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The Budget, Parks and Firefighting; Honoring Artists In this week’s Talk of the Bay: Monterey Bay area farmers have learned to save energy with new technology.  California Secretary of Natural Resources John Laird discusses how the Governor’s budget proposal for 2012 through 2013 might effect rural fire fighting and state parks. Then Laird remembers his contemporaries, Bert Muhly and Scott Kennedy, fellow activists [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Solutions in Education Despite years of declining funding and performance, there are efforts afoot to improve education in California. On this week’s Talk of the Bay, we reviewed KUSP’s Solutions in Education coverage of successful education projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Year of Environmental Reporting on KUSP               Listen to excerpts from stories about the Elkhorn Slough;  a lost species of manzanita; and efferts to change one’s environmental behavior. Links: Elkhorn Slough,  / UCSC Arboretum Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Presidential candidate Rocky Anderson, “Young Adult” J.D. Hillard interviews Rocky Anderson the candidate for the President of the United States for the newly formed Justice Party, who criticizes what he views as corruption in the Democratic and Republican parties.  Dennis Morton reviews the new Charlize Theron film “Young Adult”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Santa Cruz Rail Line Loses Operator J.D. Hillard – Sierra Northern, the operator of the freight line that runs from Pajaro to Davenport, has announced it will be discontinuing that role. Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission project Manager Luis Mendez said the change results from problems in the relationship between Sierra Northern and Union Pacific. Mendez discusses the SCCRTC’s progress [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Planning for Climate Change and The Eviction of Occupy SC Occupy Wall Street’s Santa Cruz contingent was evicted from the bench lands of San Lorenzo Park this week. Santa Cruz City and county staff had catalogued numerous instances of damage attributed to the encampment. Among these were damage to the grass where tents had stood and the cost of sanitary services to clean up human [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dr. Jill Stein Green Party/Planning for Wildfire J.D. Hillard – Dr. Jill Stein is running for the presidential nomination of the Green Party. She explained how she takes inspiration for her campaign from the Occupy movement. Also, in the wake of the massive Indians and Basin Complex fires of 2008, Big Sur residents and environmentalists are sitting down with foresters to make [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Occupy Protesters Negotiate Over Camping Laws City of Santa Cruz and Occupy protesters negotiate over camping laws vs the amendment right to assembly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nancy Kotowski, Tom Little Bear Nason, Otter 501 J.D. Hillard interviews Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Nancy Kotowski about recent upgrades to playground equipment, and to Esalen tribal elder Tom Little Bear Nason about Firescape the ongoing process of creating a forest fire policy. Nason relates ancestral knowledge about the fire management practices of indigenous people. Later in the show, Kelly O’Brien talks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aquarium’s Great White Dies; Canella: Pension Reform; MPAs Overcome Challenge Even after increasing cuts for several years of successive budgets, California needs to do more to bring its revenues and spending in line. One approach that has gained steam this year is to change how much public agencies are obligated to set aside for employees’ retirements. Also, California Secretary of Natural Resources John Laird on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Laird on State Parks, Jana Marcus on Transgendered People Sean Rameswaram interviews John Laird, the current California Secretary for the State’s Resources Agency and former legislator, describing efforts to save California’s State Parks. Photographer Jana Marcus talks to Rick Kleffel about Transfigurations, her presentation of pictures of transgendered people. Photo © Jana Marcus All rights Reserved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Laird, Transfigurations John Laird the current California Secretary for the State's Resources Agency and former legislator describes efforts to save California's State Parks. Photographer Jana Marcus talks to Rick Kleffel about Transfigurations, her presentation of pictures of transgendered people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Crime, the prison system, and predictive policing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reducing Crime Through Predictive Policing and Realignment Can a new tool called predictive policing change the way police prevent property crime? We take a ride-along with Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Steve Clark to find out. Plus, California just launched it’s realignment program — shifting functions and future prisoners from the state to the counties. The plan has supporters and skeptics in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | University of California and Students, The Palo Alto International Film Festival. University of California and Students, The Palo Alto International Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | UC Students and rising fees, Film Festival in Palo Alto Sean Rameswaram interviews UCSC students about escalating student fees and cuts to student services. He also talks to University spokesperson Ricardo Vázquez. Kirby Scudder reports on the Palo Alto International Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sam Farr, Anthony Capella on jobs, San Jose's Safe Summer Initiative, Mountain Art Center Sam Farr, Anthony Capella on jobs, San Jose's Safe Summer Initiative, Mountain Art Center Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Creating Jobs, Preventing Gang crime, Mountain Art Center Elected officials Sam Farr and Anthony Cannella discuss job creation in response of President Obama’s speech. San Jose’s Safe Summer Initiative, which offers young people positive alternatives to gang recruiting, is threatened by tight budgets. Mountain Art Center’s gallery displays local artists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Protecting Our Environment and a Trip to The Crossroads Protecting Our Environment and a Trip to The Crossroads Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Protecting Our Environment and a Trip to The Crossroads The EPA recently settled a lawsuit with families on the Central Coast who feared their children were exposed to dangerous levels of methyl bromide while at school. The EPA says the settlement is historic, but the firms representing the families say they were left out of the decision-making process. Plus, what’s that Public Goods Charge [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Plastic and Ocean Ecology Sean Rameswarem reports on the restaurant Charlie Hong Kong's recent transition to green business practices, and interviews Jim Holm and Nick Drobac from the Clean Ocean's Project about their work to eleviate the Pacific garbage patch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Word: Plastics And a Few More Words: What Are We Going To Do With It? Sean Rameswaram on the restaurant Charlie Hong Kong’s adoption of green business practices. Can other restuarants make similiar moves? There’s help. Plus, an interview with Captain Jim Holm and Nick Drobac from the Clean Oceans Project. They discuss their efforts to clean up ocean pollution by converting plastic into fuel. Find out more about the Clean Oceans Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sam Farr Sean Rameswarem interviews Congressman Sam Farr. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Congressman Sam Farr Sean Rameswaram interviews Rep. Sam Farr of California’s 17th congressional district to discuss the path to job creation and a healthy economy. Farr hopes to see increased collaboration after a series of crippling impasses in the federal government. Photo by Stephen Laufer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Leopold, Steven Addi John Leopold on Redevelopment Agencies. Steven Addi's steel sculptures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Leopold on redevelopment and steel sculptures Sean Rameswaram speaks to Santa Cruz Supervisor John Leopold about budget cuts to Redevelopment Agencies. On KUSP’s Art Studio, Kirby Scudder talks to Steven Addi about his steel sculptures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview with Bill Monning, "Endangered Neighbors" exhibit KUSP's JD Hillard interviews Assemblymember Bill Monning about his new book, "Vision for a Healthy California" and what's to come for constituents. Photographer Sebastian Kennerknect discusses his "Endangered Neighbors" exhibit at the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview with Bill Monning, “Endangered Neighbors” exhibit KUSP’s JD Hillard interviews Assemblymember Bill Monning about his new book, “Vision for a Healthy California” and what’s to come for constituents. Photographer Sebastian Kennerknect discusses his “Endangered Neighbors” exhibit at the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carmel Bach Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carmel Bach Festival Kelly O’Brien’s conversation with former Monterey Symphony executive director Joe Truscott. Also, recorded interviews and music from the Bach Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Much Ado About Nothing, Wharf to Wharf Shakespeare Santa Cruz's production of "Much Ado About Nothing", the Wharf to Wharf race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ecology Action Energy Upgrade, Bill Monning Rick Kleffel speaks with Aleah Lawrence-Pine and Colin Clark about the Energy Upgrade California project, and interviews Assemblyman Bill Monning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Goodwin, Carmel Bach Festival Kelly O'Brien interviews Paul Goodwin, conductor for the Carmel Bach Festival about classical music and conducting orchestras. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cast and Crew of Cabrillo Stage's "Hair Spray" and Marco Barricelli of Shakespeare Santa Cruz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salinas hospital strike, The Last Five Years Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nick Krieger on Gender, Arthur Weinberg on Clarence Darrow "Sunday on Talk of the Bay, join host Rick Kleffel for a journey through gender with Nick Krieger, the author of Nina Here nor There. It's your chance to join in a conversation about transgender issues and step beyond the roles defined for us both society." Also, a recorded conversation with about Arthur Weinberg his book 'Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Richard Stedmen 0n Air Pollution Richard Stedmen 0n Air Pollution Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Full Monty, Mark Paul Cast and Crew of Cabrillo Stage's The Full Monty; Mark Paul, author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix it, on education budget cuts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dinner is served: Mollie Katzen, Michael Pollan, Ann Vileisis Food journalist Michael Pollan, cookbook author Mollie Katzen, and food historian Ann Vileisis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "The Lies of Sarah Palin" by Geoffrey Dunn Huffington Post and Metro Newspapers writer Geoffrey Dunn's talks about his new book about the "pathology of deceit" of American political figure Sarah Palin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Loyalty - the Vexing Virtue" by Eric Felten Loyalty the Vexing Virtue by Wall Street columnist Eric Felten Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Panel on Energy Security Panel on Energy Security Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bill Monning and Kamala Harris Bill Monning discusses creation of new bills in the California Assembly. Then an archived interview with Kamala Harris, author of "Smart on Crime" who later became the California Attorney General. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mountain Community Theater; Youth Arts Collective; Lizz Wright Members of the Mountain Community Theater, now presenting I Hate Shakespeare. Then Susie Franklin speaks with Kelly about the Youth Arts Collective in Monterey. And an interview with Soul Singer/Songwriter Lizz Wright. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tax Law for Registered Domestic Partners Tax Law for Registered Domestic Partners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Exploring the Future of Nuclear Energy with Dr. Robert Rosner Exploring the Future of Nuclear Energy with Dr. Robert Rosner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Novelist Tim Woods Tim Woods discusses his civil war era novel Grant Me Timely Grace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nuclear Renaissance - Fact or Fiction? Are new nuclear power plants the answer to climate instability? Re-broadcast of Talk of the Bay from Dec. 27, 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Joe Matthews and Mark Paul on Politics in California Rick Kleffel talks to Joe Matthews, author of The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy, and Mark Paul, senior scholar and director at the New America Foundation. Their recent collaboration resulted in the book California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Krafcik and Chris Hoffman on Energy Efficient Vehicles Kelly O'Brien talks to Hyundai CEO John Krafcik about building energy efficient cars. Later, Kelly talks to Chis Hoffman, inventor of the one-wheeled, electric powered RYNO Motors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Diana Paxson on Writing Arthurian Fantasy Rick Kleffel interviews writer Diana Paxson about her experiences writing fantasy novels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability director Dr. Susan Shaheen and Assemblyman Bill Monning Kelly O'Brien interviews Dr. Susan Shaheen, director of UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center. Later, Rick Kleffel interviews assemblyman Bill Monning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Talk with Martin Grunburg Rick Kleffel talks to Martin Grunburg about how to establish good habits in order to achieve success. Grunburg is the author of "The Habit Factor" and the creator of The Habit Factor iPhone and Droid apps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | At-Risk Youth in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties Kelly talks to Carmen Kubas of Lightfoot Industries and the Rancho Cielo Youth Campus about programs in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties that help at-risk youth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Talk About Spiritual Healing with Carolyn CJ Jones Rick talks to Carolyn CJ Jones about her book "Opening the Gates of the Heart: A Journey of Healing". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Timothy Lipman and Megan Smirty Ryerson from UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies In this Life in the Fast Lane edition of Talk of the Bay, Kelly O'Brien talks about alternative fuels and other transportation issues with Timothy Lipman and Megan Smirty Ryerson from UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rhythms of Culture Rick Kleffel interviews members of Rhythms of Culture and they perform a few songs in the studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sociobiologist Rebecca D. Costa Kelly O'Brien interviews Rebecca D. Costa about her book "The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction". Costa addresses the systemic problems in modern civilization that are leading to economic, social, and political crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mary Heebner and Stephen Kessler / Assemblymember Bill Monning Artist Mary Heebner and writer Stephen Kessler talk about their exhibit Black Island/Isla Negra, a selection of work inspired by Pablo Neruda. Later in the show Rick talks to Assemblymember Bill Monning, representative of the 27th district. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Mind- Body Mood Solution Jeffrey Rossman, PhD talks about his book, The Mind- Body Mood Solution: The Breakthrough Drug-Free Program for Lasting Relief from Depression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Marine Biologist Steve Palumbi Dr. Steven Palumbi talks about his book "The Death and Life of the Monterey Bay". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Buying an Electric Car? Buying an Electric Car? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Segments: 3 Pens: O'Neill Sea Odyssey, Save Our Shores Two Segments: 3 Pens: O'Neill Sea Odyssey, Save Our Shores Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Report from the L.A. Auto Show Kelly O'Brien visits the L.A. Auto Show where hybrid cars and alternative automotive technologies are showcased. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Miracle on 34th Street Discussion and Follow Your Heart Action Network's Curtis Reliford Rick Kleffel and others discuss the local production of the play Miracle on 34th Street. Later Rick talks to Curtis Reliford of the Follow Your Heart Action Network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Talk with Penny Ice Creamery Owners and Swimmer Bruckner Chase A Talk with Penny Ice Creamery Owners and Swimmer Bruckner Chase Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | More on Electric Cars - with Jay Friedland More on Electric Cars - with Jay Friedland Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz Gary Young Rick Kleffel interviews UC Santa Cruz humanities lecturer and inaugural poet laureate Gary Young. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Music Director and Conductor Paul Goodwin Kelly O'Brien interviews Carmel Bach Festival director Paul Goodwin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Take Back Santa Cruz and Nobody's Home Project Rick Kleffel interviews representatives from Take Back Santa Cruz and Nodbody's Home Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Belle Yang Rick Kleffel interviews author Belle Yang. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle Kelly O'Brien interviews oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Role of Sports Departments Within Universities Kelly O'Brien speaks with Shannon Kelley, Jackie Schuman, and Chad Nash about student athletics departments in universities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Talking About Writing w/ Lauren Mari-Navarro Talking About Writing w/ Lauren Mari-Navarro Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jean-Michel Cousteau + BLUE Ocean Film Festival Jean-Michel Cousteau + BLUE Ocean Film Festivaly Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ocean Health in Monterey Bay Ocean Health in Monterey Bay Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview w/ Film Producer Mark Shelley Interview w/ Film Producer Mark Shelley Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Debate! State Senate District 15 Debate! State Senate District 15 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Independent Candidate Jim Fitzgerald - Calif. 15th Independent Candidate Jim Fitzgerald - Calif. 