Taylor Clark and John Mauro‘s guest is Laura Parsons, who is with the city engineering department and has been spearheading the Discovery Road project which starts up in October. Learn more by listening in here, and checking the city website .
(Airdate: September 27, 2023) Thousands of crab pots go untended yearly in the Salish Sea; their release causes crab loss and ship damage. Jeff Taylor and Nathaniel Ashford describe their work to salvage those lost pots.
KPTZ joins with the League of Women Voters-Jefferson County in presenting three candidate forums, which will be broadcast live on 91.9 FM. The forums will take place on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, October 2 through 4 from 6-7pm.
– Monday, October 2 features candidates for Port Townsend School Board.
– Tuesday, October 3 has the candidates for Quilcene School Board Director-at-Large.
– Wednesday, October 4 is the race for Port Commissioner for the Port of Port Townsend.
Questions may be submitted in advance to lwvjeffcowa@gmail.com before noon on October 1. Then tune in to 91.9FM from 6-7pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 1 through 3, to hear the candidate forums live on KPTZ.
(June 29, 2023 – Sigmund Freud’s Cricket) Sigmund Freud walks into a bar with a cricket.
(Airdate: September 25, 2023) This week on Attention Please! Jim Burke has a NEW interview with Peter Lumsdaine with Physicians For Social Responsibility, and who visited Ukraine in the spring to interview people there in the war torn country. Then we have a REPEAT of Jim’s interview with Director of Emergency Management Willie Bence. They discuss disaster prep, resiliency, and GO BAGS and GO BUCKETS!
(September 23, 2023) This week’s County Connections features Jim Burke, co-host, County Administrator Mark McCauley, and County Treasurer Stacy Prada discussing the 2024- 25 biennial budget for Jefferson County.
(September 21, 2023) Mac Man – Inside the Macaroni and Cheese Industrial Complex.
Co-hosts Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro discussed the City Council Special Meeting that took place Monday about the golf course. Reportedly progress is being made.
(Reprise airdate: September 20, 2023) Tamanowas Rock-What is it? Nan Evans explores significant rocky out-croppings in Eastern Jefferson County – Tamanowas Rock and Peregrine Rock just west of Chimacum – with geologists Michael Machette and Jeff Tepper. In Part 1, we learn how Tamanowas Rock was formed, what it can tell about the ancient landscape of our region, why it is important to indigenous peoples, and what is being done to protect it.
(Airdate: September 19, 2023) Take a generous portion of adventure, mix in some garage engineering, some creative artistic license, add a healthy dose of humor and voila you have a prototype for one of the most captivating forms of racing: Kinetic Sculpture Racing. Michael Bitman maneuvers the ins and outs of the Kinetic Skulpture race as the Kourse Kommissioner and shares with Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can the history, art and engineering of this fun nonprofit. Connecting with this crowd guarantees belly laughs, engineering ingenuity, and artful opportunities.
