(Airdate: June 19, 2025 – A Trip to Mars)
Forgetting – An Essay
(Airdate: June 12, 2025 – Forgetting – An Essay)
Brewocracy Now ~ 7/17/25
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed PT Mayor David Faber. We talked about the recent Council offsite full day planning session, as well as how that fits into budgeting process. We also discussed situation with the misinformation that seems to be out there regarding the city financial situation.
LWV Forum – PT Council Position 1
(Airdate: July 16, 2025) This League of Women Voters forum is for the three candidates for Port Townsend City Council Position 1 in the August 5, 2025 primary election. The candidates are Mikki Porter, Dylan Quarles, and Fred Obee. Mikki Porter was not in attendance, although his representative offered opening and closing statements.
#732 The Owls of Bainbridge Island (Part 1)
(Airdate: July 16, 2025) Please join Nature Now as we learn more about the owls of Bainbridge Island! Host Debaran Kelso and field recorder Meg Amos meet with guest Jamie Acker in his own backyard wildlife sanctuary, to speak about his work studying owls near his home on Bainbridge Island for the past 25 years.
Local News for 7/14/25
July 16-31 KPTZ Programming Highlights
For a compendium of upcoming featured programs, check KPTZ Spotlight for July 16-31. Many of our program hosts provide specifics about what’s planned for this half month. If you’re not already a Spotlight subscriber, you’re invited to join our Mailing List. See KPTZ’s current Weekly On-Air Schedule and Daily Program Schedule.
Silk – 79
(Airdate: July 15, 2025) We’re at the Mogao Caves, visiting Caves 16 and 17, where the ancient world’s single most important collection of books was found by a Chinese monk in 1901 and then sold by him a number of years later for the equivalent of two hundred English pounds. Among the collection was the earliest known printed book, as well as that exculpatory form letter for drunks to use the morning after. Our guide completed her account of how China’s greatest literary treasure was stolen by a couple of foreigners, and then we moved on to begin our tour of Mogao’s other treasures—its wall paintings. They Constitute China’s greatest art gallery, as well as its richest source of information about cultural exchange on the Silk Road….
The Pot Caper
(Airdate: July 10, 2025 – The Pot Caper)
Brewocracy Now ~ 7/10/25
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed State Representative Adam Bernbaum (24th District) as well as Port Townsend Mayor David Faber. We talked about the intersection of goals and budget. If you listen to nothing else, check out Rep. Bernbaum at 9:05 in the recording to hear what he says about budgeting and outcomes. He has great clarity.