15th Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poetry and Politics Poetry and Politics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | State Senate Candidate John Laird State Senate Candidate John Laird Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blue Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit Blue Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dan Haifley and Emily Glanville on Ocean Habitat Dan Haifley and Emily Glanville on Ocean Habitat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Save Our Shores Helps with Clean Up Save Our Shores Helps with Clean Up Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lifeguard Budgets / Vehicle Design Lifeguard Budgets / Vehicle Design Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cast and crew of Cabrillo Performance of "Cabaret" Cast and Crew of Cabrillo Performance of "Cabaret" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Talking About Electric Vehicles Talking About Electric Vehicles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Productions at Cabrillo College and Shakepeare SC Productions at Cabrillo College and Shakepeare SC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blue Ocean Film Festival Blue Ocean Film Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Save the Whales Day - Repeat broadcast Save the Whales Day - Repeat broadcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Status Quo of Unplanned Pregnancy The Status Quo of Unplanned Pregnancy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dave Isey's StoryCorp "Mom". Also, students from Mt. Madonna School Dave Isey's StoryCorp "Mom". Also, students from Mt. Madonna School Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carmel Bach Festival with David Gordon Carmel Bach Festival with David Gordon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Creating Defensible Space Against Wildfires Creating Defensible Space Against Wildfires Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Real Work Film Festival The Real Work Film Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carmel Bach Festival 2010 Carmel Bach Festival 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Second Harvest Food Bank The options available from the Second Harvest Food Bank; and just in time for April 15, a conversation with Enrolled Agent Cynthia Leachmore about starting your own business. Should you incorporate, or form an LLC? Find out how the IRS can help you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Public Health Service Home and Abroad Public Health Service Home and Abroad Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bryant Austin's Marine Photography Host Kelly O'Brien interviews Scotts Valley resident Bryant Austin a marine photographers who creates high-resolution, life-size photographs of endangered whale species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Play Beyond Therapy / Desalination Update Join Rick with some of the people involved with the play "Beyond Therapy", now playing at the Actor's Theater. And then get the lowdown on the Desal Plan for the Central Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Proper Maintenence of the Los Padres National Forest Proper Maintenence of the Los Padres National Forest Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview with Congressman Sam Farr Interview with Congressman Sam Farr Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Transition Movement The Transition Movement Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Will Aerial Spraying Return? Will Aerial Spraying Return? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Preparing for Death Preparing for Death Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Conversation About SNAP, VITA and Food Stamps Host Kelly O'Brien talks about local low carbon businesses with Neil Seiki, the founder of Zero Motorcycles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Low Carbon Economy Host Kelly O'Brien talks about local low carbon businesses with Neil Seiki, the founder of Zero Motorcycles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Artificial Intelegence and the Singularity Artificial Intelegence and the Singularity with Michael Anissimov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Assemblyman Bill Monning and Mayor Jim Reed Assemblyman Bill Monning and Scotts Valley Mayor Jim Reed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Alternative Ideas for Giving Alternative Ideas for Giving Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fish Hatcheries and more from DA Tamala Harris Fish Hatcheries and more from DA Tamala Harris Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversation Newly-Elected Officials of Watsonville Conversation Newly-Elected Officials of Watsonville Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Choosing Your Next Fuel Efficient Vehicle Talk of the Bay - Choosing Your Next Fuel Efficient Vehicle Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Talking More About Water Talk of the Bay - Talking More About Water Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carmel Valley Debates Incorporation Talk of the Bay - Carmel Valley Debates Incorporation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Water - Managing What We Have Talk of the Bay - Water - Managing What We Have Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The place of athletics in higher education? Talk of the Bay - Kelly O'Brien examines university athletics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Twilight Zone III and and Shakespeare Santa Cruz Production of The Diaries of Adam and Eve Twilight Zone III and and Shakespeare Santa Cruz Production of The Diaries of Adam and Eve Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | GMO's and the Organic Farm Host Kelly O'Brien discusses issues, concerns of GMO's including the perspective of two organic farmers from Carmel Valley, who join her on the program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The New VAPA Complex at Cabrillo College Host Rick Kleffel talks more with Wilma Marcus Chandler and Dan Martinez about new things at Cabrillo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The New Art Village at Cabrillo and a Report from Sanger Paranormal Host Rick Kleffel discusses Cabrillo College's new Art Village with Jana Marcus and Daniel Martinez. Then he speaks with Jeffrey Gonzales of Sanger Paranormal Society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Plug-ins and Choices Host Kelly O'Brien discusses electic vehicles - where we are now and where we're going - with Jay Friedland from Plug-in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Community Redevelopment and Health Care Rick Kleffel speaks with John Leopold about Five Year Plan for the Santa Cruz County Redevelopment Agency. We'll also hear from Congressman Sam Farr about health care and the economic recovery in Santa Cruz county. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bike Safety and Duets of Broadway Host Rick Kleffel explores transportation alternatives and bicycle safety with members of PedX and People Power. Duets of Broadway bring a dose of drama to the second half of the show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Defining Sustainability Kelly O'Brien welcomes guests Jane Parker, Forest District Supervisor of Monterey County, and Michael Kinsley, senior consultant at Rocky Mountain Institute, in a discussion to get to the heart of what sustainability means for our community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salinas Crime and Shakespeare Santa Cruz Salinas Police Chief, Louis Fetherolf, joins the show today to voice his concerns and opinions about the up hill battle. In part two - what it is like behind the scenes of a Santa Cruz Shakespeare play production. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carmel to Incorporate as a Town? Residents of Carmel Valley will be faced with an upcoming vote decision, Measure G, which would incorporate Carmel Valley into a town. This show invites members from both sides to explore the decision at hand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussing Gang Violence in Salinas, California Alice Vecchiola hosts a call-in program about the alarming rise of gang violence in Salinas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Electric Powered Vehicles Host Kelly O'Brien discusses electic vehicles - Where we are now and where we're going - with two local guests Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Family Fundamentalism Rick Kleffel invites Author Jeff Sharlet to speak about his book: "The Family, The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" which follows an exclusive Christian sect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | National Healthcare Controversy The issue of healthcare is becoming increasingly heated in Washington D.C. - what will this mean for us locally? Local professionals from both sides voice their cases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Gun Violence Host Alice Vecchiola invites three major players of Shakespeare Santa Cruz to discuss the upcoming season. In part two, congresswoman and former Mayor of Salinas, Anna Caballero joins us to speak about measures to reduce gun violence in Salinas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | State Parks, Medical Marijuana and Wildfires First, reactions to the governor's recent proposal to close state parks. Local politican Fred Keeley and Bonny Hawley of Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks join the discussion. Next, the latest on the Morro Bay medical marijuana arrest. Finally, some reflections on the anniversary of the Martin wildfire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Medical Benefits Down, Fundraiser Up A recent legislature passage permits certain medical benefits to be cut out of the state budget, affecting mostly dental coverage. On another front, the Santa Cruz Actor's Theater is presenting a benefit variety show and our host Alice Vecchiola has the details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Talking Trash About the Ocean We would never do that, it's more like, talking about trash in the ocean. Host Rachel Anne Goodman is in to talk with those people who work intimately with the preservation of the Pacific Ocean and know of other threats that face our wondrous ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Contesters of Politics and Producers of Theater Host Rick Kleffel first invokes a conversation about the political aspects of the war with author Robert Scheer and UCSC protestors who admonish against budget cuts. The show cools down in part two, speaking to actors in the local production of the ancient epic Indian poem, Ramayana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | California Fiscal Election May 19th The Governor is painting a morbid picture of what the election will bring about, but opposers claim that the proposition will not fix the problem. Experts John Layard, former State Assembly man, and John Myers visit guest host Brian Peterson to enlighten us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Avoiding Scams and then discussion of NextSpace Avoiding Scams and then discussion of NextSpace, a thriving co-working building in downtown Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Social Justice and Changing Marijuana Laws The annual social justice conference at Cabrillo is this Saturday, the 2nd of May - is social justice being achieved? In part two, host Alice Vecchiola converses with the founders of the Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana about the recent DEA enforcement rules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Follies of Immigration and the Future of Energy Host Rachel Anne Goodman examines the minute to the broad, and the local to the statewide effects of Immigration. In part two - how will the booming energy industry pan out? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The New Downtown Salinas and Disk Golf Course Alice Vecchiola discusses the redesign of downtown Salinas with the redevelopment director. In part two, a founding father sort and a world champion of disc golf discuss the sport alongside the new course in Pinto Lake, Watsonville. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Agricultural History Rachel Anne Goodman explores some little-known local history with Donna Mekis and Kathryn Mekis Miller, whose book Blossoms Into Gold is a historical account of the role of Croatian immigrants in California's apple industry. Nita Gizdich of Gizdich Ranch also joins the conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Home Brewery and Santa Cruz Film Festival Once illegal, home brewing has become a populous hobby. Alice Vecchiola speaks with two members of a Santa Cruz home beer brewing club. In part two, Alice speaks with the founder, a director, and an actor featured in the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Child Abuse Prevention Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with Susan True, Director of First Five, about the upcoming child abuse prevention month. Find out how Santa Cruz is addressing awareness and info on further upcoming events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Garbage in our Oceans Guest host Alice Vecchiola interviews four heads of coastal organizations: International Coastal Cleanup, Santa Cruz Surfriders Foundation, and Save Our Shores. The amount of trash in the ocean may astound you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jobs, The Bailout Package, and Newspapers In part one, consultants Christine Lambden and Casey Conner discuss how to land a job. Part two presents the inside swoop on what the bailout means to us Californians. Part three weighs the future of the newspaper industry which seems to have fallen oh so ill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dead Seabird Mystery A scientist reveals the recent mystery of dying and dead seabirds all along the coast. In part two, Peggy Flynn, author of 'Care Giving Zone' shares how to better take care those family members who are aged and ill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Art and Activism Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with two guests: Mary McCaslin, a local singer and songwriter, and Sylvia Quarles, the new president of the Monterey County branch of the NAACP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Personal Post-War Struggle DJ Skelton, commander of Echo Company 229th Military Intelligence Battalion defense language institute of foreign language in Monterey, is a strategist and activist for wounded soldiers - with his published book 'Our Hero Handbook'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Personal Post-War Struggle DJ Skelton, commander of Echo Company 229th Military Intelligence Battalion defense language institute of foreign language in Monterey, is a strategist and activist for wounded soldiers - with his published book 'Our Hero Handbook'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Stimulus Package An hourlong call-in town hall meeting with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo about the economic stimulus package and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Stimulus Package An hourlong call-in town hall meeting with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo about the economic stimulus package and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Celebrations Come get sworn in as 'we the people' on the Courthouse steps! Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Celebrations Come get sworn in as 'we the people' on the Courthouse steps! Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Honorary Gail Rich Award This award, which was named after somewhat of a 'renaissance woman' in the arts of Santa Cruz, was recently awarded to a handful of artists - marking the 13th annual occasion of the event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Honorary Gail Rich Award This award, which was named after somewhat of a 'renaissance woman' in the arts of Santa Cruz, was recently awarded to a handful of artists - marking the 13th annual occasion of the event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Money First, some personal financial advice from Mark Zaifman, who contributed to Your Money Or Your Life, a guide to achieving financial independence. Then, a look back at the best and worst films of 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Money First, some personal financial advice from Mark Zaifman, who contributed to Your Money Or Your Life, a guide to achieving financial independence. Then, a look back at the best and worst films of 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Students Report Out of the goodness of the holiday season, Rachel Anne Goodman shares with you some radio reports produced by students of 'Radio Journalism' - Instructed by Rachel herself. Topics spectrum from local political activism to holiday shopping catastrophe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Students Report Out of the goodness of the holiday season, Rachel Anne Goodman shares with you some radio reports produced by students of 'Radio Journalism' - Instructed by Rachel herself. Topics spectrum from local political activism to holiday shopping catastrophe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cuts Must Happen Santa Cruz public programs face an immediate threat from the city's tight budget. Now board members are faced with the obligitory task of cutting programs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cuts Must Happen Santa Cruz public programs face an immediate threat from the city's tight budget. Now board members are faced with the obligitory task of cutting programs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where's the Humor in the Election? Calvin Trillin will tell you. Author of many memoirs and A Heck of a Job, Calvin is in the studio fresh from a reading at the Capitola Book Cafe for yet another reading of Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where's the Humor in the Election? Calvin Trillin will tell you. Author of many memoirs and A Heck of a Job, Calvin is in the studio fresh from a reading at the Capitola Book Cafe for yet another reading of Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health of the Ocean How exactly is mother ocean's health persisting amongst the world's industrialization? Marine Biologist Wallace J. Nichols visits to answer this question and to discuss his most recent works on sea turtles. The waves of the ocean in danger? Suprising, certainly - listen to find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health of the Ocean How exactly is mother ocean's health persisting amongst the world's industrialization? Marine Biologist Wallace J. Nichols visits to answer this question and to discuss his most recent works on sea turtles. The waves of the ocean in danger? Suprising, certainly - listen to find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thanksgiving Recipes, ideas and tips from some local foodies to help you with your Thanksgiving preparations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thanksgiving Recipes, ideas and tips from some local foodies to help you with your Thanksgiving preparations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Top 25 Most Censored Stories of 2008 First, a look back at what didn't make the news in 2008, with Project Censored. Next, Mayor Ryan Coonerty talks about what's ahead for the city of Santa Cruz. Finally, a conversation with a local National Geographic photographer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Top 25 Most Censored Stories of 2008 First, a look back at what didn't make the news in 2008, with Project Censored. Next, Mayor Ryan Coonerty talks about what's ahead for the city of Santa Cruz. Finally, a conversation with a local National Geographic photographer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Proposition 8: What's Ahead A look at the legal implications of the passage of California's Proposition 8. Also, Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with Jeremiah Ridgeway, photographer and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Proposition 8: What's Ahead A look at the legal implications of the passage of California's Proposition 8. Also, Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with Jeremiah Ridgeway, photographer and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Election Expectations Preview of perhaps one of the most important elections in modern history. Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with person in charge of elections in Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Election Expectations Preview of perhaps one of the most important elections in modern history. Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with person in charge of elections in Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Propositions and Obama's Organization Discussion and opinion of the California propositions with treasurer of Santa Cruz County. Then, a discussion with author of 'Beyond the Fields'; an analysis of the organization used in Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement. How are these strategies similarly used in Obama's campaign? Have a listen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Propositions and Obama's Organization Discussion and opinion of the California propositions with treasurer of Santa Cruz County. Then, a discussion with author of 'Beyond the Fields'; an analysis of the organization used in Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement. How are these strategies similarly used in Obama's campaign? Have a listen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jobs in the Now Here's something important, jobs. In this time of financial turmoil, a professor of economics will discuss anything in the job sphere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jobs in the Now Here's something important, jobs. In this time of financial turmoil, a professor of economics will discuss anything in the job sphere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Politics of Politics: The Election A former senator and author talks about the election in general as well as a UCSC Political Science professor's thoughts about the Iraq conflict in the election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Politics of Politics: The Election A former senator and author talks about the election in general as well as a UCSC Political Science professor's thoughts about the Iraq conflict in the election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Credit Crunch Hitting Home Rachel Anne Goodman holds an open discussion about how the credit crisis is affecting your neignborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Credit Crunch Hitting Home Rachel Anne Goodman holds an open discussion about how the credit crisis is affecting your neignborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Economic Bailout's Effect on Local Real Estate Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the economic situation with brokers from Bailey Properties and Keller Williams, also a columnist writer working with Pacific Inland Home Mortgage. Additionally, the effect on loans is discussed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Economic Bailout's Effect on Local Real Estate Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the economic situation with brokers from Bailey Properties and Keller Williams, also a columnist writer working with Pacific Inland Home Mortgage. Additionally, the effect on loans is discussed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fire Aftermaths - Response and Threats of Landslides Discussion about response times to local fires and then the threats of possible landslides in Big Sur. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fire Aftermaths - Response and Threats of Landslides Discussion about response times to local fires and then the threats of possible landslides in Big Sur. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gay Pride in Watsonville Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with organizers of the first- ever Watsonville gay pride parade this weekend and discusses the importance of openness in Watsonville. She also takes a look back at KUSP's Live at Lunch over the years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gay Pride in Watsonville Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with organizers of the first- ever Watsonville gay pride parade this weekend and discusses the importance of openness in Watsonville. She also takes a look back at KUSP's Live at Lunch over the years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Call-In Show About Programming Changes KUSP General Manager Terry Green and Talk and Information Producer JD Hillard engage in a listener call-in regarding the new programming changes at KUSP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Call-In Show About Programming Changes KUSP General Manager Terry Green and Talk and Information Producer JD Hillard engage in a listener call-in regarding the new programming changes at KUSP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Persuasive Language on Capitol Hill UC Berkeley Linguist George Lakoff explains what language he thinks Democrats will have to use in order to win the White House. KUSP's Deanna Zachary hosts. Also Deanna Zachary discusses her 8 years of work on Talk of the Bay with producer J.D. Hillard . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Persuasive Language on Capitol Hill UC Berkeley Linguist George Lakoff explains what language he thinks Democrats will have to use in order to win the White House. KUSP's Deanna Zachary hosts. Also Deanna Zachary discusses her 8 years of work on Talk of the Bay with producer J.D. Hillard . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wine or Beer? Rick Kleffel speaks with Charles Bamforth, author of Grape vs. Grain, who weighs in on the pros and cons of beer vs. wine. Then on Life Under the Lights, Alice Vecchiola speaks with the director, translator, and cast members of the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Fringe Show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wine or Beer? Rick Kleffel speaks with Charles Bamforth, author of Grape vs. Grain, who weighs in on the pros and cons of beer vs. wine. Then on Life Under the Lights, Alice Vecchiola speaks with the director, translator, and cast members of the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Fringe Show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Curt Tofteland: Shakespeare Behind Bars KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Curt Tofteland, director of Shakespeare Behind Bars, a prison arts program in La Grange, Kentucky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Curt Tofteland: Shakespeare Behind Bars KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Curt Tofteland, director of Shakespeare Behind Bars, a prison arts program in La Grange, Kentucky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Barbara Ehrenreich Rick Kleffel speaks with Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book 'This Land is Their Land' and the on-going deterioration of what was once great about America. On Life Under the Lights, it's the men and the music behind the Shakespeare Santa Cruz production of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This". Then, Rick Kleffel interviews Members Only, the 80's cover band that greets playgoers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Barbara Ehrenreich Rick Kleffel speaks with Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book 'This Land is Their Land' and the on-going deterioration of what was once great about America. On Life Under the Lights, it's the men and the music behind the Shakespeare Santa Cruz production of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This". Then, Rick Kleffel interviews Members Only, the 80's cover band that greets playgoers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Citenzenship Ceremony and Fire Bombings Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the naturalization ceremony that took place today in San Jose, where over 10,000 people became U.S. citizens. Then she discusses the UCSC faculty fire bombings with animal rights activists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Citenzenship Ceremony and Fire Bombings Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the naturalization ceremony that took place today in San Jose, where over 10,000 people became U.S. citizens. Then she discusses the UCSC faculty fire bombings with animal rights activists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Race and Wealth Host Deanna Zachary discusses the connection between race and economic success with UCSC Professor Rob Fairley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Race and Wealth Host Deanna Zachary discusses the connection between race and economic success with UCSC Professor Rob Fairley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Stone: Remembering the 60's Robert Pollie talks to novelist Robert Stone about his memoir, "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties." One of the premier novelists to come out of the 1960's looks back on the rise of psychedelia, his friendship with Ken Kesey, the birth of the counterculture and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Stone: Remembering the 60's Robert Pollie talks to novelist Robert Stone about his memoir, "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties." One of the premier novelists to come out of the 1960's looks back on the rise of psychedelia, his friendship with Ken Kesey, the birth of the counterculture and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Industrial Development in Monterey Bay The City of Santa Cruz this week approved a new industrial development, joining other communities in the region hoping to encourage clusters of new businesses in the Monterey Bay area. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman explores the concept of business clusters and the question of new construction on the water-strapped Central Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Industrial Development in Monterey Bay The City of Santa Cruz this week approved a new industrial development, joining other communities in the region hoping to encourage clusters of new businesses in the Monterey Bay area. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman explores the concept of business clusters and the question of new construction on the water-strapped Central Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Geek Speak KUSP's Rick Kleffel sits down with Geek Speak hosts Sean Cleveland and Lyle Troxell. Also, an interview with science fiction author Charles Stross. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Geek Speak KUSP's Rick Kleffel sits down with Geek Speak hosts Sean Cleveland and Lyle Troxell. Also, an interview with science fiction author Charles Stross. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Voices from the Cabrillo Music Festival Music and conversation with four featured artists from the 2008 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to composers Mason Bates, Eric Lindsay and Matthew Cmiel, as well as percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Voices from the Cabrillo Music Festival Music and conversation with four featured artists from the 2008 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to composers Mason Bates, Eric Lindsay and Matthew Cmiel, as well as percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Benjamin Wallace Rick Kleffel speaks with Benjamin Wallace about his book "The Billionaire's Vinegar." It's the story of the sale of a bottle of wine that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, or did it? It's also the intrigue that surrounds the auction of rare wines. On Life Under the Lights, Alice Vecchiola speaks with Tim Ocel of Shakespeare Santa Cruz and finds out if "All's Well That Ends Well." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Benjamin Wallace Rick Kleffel speaks with Benjamin Wallace about his book "The Billionaire's Vinegar." It's the story of the sale of a bottle of wine that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, or did it? It's also the intrigue that surrounds the auction of rare wines. On Life Under the Lights, Alice Vecchiola speaks with Tim Ocel of Shakespeare Santa Cruz and finds out if "All's Well That Ends Well." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Somebody Call 911! Funding 911 services in Santa Cruz County. JD HIllard discusses the issue with the Vice Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, Cynthia Mathews. Later in the show, author Kevin Phillips complains about the debt buildup in the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Somebody Call 911! Funding 911 services in Santa Cruz County. JD HIllard discusses the issue with the Vice Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, Cynthia Mathews. Later in the show, author Kevin Phillips complains about the debt buildup in the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Saving the Sierra Three stories about efforts to preserve rural communities in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It's "Saving the Sierra" from producers Catherine Stifter and Jesikah Maria Ross. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Saving the Sierra Three stories about efforts to preserve rural communities in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It's "Saving the Sierra" from producers Catherine Stifter and Jesikah Maria Ross. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Big Sur: After the Fires Stories of the Basin Complex Fire. Big Sur residents look back on the recent wildfires and consider the challenges ahead. Also, Steve Stucky of the San Francisco Zen Center describes the firefight to save the Tassajara monastery. Hosted by KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Big Sur: After the Fires Stories of the Basin Complex Fire. Big Sur residents look back on the recent wildfires and consider the challenges ahead. Also, Steve Stucky of the San Francisco Zen Center describes the firefight to save the Tassajara monastery. Hosted by KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ry Cooder Interview Robert Pollie interviews Ry Cooder in the KUSP studio. They discuss "The California Trilogy," Ry's collection of music and stories offering glimpses of California's past, people and politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ry Cooder Interview Robert Pollie interviews Ry Cooder in the KUSP studio. They discuss "The California Trilogy," Ry's collection of music and stories offering glimpses of California's past, people and politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Whitley Strieber Part one of a two-part conversation with author Whitley Strieber, about his horror novels including The Wolfen, The Hunger, and Communion. Then on Life under the Lights, members of the cast and crew from the Cabrillo production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Whitley Strieber Part one of a two-part conversation with author Whitley Strieber, about his horror novels including The Wolfen, The Hunger, and Communion. Then on Life under the Lights, members of the cast and crew from the Cabrillo production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Big Sur Fire Update Fighting fire with fire in Big Sur, and two participants in this weekend's Plein Aire Affair at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz explain why they like making art in the outdoors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Big Sur Fire Update Fighting fire with fire in Big Sur, and two participants in this weekend's Plein Aire Affair at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz explain why they like making art in the outdoors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Shakespeare Santa Cruz Host Deanna Zachary explores the upcoming season of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, featuring "Romeo and Juliet" and "All's Well That Ends Well." Also, an interview with "Bach at Leipzig" playwright Itamar Moses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Shakespeare Santa Cruz Host Deanna Zachary explores the upcoming season of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, featuring "Romeo and Juliet" and "All's Well That Ends Well." Also, an interview with "Bach at Leipzig" playwright Itamar Moses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sir Salman Rushdie Rick Kleffel speaks with Sir Salman Rushdie taped live at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz about his beginnings as a storyteller, his career in advertising, creating his Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children and his latest novel, The Enchantress of Florence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sir Salman Rushdie Rick Kleffel speaks with Sir Salman Rushdie taped live at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz about his beginnings as a storyteller, his career in advertising, creating his Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children and his latest novel, The Enchantress of Florence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Save Our Shores this Independence Day July 4th is one of the biggest tourist weekends of the summer and probably the messiest. Fred Keeley and Aleah Lawrence-Pine of Save Our Shores explain what's involved in cleaning up. Also a discussion of how to keep the holiday safe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Save Our Shores this Independence Day July 4th is one of the biggest tourist weekends of the summer and probably the messiest. Fred Keeley and Aleah Lawrence-Pine of Save Our Shores explain what's involved in cleaning up. Also a discussion of how to keep the holiday safe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grassroots Entrepreneurialism We offer an interview from our recent past: KUSP's Deanna Zachary discussing grassroots entrepreneurialism with progressive commentator Jim Hightower. Also J.D. Hillard takes a look into the 16 water projects kicked off in Santa Cruz County this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grassroots Entrepreneurialism We offer an interview from our recent past: KUSP's Deanna Zachary discussing grassroots entrepreneurialism with progressive commentator Jim Hightower. Also J.D. Hillard takes a look into the 16 water projects kicked off in Santa Cruz County this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Philosophy of Insults and Heckling Insults: Why we dish 'em out; why we can't take 'em. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Jerome Neu, UC Santa Cruz professor and author of "Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults." Then filmmaker Michael Addis discusses his documentary "Heckler," about the caustic relationship between entertainers, hecklers and cutthroat critics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Philosophy of Insults and Heckling Insults: Why we dish 'em out; why we can't take 'em. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Jerome Neu, UC Santa Cruz professor and author of "Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults." Then filmmaker Michael Addis discusses his documentary "Heckler," about the caustic relationship between entertainers, hecklers and cutthroat critics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Canine Conundrum in Monterey KUSP's Royce Fincher explores how Monterey Bay communities reconcile the enthusiasm of dog owners to use public spaces with the oppostion of those who prefer dog-free zones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Canine Conundrum in Monterey KUSP's Royce Fincher explores how Monterey Bay communities reconcile the enthusiasm of dog owners to use public spaces with the oppostion of those who prefer dog-free zones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Persuasive Language on Capitol Hill UC Berkeley Linguist George Lakoff explains what language he thinks Democrats will have to use in order to win the White House. KUSP's Deanna Zachary hosts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Persuasive Language on Capitol Hill UC Berkeley Linguist George Lakoff explains what language he thinks Democrats will have to use in order to win the White House. KUSP's Deanna Zachary hosts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Conversation with Novelist Andrew Sean Greer Writer Andrew Sean Greer discusses his latest novel, "The Story of A Marriage." It's a story of concealment and conformity set in 1950's-era San Francisco. KUSP's Robert Pollie hosts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Conversation with Novelist Andrew Sean Greer Writer Andrew Sean Greer discusses his latest novel, "The Story of A Marriage." It's a story of concealment and conformity set in 1950's-era San Francisco. KUSP's Robert Pollie hosts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Filmmakers Eric Thiermann and Jim Clark Local documentary filmmakers Eric Thiermann and Jim Clark join KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman. The team's next project follows two sea-plane pilots exploring Arctic waters opened by global warming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Filmmakers Eric Thiermann and Jim Clark Local documentary filmmakers Eric Thiermann and Jim Clark join KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman. The team's next project follows two sea-plane pilots exploring Arctic waters opened by global warming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Who Can You Trust? Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage's book about the imperial presidency and expansions in executive power under the Bush administration is out in paperback. He discusses the question of executive power among presidential candidates. Also local author Linda Stroh explains the effect of trust in relationships. Her book is Trust Rules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Who Can You Trust? Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage's book about the imperial presidency and expansions in executive power under the Bush administration is out in paperback. He discusses the question of executive power among presidential candidates. Also local author Linda Stroh explains the effect of trust in relationships. Her book is Trust Rules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Going to the Chapel JD Hillard talks with three same-sex couples who plan to marry as a result of the California law that legalized gay marriage last month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Going to the Chapel JD Hillard talks with three same-sex couples who plan to marry as a result of the California law that legalized gay marriage last month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Karen Joy Fowler Rick Kleffel speaks with Karen Joy Fowler, author of the bestselling novel The Jane Austen Book Club, about her new book, Wit's End, set in Santa Cruz. It's a mystery, a comedy, a gothic novel and metafictional meditation on characters, place and Holy City. Welcome to Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Author Karen Joy Fowler Rick Kleffel speaks with Karen Joy Fowler, author of the bestselling novel The Jane Austen Book Club, about her new book, Wit's End, set in Santa Cruz. It's a mystery, a comedy, a gothic novel and metafictional meditation on characters, place and Holy City. Welcome to Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Next Generation of Radio Journalists More produced features from Rachel Anne Goodman's Radio Journalism students from Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Next Generation of Radio Journalists More produced features from Rachel Anne Goodman's Radio Journalism students from Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Geek of all Geeks: William Gibson RIck Kleffel hosts a special edition of GeekSpeak with guest WIlliam Gibson. Gibson's 1982 novel Neuromancer invented cyberspace as we know it today; his new novel Spook Country offers a look at a present most of us cannot quite comprehend. William Gibson is joined by Sean Cleveland and Lyle Troxell of KUSP's GeekSpeak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Geek of all Geeks: William Gibson RIck Kleffel hosts a special edition of GeekSpeak with guest WIlliam Gibson. Gibson's 1982 novel Neuromancer invented cyberspace as we know it today; his new novel Spook Country offers a look at a present most of us cannot quite comprehend. William Gibson is joined by Sean Cleveland and Lyle Troxell of KUSP's GeekSpeak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Microcosm: Carl Zimmer on E. Coli What do humans have in common with bacteria? Nearly everything, according to science writer Carl Zimmer. He'll talk to KUSP's Robert Pollie about E. Coli and the new science of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Microcosm: Carl Zimmer on E. Coli What do humans have in common with bacteria? Nearly everything, according to science writer Carl Zimmer. He'll talk to KUSP's Robert Pollie about E. Coli and the new science of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Your Pesky Little Brother Rick Kleffel talks with blogger and activist Cory Doctorow about his new young adult novel, Little Brother, which looks at the erosion of our civil liberties in the wake of terrorism and offers concrete advice for HOW TO take them back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Your Pesky Little Brother Rick Kleffel talks with blogger and activist Cory Doctorow about his new young adult novel, Little Brother, which looks at the erosion of our civil liberties in the wake of terrorism and offers concrete advice for HOW TO take them back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After the Fire Corralitos area residents Tom Ross and Bill Leland lost homes in the Summit Fire, they join KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman to discuss their experiences and the recovery process. Also, several short features by Rachel's radio journalism students. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After the Fire Corralitos area residents Tom Ross and Bill Leland lost homes in the Summit Fire, they join KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman to discuss their experiences and the recovery process. Also, several short features by Rachel's radio journalism students. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where the Money Goes Exploring philanthropy from grassroots organizations to private foundations with host Deanna Zachary. Then she interviews students from Mt. Madonna School's presentation of the Ramayana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where the Money Goes Exploring philanthropy from grassroots organizations to private foundations with host Deanna Zachary. Then she interviews students from Mt. Madonna School's presentation of the Ramayana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Props 98 and 99 Proposition 98 may represent a revolution in the relationship between government and its citizens or merely a fair reading of the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution. Monterey County Farm Bureau head Bob Perkins and KUSP's Land Use Report producer Gary Patton sound off. Also Barbara Sprenger and Bill Monning, candidates for the Democratic nomination to the 27th district of the state assembly offer their thoughts on The American Idea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Props 98 and 99 Proposition 98 may represent a revolution in the relationship between government and its citizens or merely a fair reading of the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution. Monterey County Farm Bureau head Bob Perkins and KUSP's Land Use Report producer Gary Patton sound off. Also Barbara Sprenger and Bill Monning, candidates for the Democratic nomination to the 27th district of the state assembly offer their thoughts on The American Idea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Houston and Tom Killion Rick Kleffel speaks with James D. Houston and Tom Killion about Santa Cruz, literature of place and the literary history of Santa Cruz. Plus, Jeffrey Alford talks about traveling "Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Houston and Tom Killion Rick Kleffel speaks with James D. Houston and Tom Killion about Santa Cruz, literature of place and the literary history of Santa Cruz. Plus, Jeffrey Alford talks about traveling "Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Animal Rescue from the Summit Fire Santa Cruz County Animal Services Staff join KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman to relate their experiences rescuing animals from the fire. Also, Len Traubman explains how he helps advocates of Israel and Palestine make peace with one another. Then RideSpring founder, Paul McGrath, argues for old-fashioned carpooling to help reduce carbon emissions. Plus, 27th Assembly district candidates Reilly and Barkalow sound off in two episodes of the new commentary series The American Idea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Animal Rescue from the Summit Fire Santa Cruz County Animal Services Staff join KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman to relate their experiences rescuing animals from the fire. Also, Len Traubman explains how he helps advocates of Israel and Palestine make peace with one another. Then RideSpring founder, Paul McGrath, argues for old-fashioned carpooling to help reduce carbon emissions. Plus, 27th Assembly district candidates Reilly and Barkalow sound off in two episodes of the new commentary series The American Idea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Electric Car Host Deanna Zachary explores the future of the electric car with Kelly O'Brien of KUSP's Life in the Fast Lane. Then the KUSP film gang reviews the latest films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Electric Car Host Deanna Zachary explores the future of the electric car with Kelly O'Brien of KUSP's Life in the Fast Lane. Then the KUSP film gang reviews the latest films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Summit Fire Host Robert Pollie interviewed CAL Fire unit chief John Ferreira, on Sat. May 24. Also on the show is a Monday report from CAL Fire Batt. Chief and spokesman David Shue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Summit Fire Host Robert Pollie interviewed CAL Fire unit chief John Ferreira, on Sat. May 24. Also on the show is a Monday report from CAL Fire Batt. Chief and spokesman David Shue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Monumental Decision Host Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the recent California Supreme Court Decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. Also, frequent news updates from the fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains along Summit Road. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Monumental Decision Host Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the recent California Supreme Court Decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. Also, frequent news updates from the fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains along Summit Road. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Budget Crisis in California Host Deanna Zachary explores the California State Budget Crisis in California with Senator Jeff Denham, Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools Michael Watkins, and Assemblyman John Laird. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Budget Crisis in California Host Deanna Zachary explores the California State Budget Crisis in California with Senator Jeff Denham, Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools Michael Watkins, and Assemblyman John Laird. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Kasper Hauser Comedy Troupe The surreal, cerebral humor of San Francisco's Kasper Hauser Comedy Troupe. They laugh it up with KUSP's Robert Pollie and discuss their beginnings at Stanford University, the science of absurdity and their May 24th performance in Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Kasper Hauser Comedy Troupe The surreal, cerebral humor of San Francisco's Kasper Hauser Comedy Troupe. They laugh it up with KUSP's Robert Pollie and discuss their beginnings at Stanford University, the science of absurdity and their May 24th performance in Santa Cruz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Woman Behind the Apocalypse Rick Kleffel speaks with Eleanor Coppola, wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, who recently wrote the book Notes on a Life. Then Santa Cruz writer Seana Graham about her experiences writing for Script Frenzy, a web-based contest that aims to help writers create a 100 page film script in one month. Lastly, Justin Peacock about his novel A Cure for Night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Woman Behind the Apocalypse Rick Kleffel speaks with Eleanor Coppola, wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, who recently wrote the book Notes on a Life. Then Santa Cruz writer Seana Graham about her experiences writing for Script Frenzy, a web-based contest that aims to help writers create a 100 page film script in one month. Lastly, Justin Peacock about his novel A Cure for Night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Saving Our Local Libraries Host Rachel Anne Goodman discusses Measure R which, if passed, will fund local libraries in Santa Cruz. Later she talks to the artists and organizers of the River Arts Festival, held in Santa Cruz's San Lorenzo Park in May. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Saving Our Local Libraries Host Rachel Anne Goodman discusses Measure R which, if passed, will fund local libraries in Santa Cruz. Later she talks to the artists and organizers of the River Arts Festival, held in Santa Cruz's San Lorenzo Park in May. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Here Comes the Judge Host Royce Fincher interviews Superior Court judicial candidates for Monterey and Santa Cruz counties for the upcoming June primary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Here Comes the Judge Host Royce Fincher interviews Superior Court judicial candidates for Monterey and Santa Cruz counties for the upcoming June primary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Can You Trust Your Brain? Neuroscientist Robert Burton talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie about our brain's often-unjustified sense of self-certainty. Burton's latest book is "On Being Certain, Believing You Are Right, Even When You're Not." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Can You Trust Your Brain? Neuroscientist Robert Burton talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie about our brain's often-unjustified sense of self-certainty. Burton's latest book is "On Being Certain, Believing You Are Right, Even When You're Not." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Women Fighting Back Host Rick Kleffel talks to Jessica Queller, author of "Pretty is What Changes." Then he talks with comedienne and cancer survivor Rene Hicks about her role in the show, "Women's Voices: A Night of Comedy", a benefit put on for the women's cancer advocacy organization, WomenCare. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Women Fighting Back Host Rick Kleffel talks to Jessica Queller, author of "Pretty is What Changes." Then he talks with comedienne and cancer survivor Rene Hicks about her role in the show, "Women's Voices: A Night of Comedy", a benefit put on for the women's cancer advocacy organization, WomenCare. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nobel Winner Ben Santer Ben Santer a leader of the panel that shared in the Nobel prize awarded to Al Gore, lays out his argument that humans drive climate change. San Francisco political comic Will Durst and Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro discuss their upcoming performance and the state of poolitical humor. Maya Barsacq discusses the Three Penny Opera, presented this weekend by the Santa Cruz chamber Orchestra. With KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nobel Winner Ben Santer Ben Santer a leader of the panel that shared in the Nobel prize awarded to Al Gore, lays out his argument that humans drive climate change. San Francisco political comic Will Durst and Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro discuss their upcoming performance and the state of poolitical humor. Maya Barsacq discusses the Three Penny Opera, presented this weekend by the Santa Cruz chamber Orchestra. With KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | More on Replacing John Laird Royce fincher continues his interviews with candidates for the Democratic nomination to replace 27th district Assembly Member John Laird. Today: Bill Monning and Barbara Sprenger. Interviews with Stephen Barkalow and Emily Reilly aired May 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | More on Replacing John Laird Royce fincher continues his interviews with candidates for the Democratic nomination to replace 27th district Assembly Member John Laird. Today: Bill Monning and Barbara Sprenger. Interviews with Stephen Barkalow and Emily Reilly aired May 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jack Kerouac's Big Sur Jack Kerouac's Big Sur: the man, the place, the book and now the movie. In 1960 Kerouac spent six weeks in Big Sur and wrote what some consider his most powerful novel. A new film chronicling Jack Kerouac's time on the central coast gets a special screening at the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Film maker Curt Worden talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jack Kerouac's Big Sur Jack Kerouac's Big Sur: the man, the place, the book and now the movie. In 1960 Kerouac spent six weeks in Big Sur and wrote what some consider his most powerful novel. A new film chronicling Jack Kerouac's time on the central coast gets a special screening at the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Film maker Curt Worden talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Replacing John Laird On June 3 Monterey Bay area democrats will choose which of four candidate to run in the November election to replace the termed out John Laird. Royce Fincher interview Stephen Barkalow and Emily Reilly. Tuesday May 6, we present interviews with Bill Monning and Barbara Sprenger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Replacing John Laird On June 3 Monterey Bay area democrats will choose which of four candidate to run in the November election to replace the termed out John Laird. Royce Fincher interview Stephen Barkalow and Emily Reilly. Tuesday May 6, we present interviews with Bill Monning and Barbara Sprenger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | These American Lives This American Life host Ira Glass joins KUSP's Robert Pollie to discuss Thursday's live performance. Also the story of a man who rode his bike to Washington and found a nation despondent about politics, with Royce Fincher. Also a discussion about rebuilding Pajaro River levees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | These American Lives This American Life host Ira Glass joins KUSP's Robert Pollie to discuss Thursday's live performance. Also the story of a man who rode his bike to Washington and found a nation despondent about politics, with Royce Fincher. Also a discussion about rebuilding Pajaro River levees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Music in May "Music in May" - free chamber music concerts. "Bra boys", a documentary depicting an Australian surfing tribe. How medicaid cuts could hurt California's economy., with host J.D. Hillard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Music in May "Music in May" - free chamber music concerts. "Bra boys", a documentary depicting an Australian surfing tribe. How medicaid cuts could hurt California's economy., with host J.D. Hillard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reel Work, Reel Films A cinematic look at labor struggles old and new. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman welcomes the filmmakers behind "Pete Seeger: Power of Song" and "Secrets of Silicon Valley." Both films are included in the upcoming Reel Works Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reel Work, Reel Films A cinematic look at labor struggles old and new. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman welcomes the filmmakers behind "Pete Seeger: Power of Song" and "Secrets of Silicon Valley." Both films are included in the upcoming Reel Works Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hightower: New Ways to Farm Host Deanna Zachary welcomes Jim Hightower, author of Swim Against the Current. He'll talk about how Central Coast farmers are breaking away from corporate agriculture to farm in new ways. Then a discussion with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth who are part of the 2008 Queer Youth Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hightower: New Ways to Farm Host Deanna Zachary welcomes Jim Hightower, author of Swim Against the Current. He'll talk about how Central Coast farmers are breaking away from corporate agriculture to farm in new ways. Then a discussion with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth who are part of the 2008 Queer Youth Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Masculinity and Hip-Hop KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to gender activist and film maker Byron Hurt about his latest documentary, "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," which takes a critical look at masculinity and sexism in hip-hop music and popular culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Masculinity and Hip-Hop KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to gender activist and film maker Byron Hurt about his latest documentary, "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," which takes a critical look at masculinity and sexism in hip-hop music and popular culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where the Light Takes its Color From the Sea "Farewell to Manzanar" author James Houston reads from his latest collection of writing "Where the Light Takes it's Color from the Sea." Also wildlife filmmakers Karen and Kennan Ward spin tales from the filming of their latest work "Endangered." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where the Light Takes its Color From the Sea "Farewell to Manzanar" author James Houston reads from his latest collection of writing "Where the Light Takes it's Color from the Sea." Also wildlife filmmakers Karen and Kennan Ward spin tales from the filming of their latest work "Endangered." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fishing Canceled Santa Cruz Commercial Fishermen's association President Mike Stiller explains the far reach of the closure of the salmon season. Also California Certified Organic Farmers Executive Director Peggy Meiers tells how the organization dropped its support for spraying against the light brown apple moth. Plus People Power's Micah Posner outlines Wednesday's Santa Cruz County supervisor candidates' forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fishing Canceled Santa Cruz Commercial Fishermen's association President Mike Stiller explains the far reach of the closure of the salmon season. Also California Certified Organic Farmers Executive Director Peggy Meiers tells how the organization dropped its support for spraying against the light brown apple moth. Plus People Power's Micah Posner outlines Wednesday's Santa Cruz County supervisor candidates' forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Global Teacher Migration UC Santa Cruz professor Lora Bartlett has discovered a surprising new trend in American education: the recruitment of large numbers of foreign teachers to solve labor shortages in US public schools. She talks with KUSP's Robert Pollie about the impact of the global teacher migration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Global Teacher Migration UC Santa Cruz professor Lora Bartlett has discovered a surprising new trend in American education: the recruitment of large numbers of foreign teachers to solve labor shortages in US public schools. She talks with KUSP's Robert Pollie about the impact of the global teacher migration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Journey Through the Sierras KUSP's Rick Kleffel speaks with Tim Palmer about his book Luminous Mountains, his photographic journey through the Sierras. Later he invites Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang to discuss their book, Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Journey Through the Sierras KUSP's Rick Kleffel speaks with Tim Palmer about his book Luminous Mountains, his photographic journey through the Sierras. Later he invites Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang to discuss their book, Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Scott Simon and the Windy City KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman interviews NPR Host Scott Simon about his book, Windy City. Then Erin Digitale speaks with psychology professor Dominic Massaro about his creation, the multilingual computer program nicknamed "Baldy". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Scott Simon and the Windy City KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman interviews NPR Host Scott Simon about his book, Windy City. Then Erin Digitale speaks with psychology professor Dominic Massaro about his creation, the multilingual computer program nicknamed "Baldy". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wilderness Preservation on the Central Coast KUSP's Deanna Zachary examines the tension between development and wilderness preservation with Jean Brocklebank of Friends of Arana Gulch and Patricia Matejcek of the Sierra Club as well as UCSC professor Donna Harraway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wilderness Preservation on the Central Coast KUSP's Deanna Zachary examines the tension between development and wilderness preservation with Jean Brocklebank of Friends of Arana Gulch and Patricia Matejcek of the Sierra Club as well as UCSC professor Donna Harraway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Comedian Maria Bamford What's so funny about depression, anxiety and OCD? Comedian Maria Bamford discovers hilarity in some unlikely places. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to some of the voices in her head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Comedian Maria Bamford What's so funny about depression, anxiety and OCD? Comedian Maria Bamford discovers hilarity in some unlikely places. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to some of the voices in her head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking at Machiavelli's The Prince Rick Kleffel takes an in-depth look at the The Prince, the infamous book of political advice by Nicclo Machiavelli. We'll hear from Professor Albert Ascoli, translator Peter Constantine and Oxford English Dictionary Etymologist Dr. Katrin Thier. Was Machiavelli himself Machiavellian? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking at Machiavelli's The Prince Rick Kleffel takes an in-depth look at the The Prince, the infamous book of political advice by Nicclo Machiavelli. We'll hear from Professor Albert Ascoli, translator Peter Constantine and Oxford English Dictionary Etymologist Dr. Katrin Thier. Was Machiavelli himself Machiavellian? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Frans Lanting Host Rachel Anne Goodman interviews National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting. Later she discusses major cuts to the educational system on the Central Coast and statewide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Frans Lanting Host Rachel Anne Goodman interviews National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting. Later she discusses major cuts to the educational system on the Central Coast and statewide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Isabel Allende and Haifa Zangana Host Deanna Zachary interviews author Isabel Allende, presenting her latest work, The Sum of Our Days, and author Haifa Zangana, who talks about her book, City of Windows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Isabel Allende and Haifa Zangana Host Deanna Zachary interviews author Isabel Allende, presenting her latest work, The Sum of Our Days, and author Haifa Zangana, who talks about her book, City of Windows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bringing Arts to the California Prisons This week, the William James Association of Santa Cruz celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Prison Arts Project, bringing arts programs to the California state prisons. KUSP's Robert Pollie speaks to key participants, including instructors and inmates, about the history and impact of the project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bringing Arts to the California Prisons This week, the William James Association of Santa Cruz celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Prison Arts Project, bringing arts programs to the California state prisons. KUSP's Robert Pollie speaks to key participants, including instructors and inmates, about the history and impact of the project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paolo Bacigalupi on Writing Science Fiction Host Rick Kleffel speaks with science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi about his work, and discusses the economics of small-press publishing with his publisher, Jeremy Lassen. Then he invites environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis to speak about the way in which her work informs the science fiction in Paulo's writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussuin with ethicist John Berteau Discussion of the apple moths and ethichs with John Berteau and host Erin Digitale. Then Pajaro Middle School's emergence from No Child Left Behind with host Emily Quirk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paolo Bacigalupi on Writing Science Fiction Host Rick Kleffel speaks with science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi about his work, and discusses the economics of small-press publishing with his publisher, Jeremy Lassen. Then he invites environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis to speak about the way in which her work informs the science fiction in Paulo's writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Controlling the Story Political Scientist Cynthia Daniels discusses scientists' failure to consider the vulnerability of men's genes with KUSP's Erin Digitale. Then State Primary Entymologist Kevin Hoffman responds to a report suggesting light brown apple moths will cause little damage. Also a discussion of the Steinbeck Center's public readings of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Math of Living Things A theoretical physicist takes on biology. Santa Fe Institute president Geoffrey West describes some simple mathematical rules that may explain everything from the length of our lives to the health of our cities. He talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Math of Living Things A theoretical physicist takes on biology. Santa Fe Institute president Geoffrey West describes some simple mathematical rules that may explain everything from the length of our lives to the health of our cities. He talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Biography on Alice Waters and Chez Panisse Rick Kleffel speaks with nature writer Thomas McNamee about his new biography, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. After that, humorist and children's poet Alan Katz about his new book "Oops!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Controlling the Story Political Scientist Cynthia Daniels discusses scientists' failure to consider the vulnerability of men's genes with KUSP's Erin Digitale. Then State Primary Entymologist Kevin Hoffman responds to a report suggesting light brown apple moths will cause little damage. Also a discussion of the Steinbeck Center's public readings of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Biography on Alice Waters and Chez Panisse Rick Kleffel speaks with nature writer Thomas McNamee about his new biography, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. After that, humorist and children's poet Alan Katz about his new book "Oops!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Apple Moth and Saving the Sand Hills Rachel Anne Goodman investigates the apple moth and its threat to our crops. John Laird and agriculturalists from New Zealand and Mexico discuss. Then the project to save the Sandhills, a Central Coast ecosystem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Apple Moth and Saving the Sand Hills Rachel Anne Goodman investigates the apple moth and its threat to our crops. John Laird and agriculturalists from New Zealand and Mexico discuss. Then the project to save the Sandhills, a Central Coast ecosystem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jim Hightower - Swim Against the Current Jim Hightower joins Deanna Zachary to discuss his new book "Swim Against the Current." Then a look at how the foreclosure crisis is leading to neglected and abused pets as people leave behind their homes and their animals. And a peak at the new "Buy Local" movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jim Hightower - Swim Against the Current Jim Hightower joins Deanna Zachary to discuss his new book "Swim Against the Current." Then a look at how the foreclosure crisis is leading to neglected and abused pets as people leave behind their homes and their animals. And a peak at the new "Buy Local" movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Lohdown on Science Humorist, writer and public radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh. She'll discuss her eccentric father, her performance career, motherhood and the American public schools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Lohdown on Science Humorist, writer and public radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh. She'll discuss her eccentric father, her performance career, motherhood and the American public schools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lou Dobbs v. Coonerty Digging into the roots of the dust-up between Central Coast politicians and CNN anchor Lou Dobbs. Also: preventing the next oil spill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lou Dobbs v. Coonerty Digging into the roots of the dust-up between Central Coast politicians and CNN anchor Lou Dobbs. Also: preventing the next oil spill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Impact of Recession on Local Targeted Families The sub prime loan debacle has a unique impact on local Latino families on the Central Coast. Also on the show, with a severe drop in the number of salmon returning to spawn, host Deanna Zachary explores the potential collapse of the salmon fisheries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Impact of Recession on Local Targeted Families The sub prime loan debacle has a unique impact on local Latino families on the Central Coast. Also on the show, with a severe drop in the number of salmon returning to spawn, host Deanna Zachary explores the potential collapse of the salmon fisheries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jill Bolte Taylor on Her "Stroke of Insight" pA surprisingly happy story about brain injury. Ten years ago, neuroscientist Jill Taylor watched her own mind disintegrate following a massive stroke. She now regards it as one of the great learning experiences of her life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jill Bolte Taylor on Her "Stroke of Insight" pA surprisingly happy story about brain injury. Ten years ago, neuroscientist Jill Taylor watched her own mind disintegrate following a massive stroke. She now regards it as one of the great learning experiences of her life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | KUSP Call-In: Defining Program Service Listeners share their perspectives about programming choices in the call-in hosted by KUSP General Manager Terry Green, with Rob Mullen and Dennis Morton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | KUSP Call-In: Defining Program Service Join KUSP General Manager, with Rob Mullen and Dennis Morton, as they take listener calls about programming choices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Morton Marcus and his Memoirs Prolific local poet speaks about his new literary memoir, "Striking Through the Masks". Also Richard Stockton talks to host Rachel Anne Goodman about his upcoming "Planet Cruz Comedy Hour." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Morton Marcus and his Memoirs Prolific local poet speaks about his new literary memoir, "Striking Through the Masks". Also Richard Stockton talks to host Rachel Anne Goodman about his upcoming "Planet Cruz Comedy Hour." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Race in American Electoral Politics Professor and politcal activist Francis Fox Piven about some of her book topics ranging from attemempts to marginalize the black vote; and the domestic costs of the war in Iraq. Also on the show, Angela Flynn, director of "Earth Vision". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Race in American Electoral Politics Professor and politcal activist Francis Fox Piven about some of her book topics ranging from attemempts to marginalize the black vote; and the domestic costs of the war in Iraq. Also on the show, Angela Flynn, director of "Earth Vision". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Econ 101 KUSP's Robert Pollie gets a remedial course in economics from UC Santa Cruz professor and former Federal Reserve economist Michael Hutchison. What's a recession? What makes economies rise and fall? Robert asks the dumb questions to you don't have to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Econ 101 KUSP's Robert Pollie gets a remedial course in economics from UC Santa Cruz professor and former Federal Reserve economist Michael Hutchison. What's a recession? What makes economies rise and fall? Robert asks the dumb questions to you don't have to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Inside Publishing - An Author and His Editor Toby Barlow about his book "Sharp Teeth". It's an epic love story of werewolves and meth labs in Los Angeles; then we talk to his editor at publisher HarperCollins, Jennifer Barth. Hosted by Rick Kleffel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Inside Publishing - An Author and His Editor Toby Barlow about his book "Sharp Teeth". It's an epic love story of werewolves and meth labs in Los Angeles; then we talk to his editor at publisher HarperCollins, Jennifer Barth. Hosted by Rick Kleffel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Revisiting Martin Luther King Jr's - Beyond Vietnam Reverend Deborah Johnson discusses Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Beyond Viet Nam" speech, the subject of a day-long symposium in Santa Cruz, with host Rachel Anne Goodman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Revisiting Martin Luther King Jr's - Beyond Vietnam Reverend Deborah Johnson discusses Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Beyond Viet Nam" speech, the subject of a day-long symposium in Santa Cruz, with host Rachel Anne Goodman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Viability of Local Media - KAZU and KUSP Talks Deanna Zachary examines the viability of local media with Tom Honig and Tom Thomas. Also John Laird and Terry Green speak about the strategic talks between KAZU and KUSP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Viability of Local Media - KAZU and KUSP Talks Deanna Zachary examines the viability of local media with Tom Honig and Tom Thomas. Also John Laird and Terry Green speak about the strategic talks between KAZU and KUSP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Real Mark Twain What Mark Twain's fiction tells us about him and about us. UC Santa Cruz professor Forrest Robinson looks behind the mask of America's favorite humorist and finds a troubled conscience, haunted by history. Hosted by KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Real Mark Twain What Mark Twain's fiction tells us about him and about us. UC Santa Cruz professor Forrest Robinson looks behind the mask of America's favorite humorist and finds a troubled conscience, haunted by history. Hosted by KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Commoner in the Japanese Royal Family Rick Kleffel speaks with John Burnham Schwartz about his novel, The Commoner. It's based on the true story of a commoner who married into the reclusive Japanese royal family in 1959. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Commoner in the Japanese Royal Family Rick Kleffel speaks with John Burnham Schwartz about his novel, The Commoner. It's based on the true story of a commoner who married into the reclusive Japanese royal family in 1959. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | County Transportation Funding and Salinas Teen Radio Santa Cruz County transportation commission director George Dondero discusses the failure of the county's transportation funding pla. Then a group of Salinas teens who produced a series of radio dramas for the Radio Bilingue network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | County Transportation Funding and Salinas Teen Radio Santa Cruz County transportation commission director George Dondero discusses the failure of the county's transportation funding pla. Then a group of Salinas teens who produced a series of radio dramas for the Radio Bilingue network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Natalie Goldberg on Writing Process writing guru Natalie Goldberg discusses her latest work. Then UCSC professor Paul Lubeck reviews the elections in Pakistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Natalie Goldberg on Writing Process writing guru Natalie Goldberg discusses her latest work. Then UCSC professor Paul Lubeck reviews the elections in Pakistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bata Music Goes Global Bata music, from Africa to the Americas. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to anthropologist Debbie Klein and master percussionist Michael Spiro about a centuries-old drum and dance tradition that lives on in Nigeria, Cuba and Brazil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bata Music Goes Global Bata music, from Africa to the Americas. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to anthropologist Debbie Klein and master percussionist Michael Spiro about a centuries-old drum and dance tradition that lives on in Nigeria, Cuba and Brazil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beautiful Children Rick Kleffel talks with Charles Bock about his first novel, "Beautiful Children," which took ten years to complete. It's a "Great American Novel" about missing children, their parents, Las Vegas and the pornography industry. Plus, get organized with professional organizer Shannon McGinnis and "The Ten Minute Tidy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beautiful Children Rick Kleffel talks with Charles Bock about his first novel, "Beautiful Children," which took ten years to complete. It's a "Great American Novel" about missing children, their parents, Las Vegas and the pornography industry. Plus, get organized with professional organizer Shannon McGinnis and "The Ten Minute Tidy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Panetta Assesses the Primaries Former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta handicaps the various candidates in their races for the presidency. Then Monterey County Transportation Agency Executive Director Debbie Hale lays out her agency's proposal to raie a billion dollars for local transportation with a 1/2 cent sales tax. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Panetta Assesses the Primaries Former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta handicaps the various candidates in their races for the presidency. Then Monterey County Transportation Agency Executive Director Debbie Hale lays out her agency's proposal to raie a billion dollars for local transportation with a 1/2 cent sales tax. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Super Tuesday Reactions UCSC Community Studies Professor Paul Ortiz discusses race and the primaries. George Dondero, Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission, explains what's in the county transportation plan. Then, Assembly Member John Laird responds to the failure of Prop. 93 and the now imminent end of his term representing the central coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Super Tuesday Reactions UCSC Community Studies Professor Paul Ortiz discusses race and the primaries. George Dondero, Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission, explains what's in the county transportation plan. Then, Assembly Member John Laird responds to the failure of Prop. 93 and the now imminent end of his term representing the central coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Elections on Talk of the Bay Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters walks us through the propositions. Also, local elections officials discuss vote accuracy measures. Then former Santa Cruz county Republicans chair Vic Marani and current Santa cruz County Democrats chair Zach Friend explain the intricacies of the primary process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Elections on Talk of the Bay Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters walks us through the propositions. Also, local elections officials discuss vote accuracy measures. Then former Santa Cruz county Republicans chair Vic Marani and current Santa cruz County Democrats chair Zach Friend explain the intricacies of the primary process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Our Inner Fish Fish stories with paleontologist Neil Shubin. Shubin describes our finny ancestors, the art of fossil hunting and his discovery of a key missing link between fish and land animals. Hosted by KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Our Inner Fish Fish stories with paleontologist Neil Shubin. Shubin describes our finny ancestors, the art of fossil hunting and his discovery of a key missing link between fish and land animals. Hosted by KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Self Improvwement, Unicorns and Orbs Three authors interviewed by Rick Kleffel. Beth Lisick - "Helping me help myself", Peter Beagle- "The Last Unicorn"- and Miceal Ledwith - "The Orb Project". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Self Improvwement, Unicorns and Orbs Three authors interviewed by Rick Kleffel. Beth Lisick - "Helping me help myself", Peter Beagle- "The Last Unicorn"- and Miceal Ledwith - "The Orb Project". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Who wins with Prop 92? Renowned nature photographer Franz Lanting discusses his new work on Albatrosses. then Cabrillo College President Brian King and California Teachers Association representative Erik Hines discuss pros and cons of Prop. 92. Finally Digital Media Factory's Gini Mitchell performs and reports on Santa Cruz's newest TV show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Learning to Forgive Former Stanford Forgiveness Project head Fred Luskin explores ways of forgiveness in his new book "Forgive for Love." With host Deanna Zachary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Still Grazing: The Life and Music of Hugh Masekela Jazz and pop legend Hugh Masekela talks about his life and music, his recovery from addiction, the fight against apartheid and his return to South Africa in this 2004 interview with KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mystery writer Laurie King Recorded call-in show with mystery writer Laurie King. Hosted by Rick Kleffel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gail Rich Awards for 2008 Santa Cruz resident and "Farewell to Manzanar" author Jeanne Houston discusses the work that earned her one of this year's Gail Rich awards. Fellow winners and renowned instrumentalists Shelly and Barry Phillips also join the discussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interviews from the Archive Rick Kleffel speaks with David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, the authors of "SEND: An Essential Guide to Email for Home and Office." Then, comedian Paula Poundstone talks with KUSP's Kelly O'Brien about her latest work and her humble beginnings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Different Take on Events in Pakistan Alternative Radio's David Barsamian has just returned from a month-long trip to Pakistan, where he traveled to the volatile North West Frontier Province. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Authors Vikram Chandra and Eric Webber interviewed Vikram Chandra talks about crime in India and his novel Sacred Games and NPR's Eric Weiner journeys to the happiest places on Earth in his new book The Geography of Bliss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The new push for war - uncovering news Former chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter explains his argument that the Bush administration is building a case for war on Iran. Then Project Censored's Peter Phillips explains why he thinks building 7 was demolished and why the news won't report it or other important stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cut Medi-cal? Sam Farr to the Rescue Executives of local health care nonprofits discuss the potential effects of Governor Schwarzenegger's proposal to reduce Medi-cal services. Congressman Sam Farr rescues the Pajaro Valley Health Trust from the Department of Homeland Security. Also a discussion of disparities in health care between different Central Coast communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grassroots Journalism, Bush and Botox From our archives: KUSP's Deanna Zachary interviews Eesha Williams, author of the how-to manual "Grassroots Journalism." Then local poet Patrice Vecchione and others discuss "Faith and Doubt" the anthology of poems edited by Vecchione. Also, KUSP's Rick Kleffel interviews Saul Landau, whose latest book "A Bush and Botox World." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meeting Resistance: Inside the Iraq Insurgency In 2003 and 2004, war correspondents Molly Bingham and Steve Connors went where no reporters had gone before: inside the Iraq insurgency. Bingham and Connors talk to KUSP's Robert Pollie about their new documentary film, "Meeting Resistance," which offers a rare and surprising look at some of the people battling American forces. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The New American Meal Where our food has come from, what food is and why we eat. Rick Kleffel is joined by Mollie Katzen Michael Pollan and Ann Vileisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Exploring the Local Voting Systems Rachel Anne Goodman explores local voting systems in Santa Cruz County with guests and then explores the question of local preparedness for natural disasters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ocean Science Call-In Show KUSP's J.D. Hillard fields your general ocean science questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Exploring Automobile Fuel Efficiency Kelly O'Brien explores automobile fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gasses. In 2007 the EPA denied California's attempt to require cars to burn less fuel. Hosted by Deanna Zachary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tales of Do-It-Yourself Artistry How a retired stockbroker found contentment playing accordion on the streets of Santa Cruz. "The Great Morgani" talks about his life with KUSP's Robert Pollie. Also, "Learning to Love You More": a participatory art project that explores our collective creativity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Irish history and Frank Delaney's new book Rick Kleffel interviews Frank Delaney. They discuss Irish history and Delaney's new book "Tipperary." Also a 2003 interview with Isabel Allende and then Lou Anders, editor of Pyr books talks about what he looks for in submitted manuscripts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One School Has Some Good News Amidst continuing criticism of No Child Left Behind and poor performance of public education, KUSP's Emily Quirk reports on a school that fell under the sway of No Child Left Behind and got itself out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health care challenges and opportunities A proposal for universal health coverage has passed in the California Assembly. Santa Cruz County Health Services Director Rama Khalsa explains what these proposals means for the Central Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Homeless Memorial Day; Tsunami Histories The Santa Cruz homeless community gathered last week to remember homeless people who died in the county during 2007. KUSP's Robert Pollie reports. Also, three years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Robert speaks to geologist Simon Day about oral traditions in tsunami education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Adventures of Eddie Fung Chinatown kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of war, autobiographer Eddie Fung is interviewed by KUSP's Rick Kleffel who also speaks with Fung's co-author Janet Yung. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pajaro Valley water Pajaro Valley residents have pumped so much water from their wells that some wells now only produce salt water. Now a court order has forced the region's water agency to cut its fees by half. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman explores the region's response to the problem and how the agency will operate in the wake of the fee cut. Then Assembly member John Laird discusses the future of a proposal for universal health care that has passed the state assembly and is waiting for discussion in the senat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Astronomy Call-in Show Astronomers Greg Laughlin and Steve Vogt spend their lives hunting down planets. Listen to hear how it works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Redmond O'Hanlon: Trawler Acclaimed travel writer Redmond O'Hanlon spent two storm-tossed weeks aboard a North Atlantic fishing trawler - and lived to tell the tale to KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ann Vileisis, Rusty Morrison and Felix Gilman Ann Vileisis talks about her new book "Kitchen Literacy" it's journey through the history of our perceptions of the food we eat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The season of need A report on the state of hunger in the Central Coast from staff of Second Harvest Food Bank and an interview with Curtis Reliford a one-man orginazation providing aid to the needy in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman hosts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Preventing floods and restoring habitat KUSP's Brett Bennett interviews the Sierra Club's Lois Robin about the Army Corps of Engineers' plans for preventing flooding on the lower Pajaro River. Also an exerpt from Deanna Zachary's 2006 interview with contributors to "Project Homecoming." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chasing Glaciers "Chasing Glaciers" is a documentary aiming to show the affect of global warming on the world's glaciers and drinking water. Producer-director Curt Dowdy discusses his film with KUSP's Deanna Zachary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Physics of Higher Dimensions Beyond 3-D. Some physicists think the world may have 4, 5, or even more dimensions of space. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to theoretical physicist Lisa Randall about the science of higher dimensions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 35 years in the Santa Cruz news business After more than 35 years at the Santa Cruz Sentinel including over a decade as managing editor, Tom Honig has left he news business. He discusses his years in the news and the state of that industry with KUSP's Rachel Anne goodman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering Jerry Smith Community leaders remember Jerry Smith, Monterey County's first black supervisor. Smith died last week after serving a portion of his first term. Also new performance venues coming to Santa Cruz County and an archive interview about a computer program that allows you to help the hunt for new planets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Daniel Dennett: Breaking the Spell A conversation about the nature of religion with the celebrated philosopher Daniel Dennett. Dennett says that the religious impulse is a product of evolution and should be studied as a biological phenomenon. He talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Sky View to Cave Train - local kitch Dana Frank discusses her book "Local Girl Makes History: exploring northern California's kitsch monuments." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's good in the transportation plan? More on the proposal to fund transportation projects in Santa Cruz County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salud Para la Gente A year ago, we learned that Salud Para la Gente was deep in debt and Elderday, it's daytime assisted living service, might have to close. On this show, Medical Director Jose Chibras discusses the past and future of Salud. Then the new Bishop of the local Episcopal church explains her vision of the future for the church. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How Artists Beat Scientists to the Punch What great art teaches us about the brain. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to science writer Jonah Lehrer, author of "Proust was a Neuroscientist." Lehrer discusses recent discoveries in brain science and says that artists like Proust, Cezanne and Stravinsky got there first, anticipating scientific breakthroughs by many decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Authors Molly Gloss and Karen Joy Fowler Rick Kleffel speaks with Molly Gloss about westerns, science fiction, and her new book, "The Hearts of Horses," about the young women who "started" wild mustangs on the west coast in 1917, and with Karen Joy Fowler, author of "The Jane Austen Book Club." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chef Anthony Bourdain Iconoclast chef Anthony Bourdain discusses Thanksgiving and his book "No Reservations: around the world on an empty stomach" with KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gridlock and global warming Pros and cons of the Santa Cruz County transportation plan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Buying Out Fishermen to Protect the Ocean In 2006 the Nature Conservancy purchased the rights to seven federal groundfish trawl permits to protect nearly 4 million acres of seafloor habitat along the Central Coast. They have now started leasing back those permits to fisherman in hopes of making fishing more sustainable and more economically viable. Brian Petersen explores the implications of this new Conservation Fishing Agreement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Comedian Amy Sedaris and Writer Robert Sullivan Amy Sedaris on Hospitality, Robert Sullivan on Car Travel in the USA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poetry Santa Cruz and Princess and the Pea Chair Tour A visit with Poetry Santa Cruz at the Capitola Book Cafe. Also, KUSP's Rick Kleffel reports from the Princess and the Pea Chair Tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | KUSP's Annual Thanksgiving Cooking Show Listen to a pre-recorded call in show with cooking ideas and questions for Irene Hermann, Daniel Steinberg and Rachel Anne Goodman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The SF Bay Oil Spill Exploring the recent oil spill in San Francisco Bay with Steve Shimek from The Otter Project. Then an upate on a Moss Landing neighborhood's fight to stop spraying fumigants in a local field. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering Maude Meehan Friends, family and fellow writers celebrate the life and work of poet Maude Meehan. The Santa Cruz-based writer, teacher and community activist died this past August. KUSP's Robert Pollie hosts this special tribute show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tom Brokaw "Boom;" Nikki Giovanni Veteran television news anchor Tom Brokaw discusses his book "Boom." Also renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, whose latest book is "Accolites," discusses her work with Kathryn Petruccelli. Then director Paul Whitworth and writer Kate Hawley discuss Shakespeare Santa Cruz's production of "The Princess and the Pea." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Felton water and nature film "Making Tracks" From our archives: KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman's interviews from the spring about Felton's water conflict and "Making Tracks" a new documentary from local filmakers Karen and Kennan Ward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Protesting growth plans at UCSC KUSP's George Cadman interviews opponents of growth plans at UCSC. Tom Brokaw discusses his book "Boom" with KUSP's Rick Kleffel. Detective Sgt. Dan Campos joins J.D. Hillard to explain the dangers and precautions of identity theft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Spray Or Not To Spray As the state prepares to spray pheromones over Santa Cruz County, KUSP's J.D. Hillard discusses the spraying with David Dilworth, director of the group that sued over anti-moth spraying in Monterey County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Singer on Ethics A conversation about right and wrong with one of the world's leading ethicists. Peter Singer is professor of bioethics at Princeton University and author of "Animal Liberation," "Practical Ethics," and "The Way We Eat." He and KUSP's Robert Pollie consider some of the toughest moral questions of our time, including animal rights, euthanasia, and capital punishment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Lay of the Land Author Richard Ford discusses his book "The Lay of the Land" with KUSP's Rick Kleffel. Also, Rick's interviews with Janet and Cris Atwood, authors of "Passion Test," and Dr. Rodney Brooks discusses artificial intelligence. Then Daria Troxell explains the fuss behind "High School Musical" on Life Under the Lights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | KUSP Quarterly Call-In Listeners call-in with comments and questions about KUSP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fright -- real and fictional Erika Mailman discusses her novel "Witch's Trinity" with KUSP's Rick Kleffel. Also Margot Herster discusses her exhibit "Guantanamo: pictures from home." And the cast of the Planet Cruz Comedy Hour demonstrate radio comedy counseling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Radio Journalism Michael Krasny, host of KQED's weekday talk show "Forum," joins Deanna Zachary to discuss radio journalism and his new book, "Off Mike." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Invasion of the Body Snatchers Evolutionary scientist Marlene Zuk on the biology of parasites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Music and Your Mind How music messes with your head. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to musician and cognitive psychologist Daniel Levitin about the neuroscience of music. Levitin is author of "Your Brain on Music." Then some mind-altering melodies from composer and New Music Works director Phil Collins. He discusses his original film score for the silent horror classic "Nosferatu." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SF at SF and Rocky Horror Rick Kleffel explores Artificial Intelligence and SF at SF. Alice Vecchiola interviews Scott Kravitz, director of Mountain Community Theatre's Rocky Horror Picture Show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Policing Halloween Two years after Halloween in Santa Cruz was marred by a number of gang-related assaults police explain their plans to keep Santa Cruz safe during the raucous holiday. Rachel Anne Goodman hosts. Also local costume experts give tips on Halloween attire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Religious Response to Global Warming Religion and global warming. Environmentalists and local religious leaders explain the role religion can play in the response to climate change. J.D. Hillard hosts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conflict Resolution Resolving lawsuits with conflict management. Conflict Resolution Center head Nancy Heischman joins KUSP's J.D. Hillard to discuss conflict resolution in Santa Cruz County's small claims court. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Comedian and Satirist Harry Shearer Comedian and political satirist Harry Shearer. He's a member of the mock-rock trio Spinal Tap, the voice of many characters on The Simpsons, a radio host and a first-time novelist. Shearer discusses his career in TV, radio and film with KUSP's Robert Pollie and shares some of his classic satirical sketches. Originally broadcast fall, 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Vegetarian Dishes I Can't Live Without Vegetarian home cooking guru Mollie Katzen's latest cookbook is "The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without." she joins KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman and local cook Irene Hermann to discuss recipes and vegetarian cooking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Impeachment Impeachment and the expansion of executive power. Charlie Savage discusses his book "Takeover the Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American democracy." Why some conservatives support impeaching both the vice president and the president. Congressman Sam Farr joins J.D. Hillard to explain the prospects for impeaching Dick Cheney, which he supports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Reich Discusses his New Book Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich discusses his new book "Supercapitalism" with KUSP's Deanna Zachary. Reich explains how citizens can take back the power that has been granted to global corporations. He explains his argument that the corporate income tax and social responsibility movement aren't helping. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | L'Orchestra Piazza Vittorio Formed to counter anti-immigrant feeling in Italy, Rome's Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio has evolved a unique cross-cultural sound. We'll hear the band's story and plenty of music as KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to bandleader Mario Tronco and documentary film maker Agostino Ferrente. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Harvey, Andrew Kimbrell, Gail Tsukiyama Sumo wrestling, noh theatre and World War Two. These are some of the elements of Gail Tsukiyama's novel "The Street of a Thousand Blossoms." Tsukiyama discusses her novel with KUSP's Rick Kleffel. Also on the show, interviews with Andrew Kimbrell, author of "Your Right to Know" and journalist Michael Harvey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Santa Cruz Climate Pact UCSC and the City and County of Santa Cruz have announced a pact to reduce local carbon emissions and encourage climate-friendly businesses. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the plan with UCSC climate scientist Lisa Sloan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pesticide Concerns Last week, California's agriculture secretary explained the state's aerial spraying against the Light Brown Apple Moth. On Tuesday's show, KUSP's George Cadman discusses concerns about the spraying with the managing director of the Pesticide Action Network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Authors Steve Almond and Peg Kingman Steve Almond, author of 'Not that you asked' and Peg Kingman, who wrote 'Not Yet Drowned' is interviewed by Rick Kleffel. Also J.D. Hillard speaks with the producers of the MAH Art Car event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reporting the news with fewer reporters Newspapers make do with fewer reporters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Biofuel's local future The next innovation in renewable fuel might come from the Monterey Bay Area. In Santa Cruz, Permaculture guru David Blume proposes a community-based approach to ethanol. Meanwhile, local organic farmers are experimenting with crops to produce biodiesel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Coltrane: the story of a sound New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff traces the development and impact of one the 20th century's most distinctive musical voices. He talks and spin some tunes with KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bush and Botox Left Author Saul Landau and the local Women of Mystery Book Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Planning the future of art in Monterey County Representatives of Monterey County art organizations explain a plan for supporting arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Invasion of the Body Snatchers Evolutionary scientist Marlene Zuk on the biology of parasites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The agency of artificial intelligence What could happen if we make an artificial general intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | National parks in the ocean Marine Protected areas./The new Monterey County General Plan proposal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Miracle of recovery and the plague of meth. Addiction treatment workers discuss the miracle of recovery and the plague of meth. Also on the show, Leon Panetta discusses the Iraq War with Wes Sims. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Attracting green building and tech What makes a green city? And what problems can being green cause. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Longevity and its limits. Robert Pollie talks to anti-aging activist Aubrey de Grey and other scientists and thinkers about attempts to extend the human lifespan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Rick Kleffel interviews Xiaolu Guo, author of "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers." The book depicts the challenges ito communicaiton in a cross-cultural relationship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Is Environmentalism Dead? KUSP's Deanna Zachary and author Michael Schellenberger discuss his criticism of the environmental movement. Schellenberger explains why he believes fighting global warming requires a new approach. This show was originally broadcast February 22, 2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet An interview with editors and a contributor to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Social critic Susan Faludi Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Susan Faludi examines America's psychological response to 9/11. She says the September 11th attacks revived old myths--and old gender concepts--that go back to the founding of the nation. She talks to KUSP's Robert Pollie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interviews with Authors Kate Christensen and Belle Wang Rick Kleffel speaks with Kate Christensen about her book "The Great Man", and then Katherine Petricelli speaks with Belle Yang anbout her new book and a new movie based upon her life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Aerial Spraying for the Apple Moth Santa Cruz author Leba Wine and KUSP's Deanna Zachary discuss Wine's novel based on the history of a quilt passed through her family for generations. Also on the show, hear from the producers of "Accidental Hero," playing during the Pacific Rim Film Festival. And comedian Richard Stockton explains how the Planet Cruz Comedy Hour, whose first performance is Friday, can be the Praire Home Companion for the left coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Santa Cruz author Leba Wine Santa Cruz author Leba Wine and KUSP's Deanna Zachary discuss Wine's novel based on the history of a quilt passed through her family for generations. Also on the show, hear from the producers of "Accidental Hero," playing during the Pacific Rim Film Festival. And comedian Richard Stockton explains how the Planet Cruz Comedy Hour, whose first performance is Friday, can be the Praire Home Companion for the left coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Actor and Comedian Nick Ullett KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to British-born actor and comedian Nick Ullett about his life in show business. Ullett started in the Cambridge Footlights troupe with future members of Monty Python, then became a popular stand-up performer in the US. He describes opening for Lenny Bruce, getting kicked off the Ed Sullivan show, how to play a bad guy and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Viabilty of Nursing Homes After it was charged with a number of safety violations The Pleasant Care nursing home company went bankrupt and sold off a local facility. KUSP's Dana Farington investigates the viability of these homes with resident advocates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Immigration Enforcement The Department of Homeland Security has announced it will step up enforcement against businesses whose employees'; names don't match the Social Security numbers they submit. Immigrant advocates and farmers join KUSP's George Cadman to look at the effects this announcement has already had on the Central Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health Care Issues As California Democrats continue to lobby for some form of health coverage expansion, KUSP re-airs Deanna Zachary's discussion with architects of the health care plans in Vermont and San Francisco. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Alan Cheuse "The Fires" KUSP's Rick Kleffel and author and critic Alan Cheuse discuss Cheuse' new book "The Fires." Also, on Life Under the Lights, actor Richard Saldavia explains what's involved in playing several drunks in the upcoming "Drinking in America." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What the budget means After weeks of delay, California's legislature has agreed on a budget. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman examines the budget with State Senator Joe Simitian and Assembly member John Laird. Also, why the ACLU is giving Simitian and Laird awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local effects of the mortgage crisis As Central Coast branches of national mortgage lenders have been laying off staff, KUSP's Deanna Zachary continues her exploration of the local effects of the woes of the mortgage industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Budget impasse hits local services The budget impasse in the California state legislature has resulted in reduced services at some Central Coast charities. KUSP's J.D. Hillard explores the reasons for the halted state funding with State Senator Jeff Denham and representatives of local service agencies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The future is now Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson joins KUSP's Rick Kleffel to discuss his work and changes in cyberspace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Did Cheney kill the salmon? Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the death of thousands of salmon on the Klamath River. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman examines the congressional investigation and the impact of diverting the river's water for agriculture. Leon Panetta, Sam Farr and fishing and river advocates all take part. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lending to relieve poverty From KUSP's archives with Deanna Zachary, about micro-credit and lending small sums of money so that people can start their own businesses. And then listen to an interview with American author Anna Baltzer, about living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Just when you thought it was safe to vote Following the state decertification of voting machines, Santa Cruz County Elections chief Gail Pellerin answers questions about the reliability of the county election system. Then recycling coordinator discusses the county's effort to create zero waste. Also, the director of the Mock Tempest explains his "triple baked potato." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview-with-Tony-Hill Long time civil rights activist Tony Hill died in his Santa Cruz home August 7th. On Monday's Talk of the Bay, KUSP presents Deanna Zachary's 2004 interview with Tony Hill from our archives. Hill gives an in-depth look at prejudice and inter-racial families. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Throw like a girl Jean Thompson discusses her short story compilation "Throw like a girl" with KUSP's Katherine Petrucelli. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living near dangerous pesticides An update on a Moss Landing neighborhood's fight to stop the fumigation of a nearby strawberry field. KUSP's J.D. Hillard will speak with Jonathan Gettleman, the attorney representing some residents in a lawsuit seeking to block the pesticides. Also on the show, local fire chiefs warn that the fire season continues in rural areas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Can bagged spinach be safe? Making spinach safe. Jim Bogart of the Grower Shipper Association joins KUSP's J.D. Hillard for a discussion of rules the leafy green industry has developed to prevent e.coli outbreaks. Then small-farm advocates explain how farm-to-institution arrangements can help local farms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Adjustable-rate loans helped the mortgage debacle A major ingredient to the sub-prime mortgage industry melt-down has been adjustable-rate mortgages with optional payments. KUSP's Deanna Zachary and local mortgage attorney William Purdy discuss the hazards of these loans and how they were targeted to minority borrowers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nation-Building 101 KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Rory Stewart, an ex-British diplomat and former official with the US-led coalition in Iraq. Stewart discusses his experiences as the de-facto governor of an Iraqi province, how the occupation went wrong, and options for a US pullout. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A future of virtual alienation Futurist Faith Popcorn on the growth of artificial reality. And then Shakespeare Santa Cruz' Paul Whitworth, "Playboy of the Western World" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Defense employee aids Afghanistan Former Santa Cruz resident Steve Rudock earned an award for his humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan while working for the Defense Department. He'll discuss his experiences there with KUSP's Emily Quirk. Then composers Jennifer Higdon and Mark O'Connor discuss their upcoming works in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Marin Alsop and the Art of Conducting KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to acclaimed orchestra conductor Marin Alsop, music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. They discuss this year's festival and the art of conducting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Buddhist Cop v. Serial Killers KUSP's Rick Kleffel speaks with John Burdett about his new novel, Bangkok Haunts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "War Made Easy" Sean Sweazy of UCSC's Agro-ecology center discusses the innovations he's made in the organic cultivation of strawberries. Then, Media Critic Normon Solomon talks about his film, War Made Easy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Avoiding Retirement By 2030, one in four Americans will be over 60 years old. A new trend suggests many will avoid retirement. Join KUSP's Deanna Zachary and author Marc Freedman as they discuss his latest book, Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life. Also on the show, Jim Leap of UCSC Agro-ecology program and program graduates discuss the Agro-Ecology apprenticeship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Joys (yes, joys) of Beckett KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to noted theater director Peter Lichtenfels about the life and work of Samuel Beckett. Lichtenfels is currently directing Beckett's play "Endgame," running at the Shakespeare Santa Cruz festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Buddhist Cop v. Serial Killers Rick Kleffel speaks with John Burdett about his new novel, Bangkok Haunts. It's a police procedural set in Thailand featuring a Buddhist cop who pursues serial murderers and vengeful spirits with equal aplomb. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Can meditation treat heart disease? Yoga and meditation are popular responses to many illnesses, including heart disease. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman takes a look at how these practices may or may not help in cases of heart disease. Also in the show, UCSC celebrates 40 years of leadership in sustainable agriculture. Agro-Ecology center director Patricia Allen discusses the center's accomplishments with KUSP's J.D. Hillard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Monterey County open Space; Poetry Slam Future Monterey County parkland is discussed. Also on the show, the West Cost Poetry Slam Returns and a new technology from UCSC that could help rapid detection of epidemic viruses and to film activity in cellular nucleii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Celebrating Gypsy Music KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to film maker Jasmine Dellal about her new documentary, Gypsy Caravan. The film celebrates the lives and music of top international Gypsy performers from India, Romania, Macedonia and Spain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Making Santa Cruz a capitol of eco-business KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman interviews Santa Cruz County Treasurer-Tax Collector Fred Keeley about his efforts to make the region a headquarters of environmentally friendly innovation. Plus, a new industry makes it possible to recycle electronic waste and prevent the release of toxins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Neighbors Cry Foul Over Pesticides Residents of a Moss Landing neighborhood cry foul over plans to apply pesticides to a nearby field. Then Buddhist teacher author and counselor Noah Levine discusses his new book, Against the Stream. KUSP's Deanna Zachary hosts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Dubious Science of Race Old habits die hard. How once-outmoded racial ideas may be resurfacing in genetics, medicine and forensic science, and why that has some observers worried. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to sociologist Troy Duster and other experts about the on-again, off-again science of race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The dark side of motherhood Susanna Moore's Big Girls is the story of a mother incarcerated for killing her children. Then J.D. Hillard interviews Mad Magazine Senior Editor Joe Raiola. Raiola performs his one-man comedy piece "Almost Obscene" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Log or Not to Log Last year, the Lompico Watershed Conservancy completed a campaign to preserve some of Santa Cruz County's most remote forest land from logging. KUSP's Brian Peterson interviews Kevin Collins, one of the organizers of that effort. Also on the show, logging to save the land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Good news on homelessness? Plus: Art in the sun Annual surveys of homeless populations on the Central Coast found declines in the number of homeless people. KUSP's J.D. Hillard discusses the surveys with homeless service providers. Then representatives of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History discuss the museum's Plein Aire Affair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cleaning up beaches, roads and Salinas' reputation With the July fourth beach crowds comes July fourth beach trash. Emily Quirk interviews representatives of environmental group Save Our Shores, which organizes cleanups afterward. Also on the program, making dagerous intersections safer and Salinas' effort to improve its image. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jim Crace's "The Pesthouse" and KUSP's "Life Under the Lights" Rick Kleffel speaks with Jim Crace about his new novel The Pesthouse. Also, Heather Harvell discusses the play "Little of Shop of Horrors" at Carillo Stage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Quality of local health care for children Children's local health care issues; then an update of local actions by the Raging Grannies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Efforts to Slow Climate Change. On September 27, 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act. The bill aims to reduce California's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels over 14 years. KUSP's Brian Petersen explores the meaning of this goal for the state and the Central Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Kerns discusses his novel, Standard of Care. Despite being the richest, most technologically advanced county in history, the United States health care system is nowhere near the best. So says doctor and Stanford University professor David Kerns. Kerns has dramatized his criticism in a new novel, Standard of Care. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Daniel Farber, constitutional law scholar. A new look at the Ninth Amendment with constitutional law expert Daniel Farber, who discusses his book, Retained by the People: the Silent Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War. Rick Kleffel speaks with noted blogger, working writer and science fiction author John Scalzi. They discuss the wild world of the web, writing for a living and blowing stuff up in science fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview with Sharon Daniel, designer of Public Secrets Public Secrets is a collection of testimonials from women inmates of California prisons. The site won a Webby, among the highest honors for Internet sites. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman Interviews Daniel about the project and the injustices it highlights. Then the Japanese Cultural Fair returns to Santa Cruz this weekend. Rachel explores some of the food and music that will be on display. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview with Sutter Santa Cruz CEO Larry de Ghetaldi. Compared with neighboring regions, doctors in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties receive less compensation for Medicare services, creating a sort of brain drain in local health care. This month, the county governments signed onto a class action law suit challenging the compensation rate. Emily Quirk interviews Sutter Santa Cruz CEO Larry de Ghetaldi about the meaning of the suit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism. Being good neighbors in the global village. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah about ethics in a cosmopolitan world. Appiah draws on his own cross-cultural background to explore issues of racial, religious and national identity and coexistence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Science fiction author Corey Doctorow Rick Kleffel presents his interview with digital rights activist and science fiction author Corey Doctorow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Affordable Housing and the County Budget. Affordable Housing and the County Budget are discussed as well as the moth that may wreak havoc on the central coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fred Keeley discusses transportation in S.C. County. A task force aims to find ways to fund transportation projects that the community will support. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health care needs of the transgendered. Transgendered people face serious health care obstacles. These range from ignorance of the health implications of gender reassignment to trans-phobia. On this show, KUSP's Deanna Zachary interviews Doctor Jennifer Hastings, who has helped establish medical services aimed at the needs of the trans-gendered. Also on the show, author Cris Beam discusses her portrait of transgendered teens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Self-deception and self-justification with social psychologist Elliot Aronson. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Elliot Aronson, author of "Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me," talks about how we justify bad decisions, deflect blame and blind ourselves to our own errors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Helen Simpson, author of 'In the Driver's Seat' Kathryn Petruccelli speaks with Helen Simpson author of 'In the Driver's Seat', a collection darkly humorous short stories. Get behind the wheel with Helen Simpson, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Water in Monterey County and Disaster Planning A discussion of Disaster Planning on the large scale and down to the individual. Also, a talk about Water on the central coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local leaders respond to questions about preparation for oil scarcity. The U.S. has little control over oil supplies. We discuss how we can prepare for a rapid rise in oil prices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local Effects of No Child Left Behind. School districts with large numbers of English learners face stiff challenges meeting the requirements of the No Child Left Behind law. Pajaro Valley Unified School District Trustee Sandra Nichols discusses the effects of the law on her district with KUSP's JD Hillard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New York Times science columnist Natalie Angier speaks about her new book, "The Canon." KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Angier about her new book, "The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Summer reading ideas on KUSP's Friday book show. Rick Kleffel discusses books for summer reading with Alan Beattes, owner of Borderlands Bookstore and Hugo-nominated science fiction reviewer Cheryl Morgan. Jenn Ramage will also bring a list of new releases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What 'peak oil' means to the Central Coast. KUSP's Stefanie Wolf examines the effects oil scarcity could have on agriculture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cheri Huber, Zen, and Bettina Apthecker. Diana Zachary interviews Cheri Huber on the occasion of her recently published book, Making a Change For Good. Also, UCSC Professor Bettina Apthecker discusses her book, How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Politics of Water and Immigration Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the politics of water, and how national and local water issues figure into life on the Central Coast. Also, a discussion of the current Immigration debate in the House. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | California condors and lead California condors' existence is threatened by hunters' use of lead bullets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Green Businesses and a Reading by David Smith-Ferri A discussion of Green businesses and how they may become more competitive with new state laws. Also, an interview with David Smith-Ferri. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Theme Park of the Gods Erik Davis joins KUSP's Robert Pollie for a tour of California's spiritual movements and religious architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fangland - A novel about a modern-day Dracula. KUSP's Rick Kleffel and former 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Marks discuss Marks' new novel Fangland. Fangland is the story of a TV reporter who stumbles into the clutches of a modern Dracula in Transylvania. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mobile Homes, Financial Planning, and the Health of Fisheries. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman discusses Mobile Home Parks and rent control. Also, learn better ways to plan for your financial future. And finally, a look at the health of local fisheries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Queer Youth Awards and Local Fisheries. KUSP's Deanna Zachary interviews local organizers and winners of the Queer Youth Awards. Also, a discussion of last year's fishery disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Three servicemen who became war resisters Three who refused. KUSP's Robert Pollie talks to Agustin Aguayo, Camilo Mej�a and Pablo Paredes, American servicemen who became Iraq war resisters. All refused to support the war effort, and were sentenced to prison or hard labor as a result. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bikes and Teaching Bike to Work Week is coming up. Learn how to get a free breakfast with host Rachel Anne Goodman. Also, an interview with Rafe Esquith, author of 'Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chuck Palahniuk KUSP's Rick Kleffel interviews 'Fight Club' author Chuck Palahniuk. Palahnuik's latest novel 'Choke' is about a sex addict who attends sex-addict recovery meetings just to pick up dates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Comedian Paula Poundstone talks about her upcoming concert in Santa Cruz. Comedian Paula Poundstone talks about her upcoming concert to benefit the group WomenCare, which helps women with cancer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dangerous and Sometimes Illegal Driving Behavior. C-H-P Officer Grant Boles and KUSP&s Emily Quirk discuss the driving behaviors that are dangerous and illegal or just plain annoying. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEND - An essential guide to email for home and office. Rick Kleffel speaks with David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, the authors of SEND: An Essential Guide to Email for Home and Office. Learn how to use email to stay married, employed and out of jail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Monterey County General Plan Initiatives and the Reel Works Film Festival. A discussion of the Monterey County General Plan Initiatives and a look at the UCSC Graduate Student Sponsored Reel Works Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Isreali peace activist Jeff Halper discusses the faltering peace process. Isreali Peace Activist Jeff Halper discusses the future of the two-state solution with KUSP's George Cadman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Local students and Teachers meet with Dalai Lama. Interview with Author John Moore. A discussion with local students and teachers about their recent visit with the Dalai Lama. Also an interview with John Moore, authoer of The Return of the Condor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | World Without Oil, an on-line Alternate Reality Game. Interview with Ken Eklund, who designs on-line alternative reality games. A discussion of his latest project--World Without Oil--which simulates a global energy crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The documentary film about Grizzly bears, Making Tracks, and a talk with Rev. Deborah L. Johnson Host Rachel Anne Goodman discusses the documentary film Making Tracks with nature photographers Kennan and Karen Ward. Also, a talk with Reverand Deborah L. Johnson of Soquels Inner Light Ministry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tax Day and Funding the War in Iraq, Linda Olson's New Novel, and A Crack in the Mask. Host Diana Zachary discusses tax day and funding the war in Iraq with former Santa Cruz major, Scott Kennedy. Also, a talk about Linda Olson's novel Astrid and Veronica, and the upcoming dance show A Crack in the Mask. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |