Mendocino Action News for this week's local media round table. In the second half, CapRadio's Scott Rodd talks about his investigation into Governor Newsom's misrepresentations about progress on wildfire prevention projects in the state, including in Ukiah and Willits.

July 8, 2021--Hosts Annie Esposito and Steve Scalmanini speak with former U.S. represenative and mayor of Cleveland, Dennis Kucinich, about his new book, "The Division of Light and Power."

July 8, 2021--Jenn Procacci speaks with Traci Pellar of the Mendocino Producers Guild about this weekend's Cannabis Farmer's Market in Laytonville, and Michael Katz of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance about local cannabis policy and his position on the referendum situation in the county.

July 7, 2021--On this edition of For the Love of Reading: To the Lighthouse. A selected condensation of Virginia Woolf’s luminous, thought-provoking masterwork. Beautiful, compassionate, and truly human. Read for you by Linda Pack

July 7, 2021-- Hosts Doug Livingston and Alex Aragon discuss new developments in Renewable Energy, with open lines for calls from listeners.

July 7, 2021--Joy LaClaire speaks with journalist Mike Rothschild about his latest book THE STORM IS UPON US: HOW QANON BECAME A MOVEMENT, CULT, AND CONSPIRACY THEORY OF EVERYTHING, just released by Melville House.

July 6, 2021--Hannah Bird hosts this week’s Ecology Hour focusing on forest health and fire with Dr. Mike Jones, UCCE Forestry Advisor for Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma Counties.

July 6, 2021--Dr. Marvin Trotter speaks with Dr. Jill Buller about lifestyle interventions for depression. Dr. Buller is a new resident at the Family Practice Residency Program in Ukiah.

July 2, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young host a lively and informative call in show about all things sports, every Friday night from 7-8pm live on KZYX and Z.

July 2, 2021--This week On Politics: A Love Story, host Bob Bushansky will be speaking to Theodore Roosevelt Johnson III about his new book When The Stars Begin to Fall - Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America. Ted is a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. He served in the U S Navy for 20 years and was a White House Fellow in the first Obama Administration. This is a DON’T MISS conversation. Politics: A Love Story, Friday at 9am here on KZYX and Z.

July 1, 2021--This week on Putting Down Roots, Host Michelle Frederick discusses The Wonderful World of Mushrooms, with guests Lama and Matthew, owners of The Forest People in Boonville and Dr. Richard Miller. They discuss mushrooms’ varied uses, ranging from culinary to mind altering.

June 30, 2021--Bob Laughton and Jim Heid host Point and Click Radio, with the latest computer news and time for calls. That’s all things computed, with Point and Click Radio.

June 30, 2021--Karen Ottoboni will talk with 5th District County Supervisor Ted Williams all about Mendocino County's pressing issues.

June 29, 2021--As signature gathering begins for two different voter referenda aimed at rolling back or rejecting the recently approved county Cannabis Ordinance, 5th District Supervisor Ted Williams makes an affirmative case for the new policy. Hosted by Alicia Bales.

June 28, 2021--MendoLatino presents Roseanne Ibarra and Erica Nunez Reyes creators of Project Reparations podcast. Their first episode "The traumas we carry" was released in March (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tz9pV3Fo6j7iTy1HBIKlt). The purpose of the podcast is "to disentangle the web of hate, self-deprecation, oppression, intolerance, colonialism and victimization that continues to affect people of color and minorities.Our hope is to assist in empowering people who are not heard". Listen to a lively conversation about the original idea, the making of the podcast, the voices involved and the plans for future episodes.

June 25, 2021--Alicia Bales talks with Kate Maxwell of the Mendocino Voice and Loreto Rojas of MendoLatino about a county wide bilingual local news and information survey they are collaborating on. She is joined by Jackie Orozco in the second half of the show, Publisher of Periodico Al Punto, a monthly local Spanish Language newspaper for Lake and Mendocino Counties.

June 24, 2021--Michelle Hutchins, County Superintendent of Schools, interviews Round Valley High School Senior Gerald Britton. Britton shares the experience of his internship with KEET TV in Eureka and the Public Broadcasting Service which gave Britton the opportunity to make his movie titled, “From Ridge to River and From Fish to Fire.” That’s Inside Education, listen live Thursdays at 3pm on KZYX and Z.

June 23, 2021--After a 6 month hiatus, the Renewable Energy Hour is back! Doug and Alex discuss new developments in Renewable Energy that have exited us in the last six months. Listeners call in with their own excitements or concerns. Listen to The Renewable Energy Hour live, Wednesdays at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

June 23, 2021--Host Karen Ottoboni talks with 3rd District Supervisor John Haschack about Mendocino County's pressing issues. That’s TKO, listen live on Wednesdays at 9am on KZYX and Z.

