A weekly public affairs show about McKeesport and the Mon Valley, produced in cooperation with WEDO (810) and WZUM (1550).
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Z107.7 Joshua Tree Local News - your daily local news from the Morongo Basin's only independently-owned news source. News for Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms, Morongo Valley, Landers, Wonder Valley and all around the Hi Desert.
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Forum tells remarkable and true stories about who we are and where we live. In the first hour, Alexis Madrigal convenes the diverse voices of the Bay Area, before turning to Mina Kim for the second hour to chronicle and center Californians’ experience. In an increasingly divided world, Mina and Alexis host conversations that inform, challenge and unify listeners with big ideas and different viewpoints. Want to call/submit your comments during our live Forum program Mon-Fri, 9am-11am? We'd lo ...
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Z107.7 Local News for Saturday 11/02/24 - Haunted House final day, Day of the Dead, Desert Book Club,
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What Are Your Audio Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos?
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Dia de los Muertos gives us a yearly opportunity to remember loved ones who have passed away. In honor of the holiday, we provide our listeners with a radio altar. It’s a chance to call in and share testimonials – or audio ofrendas – for those who’ve left us. Have you recently lost a family member, a neighbor, a friend or even a celebrity you admir…
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The Modern Witch Wants You to be Self-Empowered
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The modern witch is more than a character from “Harry Potter.” She, he or they could be a co-worker, a neighbor or a friend who uses spells, spirituality and study to connect with ancestors, mystery or the divine. Throughout history and across cultures, witches have been persecuted – labeled as heretics, Satanists or just plain weird. But witches h…
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Celebrating 20 Years of ‘Modern Love’
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The New York Times’ Modern Love column debuted on Halloween 20 years ago, “three years before iPhones, eight years before Tinder, and 11 years before same-sex marriage became legal in the US.” We’ll look back at the heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking submissions from Modern Love readers about their loves, losses and complicated relationships.…
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Richard Powers’ Novel ‘Playground’ Explores Vastness of Oceans and AI
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Novelist Richard Powers has a way of making us see the world, and our place in it, in entirely new ways. His 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winning novel Overstory attuned readers to the power and mystery of trees. In his new novel, Playground, he focuses his awe and concern on marine life, the oceans and the perils we’ve inflicted on them. We talk to Powers …
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Z107.7 Local News for Thursday 10/31/24 - Happy Halloween!
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Your Last Minute Voting Questions, Answered
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Did you make a mistake filling out your ballot? Need a refresher on how ranked choice voting works? Wondering how to find your polling place? Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, and KQED’s Scott Shafer join us to take all of your voting questions ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Guests: Kim Alexander, president and founder, Ca…
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Washington Post, LA Times Pulling Harris Endorsements Spark Outrage
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Two major newspapers, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, will not publish planned endorsements for Kamala Harris for president. Those decisions, made last week after editorial boards at both papers their endorsements, have sparked outrage, hundreds of thousands of canceled subscriptions, and staff resignations. In an op-ed in the Washin…
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Z107.7 Local News for Wednesday 10/30/24 - Get out and Vote, Second chance native plants, Prop 32
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How Silicon Valley Became the ‘New Lobbying Monster’
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Big Tech-funded super PACs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars this election cycle to protect their interests in crypto and AI. In a piece for the New Yorker this month, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg says that “(n)ow that the tech industry has quietly become one of the most powerful lobbying forces in American politics, it…
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How Much Do We Need to Worry About the Election Being Overturned?
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Since Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the election in 2020, laws have been passed to protect our election results. But there has also been a concerted “election integrity” movement that has put election officials distrustful of the system in charge of local and county offices. And in California, only a third of congressional Republican incumbent…
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Z107.7 Local News for Tuesday 10/29/24 - MUSD Special meeting, JT Shelter hiring, Mil-Tree Garden
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‘Band People’ Highlights the Working Musicians Behind the Scenes
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You see them on stage every night – the musicians whose names are buried in the liner notes and driven by passion rather than by rockstar-dom. Franz Nicolay calls them “band people,” and for his new book, he interviewed over 60 of these session musicians, backup singers, and instrumentalists. They share stories about the realities of band life and …
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Is Social Media Activating or Repelling Voters This Election Cycle?
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The latest stars of TikTok and social media are not just influencers, they are presidential candidates. The campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have rapid response digital teams that are jumping on every meme, dance, and remix, some which feature the candidates. But are these efforts reaching new voters? Or is the “For You Page” just solidi…
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Z107.7 Local News for Sunday 10/27/24 - Development on private land inside Joshua Tree National Park
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Two Rivers 30 Minutes for 10-25-2024
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Ellie Kerns of PennEnvironment on why Pennsylvania has been slow to adopt renewable energy --- and what progress is happeningKirjoittanut Tube City Online - McKeesport
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Edie Falco and Tony Shalhoub Star in New Radio Play 'It Happened Here 2024'
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What happens if fascism takes root in the United States? Actors Edie Falco and Tony Shalhoub have teamed up to voice a new radio play called “It Happened Here 2024.” The play, adapted by Richard Dresser from his own novel, imagines an authoritarian country in 2039 where elections are a thing of the past and the rule of law has collapsed. We’ll talk…
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Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on Using Music as Medicine
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Neuroscientist and musician Daniel Levitin says we can trace beliefs about music’s power to heal mind, body and spirit back 20,000 years, to the Upper Paleolithic era. But only recently have we had good science to explain how music affects us and how we can use it therapeutically. Not only to relax, uplift and bring us together, but as part of trea…
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Should You Be Giving Your DNA to Consumer Health Companies?
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It’s been nearly twenty years since 23andMe, the consumer health company was founded. Since then, other companies have emerged, and in exchange for a tube of spit, a puff of breath, or a drop of blood, consumers can now not only find their ancestry and long-lost relatives, but learn what to eat that day or discover food sensitivities and propensity…
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Z107.7 Local News for Friday 10/25/24 - Recycling notices, Morongo Dog Mayor, Mon Petit Mojave Movie
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