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BART's Coming Off the Rails from 2020-04-10T08:00
Bevan Dufty, a member of the BART board of directors, discusses how the already struggling transit agency has seen a 94 percent plunge in ridership during the coronavirus pandemic and how it will e...
ListenHow to Combat Shutdown Loneliness from 2020-04-08T08:00
Madeline Dangerfield-Cha, the co-founder of Mon Ami, a service that matches volunteers with isolated seniors, talks to Heather Knight about the epidemic of loneliness during our new coronavirus rea...
ListenGlide in the Time of COVID-19 from 2020-04-07T08:00
Karen Hanrahan, CEO and president of Glide, the famous Tenderloin church and social service provider, tells Heather Knight about the livestream church services and what coronavirus is teaching us a...
ListenHomeless and Desperate from 2020-04-03T20:41:55
Kristie Fairchild, executive director of North Beach Citizens, talks about how more homeless people are seeking help since food and spare change from tourists and other passersby have dried up due ...
ListenSan Francisco After COVID-19 from 2020-04-01T16:48:33
Cities have long weathered public health crises and emerged stronger because of them. Benjamin Grant, urban design policy director at SPUR, talks with Heather Knight about the ways San Francisco wi...
ListenIs the Coronavirus Surge Still Coming? from 2020-03-31T00:41:06
Have we flattened the curve? Dr. Allison Bond, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, gives Heather Knight an inside view of San Francisco hospitals — which, so far, seem like a calm before a storm....
ListenInside San Francisco's Emergency Command Center from 2020-03-27T08:00
Ivy Lee, a legislative aide, is among the hundreds of City Hall staff members who've been spending long days inside Moscone Center to prepare for the expected surge in coronavirus cases. She talks ...
ListenCoronavirus: A Disaster for Small Businesses from 2020-03-24T22:49
The shutdown to stem the coronavirus outbreak has already destroyed some small businesses, including the one owned by Sharky Laguana, president of San Francisco's Small Business Commission, who tal...
ListenTreating Victims of S.F.’s Traffic Violence from 2020-03-13T08:00
Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital, regularly treats pedestrians and bicyclists mowed down by cars. He speaks with host Heather Knight about the uptick in mayhem...
Listen“This Is Going to Be Catastrophic” from 2020-03-12T08:30
San Franciscan Amanda Kahn Fried is on sabbatical in Italy, a coronavirus hot spot where events seem to be a few weeks ahead of the Bay Area. She tells Heather Knight what it’s like to live under l...
ListenFifth&Mission: A Top S.F. Doctor on the Coronavirus from 2020-03-12T08:00
Dr. Andre Campbell, a longtime trauma surgeon and ICU doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, tells Heather Knight on the Chronicle’s flagship podcast what to expect with COVID-19 in the weeks ah...
ListenThe Bart Board President's Big Dreams from 2020-03-03T09:00
Lateefah Simon, a legally blind single mom who commuted on BART for years before she was elected president of its board of directors in December, talks with Heather Knight about her plans for the b...
ListenRace, Power and Inequity in San Francisco from 2020-02-28T09:00
Shakirah Simley, director of the new Office of Racial Equity, talks with Dominic Fracassa about rooting out and repairing the racial harms caused by city policies. | Get unlimited Chronicle access....
ListenThere's a New Sheriff in Town from 2020-02-27T09:00
Paul Miyamoto was sworn in at a pivotal moment for criminal justice reform in San Francisco. He tells Dominic Fracassa about the future of the city’s crumbling Hall of Justice and his vow to protec...
ListenVilaska Nguyen: Comedian, Public Defender and S.F. Supervisor Candidate from 2020-02-13T09:00
In a crossover episode with Total SF, Nguyen joins hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight to announce his candidacy for District 7 supervisor, talk about how Jeff Adachi inspired his comedy and wh...
ListenYoung, Homeless and Alone on the Streets from 2020-02-11T09:00
Sherilyn Adams, director of Larkin Street Youth Services, talks about youth homelessness and debunks myths about the crisis in San Francisco. | Help Chronicle Podcasts serve you better! Take our su...
ListenCorruption in the Public Works Department from 2020-02-07T09:00
Supervisor Matt Haney has long been frustrated by the filthy streets and lack of trash cans and public restrooms in his district. He was outraged by Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru's alleged corru...
ListenFifth&Mission Live: Primaries 2020 from 2020-02-06T07:19:23
In this episode of the Chronicle's flagship news podcast, Fifth&Mission, Editor in Chief Audrey Cooper, politics writer Joe Garofoli and columnists Heather Knight and Phil Matier talk about Iowa, t...
ListenThe Rare San Francisco Trump Supporter from 2020-02-04T09:00
John Dennis, waging his fourth campaign against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, discusses what it's like to be among the 6.6% of city residents registered to vote as a Republican and why he backs Presi...
ListenSuper Excited for the Super Bowl from 2020-01-29T18:35:31
Supervisor Shamann Walton, City Hall's No. 1 49ers fan, talks about his Super Bowl party and plans for a victory parade up Market Street if the Niners win their first ring in 25 years. Plus: Cable ...
ListenFifth&Mission: Bombshell Arrest of "MrCleanSF" from 2020-01-29T02:03
San Francisco City Insider host Heather Knight joins Audrey Cooper and Evan Sernoffsky in this breaking news episode of the Fifth&Mission podcast from the San Francisco Chronicle, which we're prese...
ListenWhy San Francisco Needs a Safe Injection Site from 2020-01-28T09:00
For years, drug addiction expert Alex Kral has been studying a secret safe injection site in an undisclosed American city. He says San Francisco has to open its own site to cope with its drug crisi...
ListenNo Love for the Haight from 2020-01-24T09:00
Endless construction, high rents and increasing labor costs are harming businesses in the Haight. Booksmith owner Christin Evans, president of the neighborhood's merchant association, tells Heather...
ListenThe Public Defender Makes His Case from 2020-01-21T09:00
Mano Raju has big shoes to fill in replacing the late Jeff Adachi. He talks about the election of his fellow public defender Chesa Boudin to the district attorney's office and his efforts to make j...
ListenThree Years of Rage from 2020-01-14T09:00
Raveena Rihal and Palak Sheth co-founded the Post March Salon (PMS) after the first Women's March three years ago. Their anger over President Trump's policies and commitment to change has only deep...
ListenSpending San Francisco's Big Bucks from 2020-01-07T09:00
Treasurer Jose Cisneros talks about the city's whopping $12.3 billion budget and why he's directing more of it to kindergarteners, airport workers and low-income people. Learn more about your ad ch...
ListenBest of City Insider: New Muni Director from 2020-01-03T09:00
Jeffrey Tumlin took over on Dec. 16. In case you missed it, you can hear him talk in November about his plans to chart a new path for San Francisco that will prioritize buses, bikes and pedestrians...
ListenBest of City Insider: Chesa Boudin from 2019-12-30T09:00
He came on the podcast as one of four candidates. Now he's the district attorney-elect. Hear how he'll operate as San Francisco's top prosecutor. First published Sept. 17. Learn more about your ad ...
ListenBest of City Insider: Vision Zero Isn’t Working from 2019-12-27T09:00
Janice Li, a Bicycle Coalition staffer and BART director, talks about how San Francisco's program to eliminate traffic deaths is big on marketing and short on actual answers. First published Aug. 3...
ListenThe Most Loved Librarian in America from 2019-12-23T09:00
San Francisco Public Library reference librarian Janet Tom has just won a national award for, yes, being loved. She tells us about her job and why the city's libraries are so well-liked. Learn more...
ListenThe Drug Crisis, Firsthand from 2019-12-20T09:00
Thomas Wolf was an employed, married father of two when he got hooked on painkillers after surgery. He fell into homelessness and heroin addiction in the Tenderloin before pulling himself out. He t...
ListenA Rocky Year at City Hall from 2019-12-18T09:00
Columnist Heather Knight and reporters Dominic Fracassa and Trisha Thadani discuss the major stories of 2019 and preview what's to come in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
ListenSacred sleep from 2019-12-10T09:00
Shannon Eizenga, executive director of the Gubbio Project, discusses why it's so hard for homeless people to sleep and how offering them church pews for rest makes a difference. Learn more about yo...
