KZYX Public Affairs

June 8, 2021--Co-hosts Tim Bray and Robert Spies interview behavioral biologist Dr. Mark Hauber of the University of Illinois about Cowbirds. Widespread and abundant, Cowbirds are "brood parasites:" laying their eggs in the nests of unsuspecting other birds who incubate those eggs and raise the young. Learn about the intricate behavior of cowbirds and their victims in this fascinating interview.

Anderson Valley’s own Tiernan and Morgan Kobler discuss the personnel involved with wildland firefighting, what they do, and some challenges they face. The show will also feature Lana Cohen’s interview with Cal Fire Mendocino Chief, George Gonzales, about this year’s drought, what to expect this fire season, and how Cal Fire is preparing.

June 4, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young are back for the Sports Phone, hosting a lively community wide forum on all things sports. Listen live and call in every Friday at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

June 4, 2021--Bob Bushansky speaks with Colin Jerolmack about his new book Up To Heaven and Down to Hell - Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town.

June 3, 2021--This week on Be More Now, host Blake More interviews Sound Healing author, teacher, and practitioner David Gibson about vibrational healing.

June 3, 2021--This week on Putting Down Roots, Phoenix and Michelle talk all about Plants and Botanicals on the Mendocino Coast with their guests Wavelength Farm, Ficus and Fern, and The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.

June 3, 2021--Johanna talks with Chuck Collins about his new book The Wealth Hoarders, which offers a blueprint for reversing inequality.

June2, 2021--Point and Click Radio is hosted by Bob Laughton and Jim Heid with help from Toby Malina at the Point and Click Research Desk. It airs live on KZYX and Z every other Wednesday from 7-8pm.

June 2, 2021--Joy LaClaire speaks with Editor-at-Large at Talking Points Memo, John B. Judis, about his updated compilation, THE POLITICS OF OUR TIME: Populism, Nationalism, Socialism, published by Columbia Global Reports.

June 1, 2021--Host Hannah Bird is back! Hard work, low pay and miserable conditions! Sound attractive to you? The California Conservation Corps are a committed group of young people aged 18-24 developing new job skills, expanding personal growth and conserving California’s natural resources. Join members of the Ukiah CCC on the Ecology Hour to learn about their experiences and their journey to become California Naturalists at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center.

June 1, 2021--Dr. Marvin Trotter talks with Dr. Robin Serratin, RN Anita West, and Paramedic Davey Beck of Mendocino Coast Hospital. They discuss the Coast hospital’s transition to management by Adventist Health among many other issues.

May 28, 2021--Enjoy this special Portland Sports Phone "Sports Bar" edition of The Sports Phone with Jim and Jerry Young. You can listen live and call in to the show every Friday night at 7pm on KZYX and Z or catch the live stream at kzyx.org.

May 28, 2021--Frank Hartzell and Kate Maxwell of Mendovoice.com make up the local media round table on this edition of Byline Mendocino. Followed by a damning report about the PG&E Fire Victims' Trust by Lily Jamali of the California Report and KQED news, and Aaron Glantz of NPR's California News Desk, who is working on a fire mapping project to keep people safe this fire season.

May 27, 2021--Join Michelle Hutchins, County Superintendent of Schools, for Inside Education, as she interviews pediatricians and family practitioners about the COVID-19 Vaccine. She talks with three local doctors to learn about the safety of this vaccine for children and adolescents.

May 27, 2021--Attorney Hannah Nelson and Genine Coleman of the Origins Council talk with host Jenn Procacci about the Origin Council's recent CEQA Report.

May 26, 2021--Alicia Bales welcomes five people involved in the creation of a new mural on North State Street in Ukiah that features Khadijah Britton, a local Native woman who disappeared on February 7, 2018. With Katie Ray, a member of Round Valley Indian Tribes; Shane Grammer of Hope Through Art; Kate Feigin and Kamille Leggette of Drug Free Communities; and Mercy, one of the youth mural artists.

May 26, 2021--Karen Ottoboni talks with Mendocino Emergency Operations Director Brentt Blaser about the new emergency communication system, the Zone map, and how listeners can participate in Wednesday’s notification test. Mendocino County is launching a new emergency response plan in preparation for the upcoming fire season. They are dividing the county into numbered ‘zones,’ and asking county residents to get to know the zone numbers where they live and work. On Wednesday, they will test their Wireless Emergency Alert system and launch a new website MendoReady.org for emergency information, including the map of the new zones.

May 25, 2021--This week on The Ecology Hour, Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow host a special episode of Talking about California. They interview Professor Will Russell, an environmentalist at San Jose State University. Russell is a leading authority on redwood restoration, and the role of redwood forests in carbon sequestration. He is an expert on how commercial logging increases the threat of wildfires. Much of Russell’s research has been done in Jackson Demonstration State Forest here in Mendocino County.

May 25, 2021--It's a Mendocino County Fire Safe Council recap. Executive Director Scott Cratty from the Mendocino County Fire Safe Council and CAL FIRE information officer Trisha Austin cover what is going on in the local CAL FIRE unit now, and review key points about being ready for the coming season.

May 25, 2021--MendoLatino is Local Public Affairs in Spanish, hosted by Loreto Rojas and Diana Coryat. This week, they explore the experience of Family Medicine at the US-Mexico border. Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista prepares physicians to provide medical care that respects the culture of its patients, and an integrated view of health. Three physicians will share their experiences, and Dr. Andy Coren will give an update about COVID in Mendocino County. MendoLatino presenta la experiencia de medicina familiar en la frontera. El Hospital Scripps Mercy en Chula Vista prepara a médicos en medicina centrada en el respeto a la cultura de las pacientes y ofrece una mirada amplia de la salud. Tendremos 3 médicos hablando de sus experiencias y al dr. Andy Coren quien nos dará un reporte sobre la situación de COVID en el Condado de Mendocino. Escuche MendoLatino este lunes 24 de mayo a las 9 de la mañana en KZYX.

Tune in Sunday at Noon to “Radio Ha Ha For Kids” (And Their Families & Friends) with host Jim Beatty, The Dancing Grandpa. This week’s show features “Wheels and Rolling Things.” With songs, dance, stories, “Hear Ye, Hear Ye!…"The Listening Game”, fun facts, & more, “Radio Ha Ha For Kids” is listening fun for everyone, young, old and in between. Tune in and dance, sing and play every Sunday at NOON on KZYX and Z. It sounds like FUN!

May 21, 2021-- Jim and Jerry Young are back for the Sports Phone, hosting a lively community wide forum on all things sports. Listen live and call in every Friday at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

May 21, 2021--Bob Bushansky speaks with Dorothy Wickenden, the executive editor of The New Yorker Magazine. Her latest book is: “The Agitators - Three Friends Who Fought For Abolition and Women’s Rights”. The three women are Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances A. Seward. Their efforts changed the course of this country’s history.

May 20, 2021--This week on Universal Perspectives, Chris Skyhawk’s guests are Daniel Sheehan and Sara Nelson with the Lakota People’s Law Project. The project is dedicated to reversing the slow genocide of the Lakota People and destruction of their culture, partnering with Native communities to protect sacred lands, safeguard human rights, promote sustainability, reunite Indigenous families, and much more. There is also an update for listeners on the Jackson State Forest Tree Sit in East Caspar.

May 20, 2021--This month’s Mendocino College Symposium Lecture features Professor Rachel Donham: From Zombies to Planet B, Environmental Toxicology and Justice. Have you ever wondered if zombies are real, just how bad are cigarettes, or what’s really in the water? This talk explores a brief history of environmental toxicology and environmental justice, covering local, national, and international issues such as lead in drinking water, mercury in Clear Lake, and the injustice and immediacy of climate change. Professor Donham holds a BS in Environmental Toxicology and a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from UC Davis.

May 20, 2021--This week, Johanna invites listeners to call in with their visions and thoughts for our future. How are you dealing with the lifting of Covid restrictions? Is the climate crisis on your mind? What are your hopes for the future of our kids or grandkids? What are you doing to prepare for the fire season?

May 19, 2021--Hosts Bob Laughton and Jim Heid bring you Point and Click, KZYX's biweekly computer show, with the latest computer and internet news, and answers to listeners' computer questions.

May 19, 2021--Joy LaClaire speaks with Washington University Professor, Mark Rank, about his work and his latest book, POORLY UNDERSTOOD: WHAT AMERICA GETS WRONG ABOUT POVERTY, co-written with Lawrence M. Eppard and Heather E. Bullock.

May 18, 2021--Artists Betty Lacy, Laura Fogg, Margo Frank and Rosie Saxe Morris continue the discussion about waste in our culture and what we can do about it on the local level. They focus on their use of art as a catalyst for community action. Through their upcoming RECLAIMED show at the Corner Gallery in Ukiah, which is all created from the cast-off junk of our culture, the artists begin a conversation with KZYX listeners and leaders in our community to explore what can be done to alter our course of environmental degradation and navigate towards a healthier Earth for all.

May 18, 2021--Dr. Marvin Trotter talks with Ukiah Physical Therapist Dr. Emily Pedersen.

May 17, 2021--Coyote Valley Tribal Chairman Michael Hunter and Sunny Elliot of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians talk about their journey together through higher education, and their graduation ceremony at Sonoma State University this weekend.

“Radio Ha Ha For Kids” (And Their Families & Friends) with host Jim Beatty, The Dancing Grandpa. This week’s show features “Fun With Frogs!” With songs, dance, stories, “Hear Ye, Hear Ye!…"The Listening Game”, fun facts, & more, “Radio Ha Ha For Kids” is listening fun for everyone, young, old and in between. Dance, sing and play every Sunday at NOON on KZYX and Z. Sounds like FUN!

May 14, 2021-- Jim and Jerry Young are back for the Sports Phone, hosting a lively community wide forum on all things sports. Listen live and call in every Friday at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

May 14, 2021--KZYX News' Lana Cohen talks with Fisheries Biologist Anna Halligan of Trout Unlimited and Dr. John Abatzoglou, Associate Professor in the Department of Management of Complex Systems at the University of California, Merced, about the impact of the current severe drought on Mendocino County's natural environment.

May 13, 2021--Hosts Annie Esposito and Steve Scalmanini discuss the voter suppression bills being pushed in several key state legislatures with David Armiak, Research Director of The Center for Media and Democracy, followed by an interview with Ellen Drell, cofounder of the Willits Environmental Center, about the a possible upcoming Referendum on the County’s Proposed Cannabis Cultivation Land-use Ordinance.

May 13, 2021--Host Jenn Procacci talks with Attorney Ed Denson about Humboldt County's use of Satellite monitoring for Cannabis Abatement, a model that is now being considered for Mendocino County.

May 12, 2021--KZYX Program Director Alicia Bales presents a special interview with NPR’s global health correspondent Jason Beaubien. Jason has family in Mendocino County, and while he was in the area on May 8, he sat down for a conversation about radio, his work covering the global pandemic, and why stories from around the world matter. If you listen to NPR news, Jason Beaubien’s name will be familiar. Over his two decades at NPR news he has travelled all over the world, bringing listeners the voices of ordinary people living through extraordinary circumstances, from civil wars to nuclear meltdowns. He has spent most of his career in the developing world, and has a reputation for being willing and able to cover disasters. So when news came of an outbreak of a novel virus in Wuhan, China, he tried to get in to tell the story. Since then he has reported on the scope of the pandemic throughout the world, and has shined a light on the stark inequities revealed by the global response. He spoke to KZYX on Greenfield Ranch in the hills west of Redwood Valley.

May 12, 2021--Karen Ottoboni gives a thorough update with commentary about the current issues facing the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, and opens the phone lines for listener input.

May 11, 2021--Co-hosts Tim Bray and Bob Spies talk with Dr. Sarah Kupferberg, an aquatic ecologist doing research at the University of California's Angelo Reserve in northern Mendocino County. Dr. Kupferberg has studied the food web in the South Fork of the Eel River, including the yellow legged frog. They explore the life history of these frogs, how they use the riverine habitat, and their population status.

May 11, 2021--This week on on Mendocino County Fire Safe Radio, Host Scott Cratty delves into concerns and get advice about Homeowners Insurance with Amy Bach, Executive Director of UP, United Policyholders, providers of information for insurance customers. He also reviews the state of 2021 wildfire-related legislation with Representative Jim Wood.

May 10, 2021--Este lunes MendoLatino comenzará la hora hablando con Redwood Care Giver Center sobre recursos que están disponibles are familias afectadas por COVID. El enfoque principal será Latinas en la Educación Superior, y un proyecto de investigación sobre las barreras que se enfrentan, que se llama UnDocuLatina. Sintonicen a MendoLatino a las 9 de la mañana! MendoLatino is a biweekly local public affairs program in Spanish, with hosts Diana Coryat and Loreto Rojas. This week MendoLatino starts the hour with the Redwood Care Giver Center, and the resources that are still available for families who have been affected by COVID. The main theme of the program is Latinas in Higher Education, the systemic barriers they face, and a research project called UnDocuLatina.

May 9, 2021--“Hear Ye, Hear Ye!”…“Radio Ha Ha For Kids” (And Their Families & Friends) celebrates “Mothers Everywhere” with host Jim Beatty, The Dancing Grandpa. Featuring songs, dance, stories, the “listening game”, fun facts, & more, “Radio Ha Ha For Kids” is listening fun for everyone, young, old and in between. Tune in live and dance, sing and play every Sunday at NOON on KZYX and Z. It sounds like FUN!

May 7th 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.

May 7, 2021--Bob Bushansky speaks with Sara Laschever about her book, co-witten with Linda Babcock, called Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. It explores how our institutions, child-rearing practices, and implicit assumptions discourage women from asking for the opportunities and resources that they have earned and deserve.

May 6, 2021--Blake More interviews author, philanthropist and spiritual teacher J. Jaye Gold, who founded the Center for Cultural & Naturalist Studies, a California non-profit organization that offers disaster relief in the US and works with underprivileged children worldwide. They talk about his work, his lifelong studies & world travels, as well as his insights on how subtlety, humor, perspective, and an understanding of group dynamics can help us come to terms with today’s fast-paced, technology-filled culture.

May 6, 2021--This week on Putting Down Roots, hosts Phoenix and Michelle explore “Local Curiosities and Hidden Gems” with Guests Anne Maureen McKeating, Director of the Larry Spring Museum, and “Mr. G and Chinchilla” from Triangle Tattoo in Fort Bragg.

May 6, 2021--This week, Johanna talks with Megan Barber Allende, President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Mendocino County. They’ll discuss the work of the foundation to support the people and organizations of our county during the Covid pandemic and its plans for the future. She also talks with Chloë Guazzone-Rugebregt of Anderson Valley Health Center; and Laurel Near and Ignacio Ayala of SPACE, the School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education, in Ukiah.

May 5, 2021--On this episode of For the Love of Reading....In Memoriam: Stories by Local Writers we have lost. Featuring selections by Lenny Laks, Antonia Lamb, Bobby Markels, Bonnie Sanger, and Chester Anderson. Read for you by Linda Pack.

May 5, 2021--Hosts Bob Laughton and Jim Heid bring you Point and Click, KZYX's biweekly computer show, with the latest computer and internet news, and answers to listeners' computer questions.

March 5, 2021--Joy LaClaire speaks with forestry scientist Suzanne Simard, about her decades long research to discover the workings of the interconnected fungal web underlying healthy forests. Her highly anticipated book, FINDING THE MOTHER TREE: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, was published on May 4th.