KZSC Santa Cruz

Headlines: Death toll rises in Santa Rosa fires, More mega fires expected in CA future, Increase in black carbon, CA senators introduce land protection bill, Birds illuminating playful side of animals, Gardeners fostering bee and butterfly populations, Researching maximum efficiency of wind farms.  Stories: UCSC examines Santa Cruz' housing crisis, Grant Money to Clean Up Illegal Marijuana Grows,...

Puerto Rico has been devastated following Hurricane Maria. Juan Carlos Davila Santiago , is a filmmaker, journalist, writer, and graduate student in the doctoral program of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz . He recently returned from a trip to Puerto Rico where his family is based and where he spent most of his summer. He provided a first-hand account o...

Headlines: Fires trigger anti-gouging rent control, Grants issued to clean up illegal cannabis grows, Sudden oak death, and more. Stories: California's wildlife agency sued over whale entanglements, climate change could make tick population grow, oil train proposal for the California coast is abandoned by Phillips 66. Plus a calendar of events and more at newsfromoutdoors.org

KZSC News ~ 2017 10 26 Rent Control Imposed following fires  (Jordan Penland) Study: More fires like Napa's in California's future  (Jordan Penland) Juvenile accused of murder to stand trial as an adult  (Jordan Penland) Rent Control on Santa Cruz ballot  (Daniel Wootan) Santa Cruz approves recreational marijuana sales  (Parker Hume) Rifle discovered at Santa Cruz middle school  (Alex Vareljian) D...

Bookshop Santa Cruz , a locally owned and independent bookstore, has organized a series of events this past year as part of a new program called Words to Act On: Education, Empathy, and Action . This Fall 2017, Santa Cruz Bookshop has organized a series of events and campaign addressing the topic of immigration .  Casey Coonerty Protti is a second generation owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz and has ru...

In this week's installment of Slug Talk, RIZ aka RSD interviews Nick Kleiber, Nicole O'Connor, Dante Capone, and Autumn Brown--four student-athletes from the UCSC Cross Country Team . Recorded live on-air 10.13.17.

KZSC News ~ 2017 10 19 Cabrillo College students hacked Fire rages in Boulder Creek Evangelist wins settlement with city of SC O'mei restaurant reopens Examining wine country fires New SCPD Chief's homeless strategy Interview with Chicano Batman Arrests at UCSC College Republicans meeting More online at kzsc.org

We report on environmental threats to the coastal zone, the 25th birthday of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary and the hepatitis A outbreak in SC County. Plus  headlines, a calendar of events and more.      

We review the latest on the rash of wildfires in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties, and celebrate the reopening of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Hwy 1, destroyed after wildfires and landslides struck Big Sur. Plus headlines, a calendar of events and more.

Santa Cruz County is experiencing a major housing crisis.  Steven McKay, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz , is the co-Principle investigator of a research project called "No Place Like Home" to better understand the housing crisis in the area.  Hermes Padilla is an undergraduate student who was part of the research team for "No Place Like Home" after taking Professor McKay's class...

KZSC News ~ 2017 10 12 Wildfires raze urban California areas (Tyler Harris & Keith Rozendal) Monterey Peninsula Pushes For Public Water Company (Matt) Arrests Weapon filled music video (Charlotte) The Fight Against Chloropyrifos (Samantha Rocinos) Peak Monarch Watching Season (Olivia Joyce) Carmel Moves To Ban Plastic Straws (Matthew Sandoval) Pfeifer Big Sur Bridge To Reopen (Maelin Rose) Fourtee...

An interview with Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias , Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCSC and the Director of The Culture & Achievement Collaborative . She is a first generation college student and now faculty member who helped launch UCSC's First Generation Initiative to raise the visibility of the First Generation community at UCSC.  We discussed the cultural challenges facing First Generation stude...

An interview with Dr. Christine Shearer of Coalswarm about the coal industry and global warming.  Coalswarm is a conglomerate which tracks coal projects around the world. Dr. Shearer discussed how these coal projects are affecting the climate, the myths purported by the current administration about "clean coal," and her vision for the future of the environmental justice movement. Dr. Shearer discu...