June 24, 2021--Host Jenn Procacci speaks with Mendocino County Cannabis Program Manager, Kristin Nevedal, to discuss her role in the cannabis program, and demystify the cannabis equity program.

June 22, 2021--Host Anna Halligan interviews David Dralle, Research Hydrologist for the US Forest Service, about his research on groundwater storage capacity in the Eel River and other Mediterranean climates.

June 22, 2021--Project Manager Elizabeth Archer explains the details of a new grant opportunity that will reimburse eligible Mendocino County homeowners in high fire risk zones approximately 70% of the cost of a new "Class A" type fire safe roof. For those who qualify, this is an opportunity to harden their homes and save thousands of dollars courtesy of FEMA, CAL OES, and Mendocino County.

Join Michael Hunter, Tribal Chairman of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, for Pomo Perspective, every 3rd Monday at 9am, right here on KZYX and Z.

Join Jim and Jerry Young every Friday night to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports. Every Friday night at 7, here on KZYX and Z.

June 18, 2021--Bob Bushansky talks with Carol Anderson, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Emory University, about her new book The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Is the Second Amendment about guns or Anti-Blackness? Listen to Politics, a Love Story live Friday at 9am, on KZYX & Z.

June 17, 2021--Host Chris Skyhawk talks about Direct Action. With ongoing blockades in Fairy Creek in British Columbia, Thacker Pass in Nevada, and right here at home in Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Chris takes a look at what’s happening and why activists are taking to the woods. That’s Universal Perspectives. Listen live Thursday at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

June 17, 2021--Host Johannna Wildoak is joined by the Communications Manager of the Community Foundation and the coordinator of the Renewable Energy Development Institute to discuss community resilience and disaster preparedness.

June 16, 2021--Bob Laughton and Jim Heid host Point and Click Radio, with the latest computer news and time for calls. That’s all things computed, with Point and Click Radio. Listen live, Wednesday at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

June 16, 2021--Host Joy LaClaire speaks with Director of the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, Andy Norman, to discuss his latest book, MENTAL IMMUNITY: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think.

June 15, 2021--Join Paul Schulman and Chad Swimmer for the *premier* of the Trail Stewards Radio Hour. They give an update about the New Campaign to Restore Jackson State Forest, and interview climate scientist JP O'Brien about the intersection between logging, climate change, and wildfire. They also speak with local biologist Teresa Sholars about how timber harvest can be done from an ecologist's perspective.

June 15, 2021--On Mind/Body Health, Dr. Marvin Trotter talks with Jen Dalton, president of Hearthstone Village, a nonprofit running a girls program in Haiti for orphans. They discuss lessons from their successes.

MendoLatino presenta a Emily Cohen, directora, y a Ashley Solis, protagonista de Fruit of Labor. Un film sobre una joven Latina en el sur de California enfrentada a las fuerzas visibles e invisibles que mantienen a su familia atrapada en la pobreza. Y la lucha por los trabajadores esenciales que ponen comida y frutas en nuestras mesas. También tendremos al Dr Coren quien informará sobre Covid. MendoLatino presents Emily Cohen, director, and Ashely Solis, protagonist of Fruit of Labor, is a coming of age story about an American teenager traversing the seen and unseen forces that keep her family trapped in poverty. And the essential workers that put food on our tables. We’ll also have a report about Covid-19 from Dr. Andy Coren. That’s MendoLatino, Monday morning at 9am here on KZYX and Z.

Join Jim and Jerry Young every Friday night to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, taking your calls about all things sports. Every Friday night at 7, here on KZYX and Z.

June 11, 2021--Alicia Bales host the local journalism round table for this week with Matt LaFever of MendoFever.com and Robin Epley, Editor in Chief of the Fort Bragg Advocate News and the Mendocino Beacon. Regional Wildfire Reporter Sarah Stierch joins in the second half of the show to talk about using social media to adapt to the immediacy of fire reporting.

June 10, 2021--Jenn Procacci talks with Charles Sargenti of Small is Beautiful and Lew Chichester to discuss the referendum movement against 10% cannabis cultivation.

June 9, 2021--Karen Ottoboni talks with Delynne Rogers of Ukiah PFLAG and Katherine Fengler of GLAM on to talk about gay pride and progress through community alliances. And to acknowledge all the work they’ve done in this community over the past 20 years for gay rights and inclusion.