Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 527 - GMMB Thursday 13 Mar 2025

Heidi Luckenback, water director for the city of Santa Cruz, was in the studio with us. She has been with the water department for 27 years, and knows so much that we are going to have to have her on a second time soon.

Kathleen J. Powell also spoke with us. She is the President and Co-Founder of Cinequest. She told us about the upcoming film festival.

Ep. 526 - GMMB Wednesday 12 Mar 2025

Bill explained how he makes corned beef and cabbage, which seemed strange to Rosemary. She then went to Jaime Smith for a pro's technique. Guess what? Just the same. Jaime then went on to talk about egg substitutes, and why it is best not to crack an egg on the edge of a pan or bowl, but on a flat surface.

Dan Haifley joined us. He expects today's vote to result in Justin Cummings remaining on the coastal commission. He also said the biggest threat to our marine sanctuary is the layoffs that have happened at NOAA. Also, we are considering adding more to the 27 offshore oil drilling platforms that exist off the California coast today.

Ep. 525 - GMMB Tuesday 11 Mar 2025

In good news we heard about a farm project for students. In the Live Oak school district an unused baseball field will become a farm, and the food grown there will be used in the school's kitchen to feed the students. It will be one of only four such programs in the country.

Rachel joined us for stories both funny and scary. Not the same story, but different ones, of one sort or the other.

Bill learned what a Dugger is. There are several. Rosemary knew all about them.

Ep. 524 - GMMB Monday 10 Mar 2025

Assemblymember Gail Pelerin was with us. She let us know who she will be recognizing as local woman of the year. It is Terry Hernandez. She will also soon be recognizing mental health officials. Of course she also had more to say about future Battery Energy Storage Systems.

Mark Mozina brought us these topics.

• US halts providing satellite imagery to Ukraine
• NASA terminates Offices of Chief Scientist and Office of Technology, policy, and strategy
• Trump fired (and then rehired) NOAA regulators for US Satellites
• SpaceX rocket breaks up in space after launch and showers debris onto Florida and Bahamas
• Suni and Butch are finally returning back to Earth this week - after 9month (“1 week”) trip to space station
• Total lunar eclipse - 11:30pm PT Thursday night (for about an hour - peak at midnight)

Michael Olson discussed the upcoming move of the downtown farmers' market, a pending bill to preserve agricultural land and a plan to have schools serving organic food.

Ep. 523 - GMMB Friday 7 Mar 2025

Dr. Pete brought up the subject of people who leave their estate to their pets when they die. That does not really relate to severe bloat in cows, but somehow we made that transition.

In the good news we heard of the discovery of an ancient asteroid impact crater in Australia, and also about a Burger King crew who honored one of their regular customers at his funeral.

Charlie talked about sugar bushes and pincushion flowers and more.

Rosemary said she has an exciting secret to tell Monday.

Ep. 522 - GMMB Thursday 6 Mar 2025

Gary Shapiro kept his promise of yesterday, to tell us why the 1967 movie Dr. Dolittl was such a stinker.

Yeshe Jackson was also with us. He is currently working on his biggest mural ever, about 30 by 40 feet. It is on the outside wall of Jenna Sue's Cafe in downtown Boulder Creek. It will depict Albert the peacock, who wandered the area for many years.

We heard accordion music, but we probably don't want to emphasize that here.

Phil from Sarasota contributed to our trivia questions. The subject was candy bars.

Ep. 521 - GMMB Wednesday 5 Mar 2025

Jaime Smith of My Food Smith was on. The topic was soups.

Gary Shapiro spoke of books written by Kevin Wade, Robin Green, Anthony Horowitz and others as well.

Consuela Alba let us know everything a body could want to about the Watsonville Film Festival.

Ep. 520 - GMMB Tuesday 4 Mar 2025

It's a small world. Today all the bumper music was from children's TV shows of the '60's, from Sid and Marty Kroft. Then when Rachael joined us in the third hour, she let us know that when she was in college, one of her college friends was in charge of Sid and Marty Kroft's production company. What a wonder.

John Laird was with us next. He of course had something to say about the future of battery energy storage systems in our area. He also said that during the recent fires down south, the feds turned the water off.