An interview with Professor Zeus Leonardo of UC Berkeley's Education Department. We discussed his research on race and pedagogy, about the challenges facing public education today, and about the differences between white privilege and white supremacy as a framework to discuss whiteness. We also discussed the events happening in the city of Berkeley and at UC Berkeley by right-wing groups seeking t...

We report on air quality in the Santa Cruz Mountains and what some locals are doing to help. Plus an interview with an independent Native American journalist, environmental news  headlines, a calendar of events and more.

Originally aired on Talkabout, August 16. 2017. Mairo Kuntze interviews comic book shop owner and musician Joe Ferrara , who tells stories of working with "The Lost Boys" cast, as well as being acquainted with artists before they became famous such as Adam Scott and Juice Newton.

An interview with Dr. Shearer of Coalswarm to discuss the effects of climate change on the village of Kivalina, located in a remote area of Alaska. Dr. Shearer is the author of Kivalina: A Climate Change Story (2011, Haymarket Press). Dr. Shearer discusses how climate change is forcibly displacing this community that has agreed to a community relocation over 20 years ago. However, no federal resou...

An interview with Peter Esmonde, long-time volunteer with the Prisoners Literature Project .  The Prisoners Literature Project is an all volunteer, grassroots, non-profit organization that has sent books to prisoners in 49 states.  We discussed how the PLP started, about the history of the books-to-prisoners movement, and the arbitrary regulations PLP navigates in trying to get books to prisoners....

An interview with Dr. Rebecca Hernandez Rosser, Director of UC Santa Cruz's American Indian Resource Center , about a range of issues facing indigenous communities in the United States, including lack of access to opportunities for higher education. She addressed the health struggles, both physical and mental, facing Native communities and other communities of color and about the food justice move...

An interview with Perla Pineda (Project/Program Coordinator) and Angelica Villegas (Program Facilitator) of Girls Inc of the Central Coast .  We discussed the programmatic work of Girls Inc of the Central Coast in the local Santa Cruz and surrounding communities, the importance of offering gender-specific programs and services targeting girls, and about the role of empowering middle school and hig...

An interview with Jackie Sue Powell, certified yoga instructor in Santa Cruz, California .  We discussed the role yoga has played in her health and well-being. Jackie discussed her commitment to make yoga accessible, both in terms of cost and imagining yoga practices outside the studio.  She spoke about her life-changing experiences teaching and learning yoga around the world, including Guatemala,...

The Ace of Cups , one of the first all-women rock bands emerging in the mid-sixties , were at the center of the San Francisco music scene and the summer of love in 1967. Fifty years later, the group has come together to record a proper studio album of old and new songs. Listen here to Carol's exclusive interview on the Test of Time with Ace of Cups' guitarist & bassist Denise Kaufman . Kaufman tal...

Justin Mosley was the guest on Artista on Art, 8/16/17 and we talked about  The Frogman Experience , his collaborative projects with other musicians and hearing about how his band members have gone through their own metamorphosis to come together and perform as magical creators. Check out their upcoming show:  The Catalyst Club  August 24:  http://www.catalystclub.com/…/1540103-frogman-experience-...

KZSC News ~ 01 June 2017 School funding in peril under Trump budget proposal (Jordan Penland) Record rains bring boom times for California creatures (Maelin Rose) US House Bill criminalizes undocumented immigrants (Jordan Penland) New group opposes Santa Cruz's corridors development plan (Gina Ranieri)  Santa Cruz libraries expand hours, restrict patron behavior (Sydney Fishman) Santa Cruz approve...

KZSC News ~ 25 May 2017 Unemployment drops in Santa Cruz (Kavya Aswadhati) Scientists worried about California salmon extinction (Sydney Fishman) CalTrain goes electric, nearly doubling capacity (Maelin Rose) Santa Cruz marchers concerned about Monsanto (Melanie Gomez) Santa Cruz high school teachers developing an LGBTQ curriculum (Jordan Penland) Huge Mud Creek landslide closes Hwy 1 in Big Sur (...