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Democracy Now is Back

(Airdate: March 3, 2025) KPTZ is bringing back Democracy Now on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11am to noon. In this Attention Please! we talked about the reasons for making this change. We started with some information sent in by KPTZ Program Coordinator Karen Anderson (who was unable to join us on-air). KPTZ General Manager Taylor Clark was joined live by Founding Program Coordinator Larry Stein and Board of Directors President Jon Pinnow. Listen in to learn more about your community radio station.

County Public Health Report ~ 3/03/25

This month Dr. Allison Berry, Public Health Officer for Clallam and Jefferson Counties, and Willie Bence, Director of Emergency Management for Jefferson County gave a report to the Board Of County Commissioners about communicable diseases, earthquakes, and community emergency prep. Dr. Berry also answered listener questions. There is a public information session on Neighborhood Prep at the the Jefferson County Library in Port Hadlock at 10:30am on March 20. Also, if you want to report on what you FELT when the earthquake happened this morning (10 miles deep off the coast of Orcas Island on 3/3/25 at 5am) go to https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/uw62078906/tellus.

County Connections

(Airdate: February 28, 2025) This week, County Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nolette and co-host Jim Burke welcome Jefferson County Tax Assessor Jeff Chapman to discuss how tax assessments are made, the difference between regressive taxes like sales tax and property taxes which are actually more fair, plus the fact that Jeff is in “the middle” between the County Commission and the citizens who pay the taxes. The song outro is from the band Trampled By Turtles, The Middle.

Brewocracy Now ~ 2/27/25

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro get together again with Danny Milholland and Zak Moser from The Production Alliance to talk more about the upcoming Connectivity Summit, which will take place March 7, 8, and 9 at Chimacum High School. More information here: https://www.theproductionalliance.org/events/connectivity If you want to hear a special moment in this show, go to 11:57 where John asks a great question about motivation and gets a great answer from Danny about the importance of connecting community. This is why we have community radio.

Help Celebrate David Grisman’s 80th Birthday

The KPTZ airwaves will brighten this Monday, March 3 with an on-air appearance by David Grisman and Tracy Bigelow Grisman that includes a live performance and discussion about David’s upcoming 80th birthday concert celebrations (March 23 at Field Hall in Port Angeles and March 25 at Seattle’s Moore Theatre). The event is hosted by KPTZ DJ Charlie Bermant as part of his regular program, Rocket Surgery. It begins at 3pm with the performance, with the remainder of the show devoted to folk and bluegrass.

#712 Learning About Nature in the Democratic Classroom, part 2

(Airdate: February 26, 2025) Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks again with Brittaney Drake about science visualization and bird illustration techniques. In Part I we talked to Brittaney about teaching nature at the Pearl Remote Democratic High School in Seattle, Washington, with focus on the democratic classroom. Today we will explore science illustration which is ‘art in service of science’ and discuss how bird illustration is used to teach art and nature in her democratic classroom. Brittaney uses a variety of bird illustration tools including black ink, gouache watercolor, colored pencil, and digital illustration to teach bird illustration.
Note: Nature Now provides credit for songs and calls of Pigeon Guillemot to xeno-canto, Thomas G. Graves, XC663793 http://www.xeno-canto.org/663793

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