Good Morning Monterey Bay

Ep. 565 - GMMB Tuesday 6 May 2025

Rachael stopped by with her book, Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate. She talked also of Minecraft in the library and who hangs up the phone after a call is finished.

Lynn Sullivan Chacon was also in the studio, talking about the Haven housing project planned for the open space between Hidden Glen in Scotts Valley and Henry Cowell park.

Ep. 564 - GMMB Monday 5 May 2025

Gail Pellerin let us know it is mental health month, and told us what a good time she had at Big Sur marathon, cheering on her daughter.

Mark Mozena's news on the proposed budget for Nasa was not encouraging. There was other space news as well.

• White House budget released last Friday - SpaceX and Mars and national security are winners but everything is is facing massive cuts to termination. 
• Old 1972 Soviet Venus probe that failed to leave earth orbit is about to reenter Earth. Soviet Cosmos 482
• Moon time - new push to have a standard clock for the moon
• Eta Aquarid meteor shower tonight - remnants of Halley’s Comet

The Ag report from Michael Olson included three topics today.

• A fellow was caught trying to bring 400 pounds of marijuana into Santa Cruz.
• We are losing the ability to manage the use of the word 'organic' properly.
• Santa Cruz has enacted a tax on sweetened drinks.

Ep. 563 - GMMB Friday 2 May 2025

Doctor Pete discussed how to get a dog to eat a new food. The trick that worked with his own dog involved bananas. He also talked about the current state of veterinary medicine. We have too few vets now, but several new schools are coming online.

Movies were quirky, but there were several favorites. They were The Surfer, with Nicholas Cage, Boujour Tristesse and Vulcanizadora.

Charlie was full of good ideas for gardening related gifts to give for Mother's Day.

Ep. 562 - GMMB Thursday 1 May 2025

In good news we heard of a group of volunteers in the UK who built a house extension for a disabled man and his family, as well as of a woman, also in the UK, who has rescued ten thousand animals.

Speaking of animals, a naughty duck made it into the traffic report several times today.

We heard May Day themed music.

Ep. 561 - GMMB Wednesday 30 Apr 2025

Jaime Smith answered the age old question, "Why does chicken go so well with fish?" Also, does the B.R.A.T. diet work? It does. We talked honey, too.

Christina "Cee Gee" Glynn, director of communications for Visit Santa Cruz County joined us in the studio. She's back from Frankfurt, France, London and Copenhagen where she was part of a group promoting California tourism. The counter to a bad image is good storytelling, which is what they did. March visitors to the U.S. numbered 12% fewer than in 2024, and they are tasked with improving that. She reminded us of so many places to go in Santa Cruz County, like the boardwalk, parks, wineries, breweries, restaurants and more.

Ep. 560 - GMMB Tuesday 29 Apr 2025

In good news we heard of a waitress who died, whose sister used her last day's tip money to start a project that ended up causing many people to do good deeds for many more, and resulted in a terrific video tribute to woman who died.

State senator John Laird spoke of his bill to enact protections related to battery energy storage systems like the one in Moss Landing. He compared his bill to another, proposed by assemblymember Dawn Addis. He also talked about sanctuary cities, and citizens' ability to move about the country, and to and from it, freely.

Ep. 559 - GMMB Monday 28 Apr 2025

In Good News we heard of a rare tree from Australia that is producing fruit in England for the first time, a boy who saved a calf, and the recent successfull running of the Big Sur International marathon.

Mark Mozena had lots of topics, not all of which we got to, so perhaps some will spill over into our next visit.

• Leadership and heads of launch safety in the FAA’s Commercial Space Office announce that they are leaving
• White House pushing NOAA to dramatically reduce its weather satellite program. 
• NASA Administrator nominee calls proposed science cuts ‘not ideal’. He will likely be voted out of Senate committee this week.
• White House announced they have cancelled the lease for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science - an institution in NYC dedicated to studying climate and earth science. Unclear where / if scientists will be moved. 
• China positioning itself as a science and exploration hub and attracting new partners to work with them. Sharing moon samples with foreign universities, hosting other countries’ payloads on lunar missions, and a new exploration and science plan for the moon, mars and science 
• Big potential future investments in security space!  Congress is suggesting increasing Defense budgets by $150B including support for Golden Dome and for updating space systems. 
• It is International Dark Sky Week this week!

Michael Olson told us a bit about the Hirahara house in Watsonville. If you would like to hear a more in depth discussion of that, listen to this episode of the Community Matters show.

Ep. 558 - GMMB Friday 25 Apr 2025

Dr. Pete let us know today is Penguin Awareness Day. He told us about penguin etiquette, which is mostly just people not getting to close to them.

Alex and Rosemary both liked several of this week's movies. The Accountant 2, Jimmy in Saigon and Cheech and Chong's Last Movie all got thumbs up from both of them.

Charlie said it is a banner year, both for neighborhood gardens and for wildflowers on the hillsides.