ListenTalking Trash from 2019-12-06T09:00
John Porter, vice president of Recology, discusses changes the garbage collection agency is making to help clean up San Francisco's notoriously dirty streets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
ListenDean Preston’s Big Plans from 2019-12-02T09:00
The supervisor-elect who beat London Breed ally Vallie Brown in November talks to reporter Trisha Thadani about his plans to shake up the status quo when he joins the Board of Supervisors in Decemb...
ListenHungry in San Francisco from 2019-11-27T20:29:57
Paul Ash, executive director of the San Francisco Food Bank, talks about how food pantries are cropping up at local colleges because students are broke after paying tuition, and how he scrapes toge...
ListenByron Cobb: Cable Car Bell Ringing Champion from 2019-11-26T09:00
A crossover The Big Event and S.F. City Insider episode. Hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight interview Byron Cobb, the reigning Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest champion and eight-time winner. Pr...
ListenMeet Your New Muni Director from 2019-11-23T09:00
Jeffrey Tumlin, who will start one of the city's hardest jobs on Dec. 16, plans to chart a new path for San Francisco that will prioritize buses, bikes and pedestrians over private vehicles and "su...
ListenThe Effort to End Domestic Violence from 2019-11-19T09:00
Esta Soler, founder of Futures Without Violence, talks with Heather Knight about the 25th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act and her plan for a new Courage Museum in the Presidio. Learn ...
ListenSF Takes Big Step Toward Mental Health Care Reform. What's next? from 2019-11-14T20:13:23
After months of political bickering, San Francisco's leaders have united behind an ambitious, expensive plan to fix the city's broken mental health care system. Chronicle City Hall reporters Trisha...
ListenMaking San Francisco's Streets Safer from 2019-11-08T09:00
Bicycle Coalition executive director Brian Wiedenmeier discusses the new car-free Market Street plan, his dream of a car-free Golden Gate Park, and why he's always polite while bicycling around the...
ListenToo Close to Call: Election Night Recap from 2019-11-06T21:31:27
With the ballots still being counted, Chronicle columnist Heather Knight and City Hall reporter Dominic Fracassa talk about the district attorney's race, the neck-and-neck competition for district ...
ListenCelebrating Transgender Awareness Month from 2019-11-05T09:00
Clair Farley, director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives, talks about her own transition and the importance of pushing progressive LGBTQ policies while the White House spreads transphobia. ...
ListenJonathan Moscone: 41 Years Without Dad from 2019-10-18T08:00
The late Mayor George Moscone’s son recalls the horrible day his father was assassinated alongside Supervisor Harvey Milk. Moscone, chief producer for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, also discusse...
ListenShould 17-year-olds get to vote? from 2019-10-15T11:00
Ella Yitzhaki, a senior at Lowell High, has become an advocate for amending the California constitution to allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they'll be 18 by the general election. She talk...
ListenLosing Summer from 2019-10-11T08:00
Ten months. Nearly 30 visits to the psychiatric ER. And a suicide. Summer’s story reveals the weaknesses in San Francisco’s mental illness and addiction treatment system. Learn more about your ad c...
Listen“Off to the Races” Already from 2019-10-05T17:01
(Originally published March 4, 2019.) With the election nine months away, nearly $200,000 has already been poured into the race for the District Five seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
ListenSan Francisco's New Political Spot from 2019-10-03T08:00
Manny Yekutiel looks back on the first year of Manny's, discusses the importance of civic engagement and talks about why he'd never let Donald Trump — or any other Republican — speak there. Learn m...
ListenFifth&Mission: Rocks and Hard Places from 2019-10-01T18:48
We're sharing this episode of The Chronicle's Fifth&Mission podcast, in which SF City Insider host Heather Knight joins Kevin Fagan and Demian Bulwa to talk about the infamous boulders on Clinton P...
ListenTotal SF: Warriors president Rick Welts interview from 2019-09-24T03:45
Warriors president Rick Welts joins the San Francisco Chronicle's #TotalSF team Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight for a The Big Event/SF City Insider podcast crossover. Welts makes the case to add ...
ListenTaking a Shot at the NRA from 2019-09-19T08:00
Supervisor Catherine Stefani made national news when her resolution calling the National Rifle Association "a domestic terrorist organization" passed the Board of Supervisors unanimously. She talks...
