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Giving Locally: Nonprofits Shine a Light
Santa Cruz Gives is the brainchild of Jeanne Howard former publisher of Good Times weekly. It’s a local crowdfunding site where people can support many local good deeds and projects in one spot. Gues…
Published on 1 year ago
Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farmworkers
It’s time to give thanks to the folks who harvest our food. California’s farmworkers feed the world. KSQD presents excerpts from Rachel Anne Goodman’s Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm…
Published on 1 year ago
Author Manjula Martin can harvest plenty from a fruitless apple tree
Host PK Hattis is joined by the wonderfully talented and incisive local writer Manjula Martin. Martin is author of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, as well as Fruit Trees for…
Published on 1 year ago
Homeless Garden Project Interview
Host Janet Quinn will be talking with Brian Sweeney, the Director of Operations for the Homeless Garden Project and Loren Schneider, the Social Enterprise and Value Added Retail manager. You’ll hear …
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
HR 9495 Threat to Nonprofits
On November 21st, 2024, Congress passed the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, aka HR 9495. If signed into law, the bill would hand huge powers to the Trump administrat…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Local Farm Worker Advocates Respond to Deportation Threat
The president-elect has threatened to deport millions of undocumented people, including farmworkers. What would that do to our food prices? What will it do to families where one parent is without pap…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Post-Election Reflection
This Talk of the Bay includes phone-in comments from listeners, and guests Erik Nelson, host, What a Week, KSQD, and Adam Spickler, a Cabrillo College Trustee and political observer.
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Santa Cruz Local Election Guide
Santa Cruz County voters have several ballot initiatives and two county supervisor races to vote on, including city council races in three cities. We took time to go through several measures and cand…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Everything you need to know about running a local election
Some of you may have heard: We’re having an election next week. And while there’s, rightly, lots of focus on the various candidates and the measures that voters will weigh in on in only a few days, t…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Interview: Kristen Brown, Candidate for District 2 Santa Cruz County Supervisor
In this engaging interview, Kristen Brown, the current mayor of Capitola and candidate for Santa Cruz County Supervisor (District 2), discusses the final stretch of her campaign with host Bodie Sharg…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago