KZYX Public Affairs

May 23, 2022--WDan moderates a debate between 3rd District Supervisor Incumbent John Haschak and Challenger Clay Romero. The Election is June 7th.

May 23, 2022--This week, MendoLatino celebrates the 15th annual Mendocino Film Festival. Diana Coryat and Loreto Rojas interview Missing in Brooks County's producer Jacob Bricca and The Keepers of the Corn's director Gustavo Vazquez, two of the features of this year's festival. Vasquez’s film Guardianes del Maíz focuses on the ancient corn seeds cultivated in Mexico and the people that keep the tr...

May 22, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, with listener calls about all things sports.

May 20, 2022--Alicia Bales talks with Walter Smith about PG&E's nightmare "Enhanced Vegetation Management" policy, a reactionary panic-driven campaign of clearcutting along their power lines throughout the region, with no oversight, landowner protections, or environmental safeguards.

May 19, 2022--Steve and Annie talk with Common Dreams Journalist Jessica Corbell about what it’s like to be a reporter when there is so much false news, so many existential issues to cover, dangerous times for reporters, and difficult financial times for news outlets.

May 19, 2022--Elizabeth Archer speaks with Paul Brumbaugh and Matt Drewno about what a good farm looks like in Mendocino County in the year 2022 and beyond.

May 19, 2022--Host Johanna Wildoak features two women who each tell compelling stories, one with words and one with images. She talks with local illustrator and photographer Leona Walden about the recently reissued Country Women, A Handbook for the New Farmer. A “back to the land” classic, this homesteading handbook chronicles the aspirations of tireless women seeking a new life on small farms aro...

May 18, 2022--Mari Rodin talks with Neeka Aguirre and Rebecca Montes of the Mendocino County Museum Advisory Board about the Mendocino County Museum in Willits and the possibility that budget shortfalls might force the county to close it.

May 17, 2022- Paul Schulman and Chad Swimmer take you on a walk in the forest above Jughandle Creek with Professor Emeritus and California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Specialist Teresa Sholars, and Zoom with San Jose State University Environmental Scientist Will Russell--talking about redwood forest ecology, unique plant communities and forest practices.

May 17, 2022--Elizabeth Archer and Fire Safe Council Executive Director Scott Cratty talk about the first annual Wildfire Safety Expo happening this weekend in Boonville.

May 16, 2022--Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians Tribal Chairman Michael Hunter updates listeners on the latest exciting developments in the community effort to create a Tribal Co-Management agreement in Jackson Demonstration State Forest.

May 15, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, with listener calls about all things sports.

May 13, 2022--Joy LaClaire presents interviews with three filmmakers, whose films will be screening at the Mendocino Film Festival. Each of the films deals with Indigenous Peoples Issues. Gustavo Vazquez on The Keepers of Corn, Alex Pritz on The Territory, and Dan Golding on Chasing Voices.

May 12, 2022--Host Chris Skyhawk talks with Joel Preston Smith, a photo-journalist who has used his skills on numerous humanitarian missions in such places as Iraq, Honduras, Palestine, Rwanda, and Standing Rock. He is the author of Night of a Thousand Stars and Other Portraits of Iraq, was published by Nazraeli Press (2006).

May 6, 2022--The Mendocino County Chapter of the League of Women Voters hosts this Candidates Forum with the candidates for Mendocino County Superintendent of Schools: Incumbent Michelle Hutchins, and Challenger Nicole Glentzer. Moderated by Pat Dunbar. Election Day is June 7th.

May 16, 2022--WDan moderates a debate between 5th District Supervisor Incumbent Ted Williams and Challenger John Redding. The Election is June 7th.

May 12, 2022--Alicia Bales hosts a special overview of the upcoming Primary Election on June 7, with Mendocino County Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie and Pat Dunbar of the Mendocino County Chapter of the League of Women Voters.

May 12, 2022--Host Jenn Procacci welcomes Mary Jane Oatman, Joe Montoya and Dan Turbyfill to discuss Native American cannabis culture and policy. Mary Jane Oatman is the founder of Indigenous Cannabis Coalition and publisher of THC (Tribal Hemp and Cannabis Magazine). Joe Montoya, known as Green Chief, is the tribal cannabis liaison and CEO of Green Chief Farms for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indi...

May 11, 2022--Doug and Alex host a show about new developments in Renewable Energy. With caller inspirations, questions and concerns.

May 11, 2022--Host Karen Ottoboni speaks with Alicia Bales and KZYX's News Director, Victor Palamino, about KZYX's new building and what it means for the growing news department. With listener calls.

May 10, 2022--Hosts Tim Bray and Bob Spies talk with Dr. Marshal Hedin of San Diego State University, about the amazing diversity and evolutionary history of Spiders. With more than fifty thousand species known and probably twice that many yet to be discovered, they have plenty to talk about.

May 9, 2022--Today's topics: changes in Medi-Cal presented by Andy Coren and Brenda Moreno Sanchez from Public Health. WestCenter informs about a grant for small businesses owners presented by Monserrat Plascencia and Eduardo Landeros. And Monica Flores of Mendocino College informs the public about a Job Fair and Registration Fiesta happening in Lake County and Ft. Bragg on May 12 and 13. This is...

May 10, 2022-- Dr. Marvin Trotter speaks with Shannon Todd, FNP about nurse practitioners and hospitalists and their roles in the hospital. With Alicia Bales engineering.

May 8, 2022--Join Jim and Jerry Young to get your sports fix on The Sports Phone, with listener calls about all things sports.

May 6, 2022--Cohosts Chad Swimmer and Roland Cory Medina interview Northern California Queer Folk Goddess, singer-songwriter Diane Patterson from Poland, near the Ukrainian border, where she is on tour taking her activist and poignant music on the road through Northern and Eastern Europe. They talk about her life, her music, and what she is seeing now on the ground on the edge of a war zone.