ListenDA Tuesday: Chesa Boudin from 2019-09-17T08:00
The most progressive candidate in the race for San Francisco district attorney is a public defender who's been visiting his father in prison since he was a baby. He discusses the major changes he'd...
ListenA Little Dignity for the Homeless from 2019-09-16T19:13:18
Doniece Sandoval, the founder of Lava Mae, which brings mobile showers and toilets to the streets, discusses City Hall's sluggishness, how parents can explain street misery to their kids, and what ...
ListenDA Tuesday: Suzy Loftus from 2019-09-10T08:00
The front-runner in the race discusses what she'd do about San Francisco's biggest problems, including untreated mental illness on our streets, drug dealing and car break-ins. Learn more about your...
ListenDA Tuesday: Nancy Tung from 2019-09-03T08:00
In the second of four interviews with the candidates for San Francisco district attorney, Nancy Tung, the most conservative of the candidates — by San Francisco standards, of course — talks about p...
ListenWhy San Francisco's Vision Zero Isn't Working from 2019-08-30T11:00
Janice Li, a Bicycle Coalition staffer and BART director, talks about how San Francisco's program to eliminate traffic deaths is big on marketing and short on actual answers. Plus: What's in store ...
ListenDA Tuesday: Leif Dautch from 2019-08-27T09:00
In the first of four interviews with the candidates for San Francisco district attorney, Leif Dautch talks about how he'd remake the troubled office and his plans for a 150-bed mental health center...
ListenAn Attack, a Video and the Fallout from 2019-08-27T08:00
The harrowing viral video of an attack on a woman trying to enter her waterfront condo has reignited debate over how San Francisco ought to balance helping those in crisis with ensuring public safe...
ListenS.F.’s First Openly LGBT Fire Chief from 2019-08-13T08:00
Jeanine Nicholson talks about her cancer battle, what San Francisco should do about its homeless epidemic and whether we’re really prepared for a massive earthquake. Plus: Her favorite burrito spot...
ListenAn Epidemic of Untreated Mental Illness from 2019-08-08T08:00
San Francisco is compelling far fewer mentally ill people into mandated treatment. Columnist Heather Knight and City Hall reporter Dominic Fracassa discuss the rise in clearly untreated mental illn...
ListenLiving on the Cheap in One of the World's Most Expensive Cities from 2019-08-06T08:00
As his name implies, Broke-Ass Stuart's whole shtick is living a big life with little cash. But that's become harder than ever in San Francisco. The city character explains how he does it and offer...
ListenTreating San Francisco Homelessness Like a Real Emergency from 2019-08-02T08:00
If San Francisco experienced a major fire or earthquake and thousands of residents were suddenly homeless, would the city form task forces and appoint an expert to study the problem? Kara Zordel, C...
ListenInto the Weeds with SF's Cannabis Czar from 2019-07-29T19:14:07
As director of San Francisco's cannabis office, it's former prosecutor Marisa Rodriguez's job to grow the city's legal pot economy. One of her top priorities? Ensuring victims of the War on Drugs g...
ListenWhat Does London Lack That SF Has in Abundance? Misery on the Streets from 2019-07-11T16:49:14
In talking to friends and colleagues who’ve done their own recent traveling, it’s clear to columnist Heather Knight that many cities around the world and the U.S. maintain a better quality of life ...
ListenBreaking Down the Budget from 2019-07-02T16:44:50
How does a city with a $12 billion budget still have so many problems? City Hall reporters Dominic Fracassa and Trisha Thadani break down how the $12 billion budget isn't actually as much as it see...
ListenThe Fight Over the Embarcadero Navigation Center from 2019-06-27T08:00
Everyone agrees San Francisco must address its homelessness problem, but the fierce debate over the Embarcadero navigation center highlights how hard that is to do. Trisha Thadani and Dominic Fraca...
ListenPoverty and Financial Justice in San Francisco from 2019-06-24T08:00
For the past two years, San Francisco's Financial Justice Project has been working to eliminate government fees and fines that are particularly painful, and in some cases, ruinous, to the city's p...
