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A meadow at Little Basin, a recently opened expansion of Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Photo: littlebasin.org

Little Basin, the former Hewlett Packard retreat site has opened as an addition to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Also in the show: Santa Cruz County is one month into a new policy that changes how residents get groceries home; And Graeme Divine worked on some of the most popular video games in recent decades. Now he’s going solo and establishing GRL Games a new game company in Santa Cruz. He speaks with KUSP’s Kirby Scudder about a life in game design; KUSP takes a look at an invention from the Monterey Bay area that changed how kids play baseball; Jeff Dayton Johnson reviews a new album that marries classical and jazz, and David Anthony reviews the documentary Bully.

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In this week’s Talk of the Bay Dennis Morton reviews Salmon fishing in the Yemen and Jeff Dayton Johnson introduces us to three new albums demonstrating the relationships between jazz and traditional Moroccan music. First we look at an effort to plan for a transportation future that facilitates economic growth while improving the environment and meets the needs of the people who use roads, buses and sidewalks.

View Jeff Dayton Johnson’s Moroccan Jazz review

Related:

Thursday April 19 workshop agenda / Gary Patton’s LandUse Report

SCCRTC home page

Monterey County’s 2010 Long Range Transportation Plan

Transportation Cafe is the SCCRTC’s Community TV program: