Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Jessica Wall, a young, ambitious banker with First Federal. Wall says that banking is one of the few industries where you can start at age 18 with no degree (as she did) and work yourself up into the executive ranks. This single 20-something also manages find time to to play and party in Port Townsend.
This week on the Compass we reprise a program from last February about an artist and a scientist who collaborate to give a full picture of a community in Greenland, and a town meeting in which participants in the Marine Discoveries Intitiative give the program high marks.
This week on the Compass we take a look at the newly unveiled Climate Change Preparedness Plan for the North Olympic Peninsula, the product of two years of work by multiple agencies.
Nov. 11, 2015 – Ecologist, writer and philosopher Dr. Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, is interviewed by Nan Evans, and discusses various aspects of animal behavior. Closing music is “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” performed by Peter, Paul and Mary.
A soundscape of the Port Townsend Farmer’s Market, Mara makes Tzimmes, a traditional Jewish Holiday dish, and we visit Denise Joy at Mountain Spirit Herbs to make a nice winter tea blend.
Cris Wilson interviews Barbara Sjoholm, Port Townsend based biographer, travel writer, and translator: author of The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley, and With the Lapps in the High Mountains.
Nov. 4, 2015 – Host Debaran Kelso continues her phone conversation with wildlife biologist Patrick Loafman in Part 2 of this interview, and looks further into our local amphibians and their habitat. Closing music is “The Double Life of Amphibians,” performed by Two of a Kind.
Host Sheila Bender welcomes journalist and author Tony Brenna to the KPTZ studio, and digs into his career as a reporter for tabloids and mainstream media.
Should the Mentally Ill Go to Jail? Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Scott Rosecrans, the former prosecutor who was instrumental in setting up Jefferson County’s Mental Health Court. This innovative approach attempts to give mentally ill people the tools to stay out of jail.
This week on the Compass we take part in something called legislative theater in which the audience comes up with and debates new laws to fix our broken health care system while real legislators look on.