ListenMaking Sense of the Affordable Housing Mess from 2019-06-21T18:43:03
The mayor and a few members of the Board of Supervisors are battling over the best way to build more affordable and teacher housing. Both sides have proposals for the November ballot. We try to unt...
ListenTaxing Wealthy Companies to Solve SF's Problems from 2019-06-18T11:00
Should San Francisco raise taxes on prosperous companies to help pay for the city's most gripping problems? Between a tax on IPO's, Uber and Lyft and exorbitantly paid CEO's voters will have plenty...
ListenFinding the Tipping Point on Homelessness from 2019-05-31T08:00
Daniel Lurie is the CEO and founder of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit in San Francisco. He tells Heather Knight that the solution to homelessness is homes, but also that we can all help t...
ListenTotal SF Live! with Amanda Guest, Emily Silverman, Tara Ramroop and Eugenia Chien from 2019-05-27T10:29
A crossover episode of The Big Event and San Francisco City Insider podcasts, recorded live on May 16, 2019, at the Betabrand Podcast Theater in the Mission District. San Francisco Chronicle pop cu...
ListenOpioid Addiction: One Family's Story from 2019-05-24T10:00
When 33-year-old Jeffrey Choate’s parents saw their son, homeless and addicted to heroin and meth, in Heather Knight's San Francisco Chronicle column, they wanted to tell her about how he ended up ...
ListenI Left My Heart - and Wallet, iPhone and Sanity - in San Francisco from 2019-05-14T11:00
Joe D’Allesandro, director of S.F. Travel, took City Hall to task a year ago for doing so little to improve safety and quality-of-life on the city’s streets. Between poop, needles, tent camps and c...
ListenMid-Market: Vision and Reality from 2019-05-10T17:45
We're sharing this episode of the Chronicle's flagship Fifth&Mission podcast about the expiring “Twitter tax break,” created by San Francisco in 2011 to draw companies to the downtrodden Mid-Market...
ListenSan Francisco’s Deadly Streets - And What Could Help from 2019-05-03T07:45
Five years ago, city officials vowed to eliminate all traffic deaths in 10 years in a safe streets program dubbed Vision Zero. Halfway through those 10 years, San Francisco is making no progress in...
ListenHomeless Navigation Centers: Now What? from 2019-04-30T22:44
The city's plan to build a homeless shelter on the Embarcadero faces a legal challenge. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s homelessness department, talks about the need to balance an emphas...
ListenFixing SF's Behavioral Health System Is Difficult. Here's Why. from 2019-04-12T11:00
Something isn’t working within San Francisco’s behavioral health care system, but city officials don't exactly know how to fix it yet. City Hall reporter Trisha Thadani breaks down why it's so comp...
ListenTribute to the Richmond District from 2019-04-10T11:00
A tribute to the Richmond District, recorded at the historic Balboa Theatre, before a #TotalSF screening of "So I Married an Axe Murderer." San Francisco columnist Heather Knight and The Big Event ...
ListenAmerica’s Most Woke Library from 2019-04-09T11:00
A chat with Michael Lambert, San Francisco’s new city librarian. The title sounds pretty old-school, but the city’s libraries are anything but. They’re about to become fine free. They host drag que...
ListenThe Queen of Car Break-ins from 2019-03-29T11:00
Shirin Oloumi is known as the Queen of Car Break-ins. She doesn't break into cars. She prosecutes the people who do. Every car break-in that leads to an arrest in San Francisco crosses her desk, an...
ListenWhy S.F. General's bills are so damn high from 2019-03-22T11:00
Now that San Francisco General Hospital’s sketchy billing practice—in which privately insured patients are personally on the hook for their bills—have been revealed, there’s a central question: Why...
ListenInside San Francisco’s Mental Health Crisis from 2019-03-12T11:00
Rachel Rodriguez, a social worker in San Francisco General Hospital’s psychiatric emergency room, is incensed at the way some people are painting the move toward conserving more mentally ill people...
Listen“Difficult” Supervisor Hillary Ronen from 2019-03-01T12:00
From her insistence she wasn’t elected president of the Board of Supervisors because of sexist ideas about her being “difficult” to her drive to build more homeless navigation centers and shelters ...
