All Episodes
Living Good Karma
On the WordPress build, category chips filter the list, the search box queries both episode content AND the collected listener responses in real time. Mark's admin view has the same filter panel for finding responses by keyword when producing the next episode.
Heather Made 34 Phone Calls.
During the 2020 Jones Fire, Grass Valley nurse Heather Calderón set up at the Nevada County Fairgrounds with a legal pad and her own phone. Thirty-four families found each other because of her. Then she went back to night shifts.
Why I Can't Build a Legal Kitchen.
Six months. Three plan revisions. Fees that doubled once the engineer stamped the drawings. Here's what it takes to add one permitted kitchen in Nevada County, and what it says about who actually gets to build in California.
The Librarian Who Pays for Strangers' Copies.
Anna Moreno has worked the reference desk at the Royce Branch in Grass Valley — a 1916 Carnegie library on Mill Street — for twenty-two years. She quietly covers the cost every time someone can't afford their copies. We talk about why she started, what keeps her going, and what she would tell the woman she was in 2003.
Each episode above is a WordPress custom post type (Episode). The question under each is a field on that post. Listener responses are a separate custom post type (Response) linked to the episode. The archive page pulls the latest episodes, sorted newest-first, filterable by category (taxonomy) or keyword tag. Mark's admin dashboard runs the same query to surface relevant past responses when he's producing the next episode.