KZYX Public Affairs

May 4, 2021--Join the “International City Nature Challenge” from the comfort of your own radio! The Ecology Hour this week looks at this worldwide observation and citizen science effort, and how Mendocino County has been involved. Host Hannah Bird talks with some of the partners who spent the weekend observing all living things, and explains how you can participate in this great identification eff...

May 4, 2021--This week on Mind/Body Health, Dr. Marvin Trotter speaks with Anderson Valley Health Center’s one and only Dr. Mark Apfel. They talk about Primary Care and “POLST,” or Portable Medical Orders, which allow patients to do advance care planning that is valid outside of the clinic or doctor’s office. With Cob engineering.

May 2, 2021--Jayma Shields Spence hosts this month's edition of Youth Speaks Out! Introduced and produced by Dan Roberts, Jayma talks with her colleagues in Laytonville's schools about their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. The interviews include a teacher, and school psychologist, a student and a school principal.

May 2, 2021--This week “Radio Ha Ha For Kids” (And Their Families & Friends) explores “The Fascinating & Incredible World Of Tortoises & Turtles” with host Jim Beatty, The Dancing Grandpa. Featuring songs, dance, stories, the “listening game”, fun facts, & more, “Radio Ha Ha For Kids” is listening fun for everyone, young, old and in between. Tune in LIVE and dance, sing and play ev...

April 30, 2021--Host Bob Bushansky and Phil Warf, Political Science Professor at Mendocino College, are live in the studio for a Fifth Friday conversation looking at President Biden's First 100 Days in office.

April 29, 2021--Join the Mendocino Theatre Company for a reading of the one-act comedy WOMAN'S HONOR by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. It's a witty satire of the sexual double standard that is sure to make you smile!

April 29, 2021--KZYX is pleased to broadcast the newest lecture in the Mendocino College Symposium Series: Caring Classrooms and Communities, Supporting Mendocino County Students' Mental Health Needs Now and Beyond the Pandemic by Vincent Poturica. Many Mendocino County students have been affected by trauma related to poverty, wildfires, racism, and other issues. Students' responses to trauma and...

April 29, 2021-- Host Jenn Procacci speaks with Charles Sargenti and MCA's Michael Katz about the latest in the saga to update Mendocino County's Cannabis Ordinance, including land use and zoning changes, Phase III, and the possibility of not one but two voter referendums.

April 28, 2021--Join host Karen Ottoboni for a conversation with Mendocino County District Attorney Dave Eyster. TKO is open lines on local politics. Listen live and call in every other Wednesday at 9am on KZYX and Z.

April 27, 2021--Our ocean is the Earth's "Blue Heart" covering 72 % of our planet . . . and it's in bad shape. With more than 300 tons of plastic produced annually, less than 5% is recycled. Where does much of it end up? You guessed it, in the ocean! On thie edition of the Ecology Hour on KZYX, guest host John Azzaro speaks with Mary Crowley, founding director of Ocean Voyages Institute dedicated...

April 27, 2021--This week on Mendocino Fire Safe Council Radio, host Scott Cratty talks with Albion-Little River Fire Chief Michael Rees about life at a rural, volunteer Fire Department. With tips to help you survive and thrive in the coming fire season, and the most common things you should do to help make sure you don't accidentally start the next wildfire.

April 26, 2021--This week on Mendolatino: our relationship with nature and our forests. Hosts Diana Coryat and Loreto Rojas speak with Esme Placencia about her program, Latino Outdoors, and Chad Swimmer, the president of the Mendocino Trail Stewards, about Jackson State Forest. Dr. Coren provides a brief update about the vaccination campaign underway in our County. Este lunes MendoLatino enfocará...

April 25, 2021--This edition of “Radio Ha Ha For Kids” (And Their Families & Friends) celebrates “Good Friends, Good Fun and GOOD RADIO!” It’s the “Flash Drive Show” with Jim Beatty, The Dancing Grandpa. Featuring songs, dance, stories, the “listening game”, fun facts, & more. It sounds like FUN!

April 23, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young host the Sports Phone, a community call in show about all things sports.

April 23, 2021--Byline Mendocino is a local media round table, featuring local reporters in conversation about the week’s headlines, with host Alicia Bales. This week’s panel features local freelance reporter Frank Hartzell and Sarah Reith of the KZYX Local News. The panel is joined in the 2nd half of the hour by Aaron Glantz, Senior Investigations Editor at NPR's California Newsroom.

April 22, 2021--Michelle Hutchins, County Superintendent of Schools, interviews Mendocino County Science Fair winners. She talks with the ten students who represented Mendocino County at the State Science Fair to learn about what inspired their projects.

April 22, 2021--Johanna “Wildoak” talks with Dr. Noliwe Rooks, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature at Cornell University, about her most recent book Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education. Also, a look back at Earth Day 2021 from Earth Day 2031.

April 21, 2021--Join hosts Bob Laughton and Jim Heid for KZYX's call-in computer show, Point and Click, all things computed.

April 21, 2021--On this edition of Forthright Radio, host Joy LaClaire speaks with Senior Correspondent at Vox, Ian Millhiser, about the decline of liberal democracy in the US and his latest book, THE AGENDA: HOW A REPUBLICAN SUPREME COURT IS RESHAPING AMERICA.

April 20, 2021--This week on The Ecology Hour, two local members of Elders Climate Action, Margo Frank and Steve Zuieback have a conversation about simple things you can do to lower your carbon footprint and make an impact on climate change. They share some individual and community actions you can join at the local, state and national level and they’ll inspire you with hopeful and positive changes...

April 20, 2021--This week on Mind/Body Health, Dr. Marvin Trotter speaks with Kate Feigin, Project Director at the Drug Free Communities Coalition, about whippits, and why she believes they should be banned, including from being sold at head shops.

April 19, 2021--Pomo Perspective features Priscilla Hunter, Pomo Elder and former Chairwoman of the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, and Polly Girvin, Environmental activist and Indigenous Rights Attorney. The Coyote Valley Band of Pomo has recently requested Government to Government Consultation with the State of California to discuss their opposition to the timber operations proposed in their...

April 16, 2021--Jim and Jerry Young host The Sports Phone, a call in community conversation on all things sports. Listen live and call in every Friday night at 7pm on KZYX and Z.

April 16, 2021--This week On Politics: A Love Story, Bob Bushansky speaks with Tsun Mei Cheng, widow of Uwe Reinhardt who authored “Priced Out - The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care”. Tsun Mei worked closely with her husband, wrote the epilogue, and had the book published after his death. She is a Health Policy Research Analyst at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Internati...

April 15, 2021--On this first episode of Universal Perspectives, host Chris Skyhawk remembers Joe Louis Wildman with Raul Gardea of SEIU Local 2015, and gives an update on the treesit in Jackson Demonstration State Forest with a member of the support team.