ListenA State Solution for SF General’s Brutal Billing Practices from 2019-02-24T12:00
Assemblyman David Chiu has heard the stories - of regular San Franciscans going to S.F. General with appendicitis, broken bones and migraines and getting stuck with a bill for tens of thousands of ...
ListenSeeking Small Miracles for the Homeless from 2019-02-08T12:00
Miracle Messages uses social media to try to connect homeless people in San Francisco with long-lost love ones in hopes of getting them back home with someone who cares about them. They’ve matched ...
ListenAn Early Look at the Race to Become San Francisco’s Next District Attorney from 2019-02-06T21:00
Columnist Heather Knight and Hall of Justice reporter Evan Sernoffsky discuss the already crowded field to replace San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. For the first time in about a centu...
ListenCity Attorney Dennis Herrera and the S.F. Voting Controversy from 2019-01-29T12:00
San Francisco voters have recently approved major tax increases to fund homeless services, teacher pay raises and childcare, but the money’s being kept under theoretical lock and key until the cour...
ListenSan Francisco School Teachers and Their Struggle to Survive from 2019-01-25T12:00
Stephen Torres-Esquer, an award-winning special education teacher at Lowell High, talks about how hard it is to make it in one of the world’s most expensive cities on such a paltry salary. As San F...
ListenDoes City Hall Have the Fix for District Six? from 2019-01-11T12:00
New Supervisor Matt Haney has barely begun his new job representing District 6, but he’s already deluged with meeting requests, emails and tweets from residents fed up with the filth, needles and f...
ListenThe Great Progressive Compromise from 2019-01-11T04:10
For the first time in years, progressives have a majority on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, but their inability to unify around a single candidate for board president shows they have a lon...
ListenBest of City Insider: Jane Kim from 2019-01-04T12:00
Jane Kim was a San Francisco Supervisor who was running for mayor when she talked to Chronicle columnist Heather Knight for this episode, which ran on March 21, 2018. Kim, who lost in her mayoral b...
ListenBest of City Insider: Marc Benioff from 2018-12-31T12:00
The 61st floor of the Salesforce Tower was the setting for San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight's interview with CEO Marc Benioff just before the 2018 election. Benioff talks about his...
ListenBest of City Insider: Police Chief Bill Scott from 2018-12-27T12:00
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight talks to SFPD Chief Bill Scott about the epidemic of car break-ins and what residents and the police can do to prevent these crimes. Scott also talk...
ListenThe San Francisco Movie Special from 2018-12-24T08:05
Chronicle columnist Heather Knight talks to Bay Area movers and shakers about their favorite San Francisco films. "Vertigo" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" get a lot of votes as Mayor London Breed, Marc Benio...
ListenBest of City Insider: Candidate London Breed from 2018-12-18T12:00
When London Breed sat down with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight in April, she was the president of the Board of Supervisors and the former acting mayor — after her colleagues had b...
ListenDivvying up San Francisco's unexpected windfall from 2018-12-12T22:45:54
Late last month, San Francisco woke up to find itself $415 richer. The question now is: Where is all that money going to go? Competing plans have already emerged, and some groups, including educati...
ListenState Senator Scott Wiener from 2018-12-11T12:00
The San Francisco Democrat talks with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight about his proposal to give all homeless people in California a right to shelter, his second try at making car ...
ListenElection 2018: Analysis from The Chronicle's political team from 2018-11-07T09:56:50
An all-star cast of Chronicle political experts breaks down the biggest races and issues on election night 2018. San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofoli hosts this episode with...
ListenSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff on homelessness from 2018-11-02T11:00
Marc Benioff has been making headlines for his support of Prop. C to tax big businesses to raise money for homeless services — and for his scolding of other San Francisco CEOs for not doing the sam...
ListenSan Francisco Fire Chief hangs up her helmet from 2018-10-22T22:28:49
San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White is the first woman to ever hold the job and the longest serving big city fire chief in the country. After nearly 15 years on the job, she has a big annou...
ListenSF District Ten Candidate Shamann Walton from 2018-10-18T04:43:32
San Francisco District Ten Candidate Shamann Walton, a former school board president, has a lot of support from San Francisco and California political veterans. He also has a long history of work i...
ListenSF District Ten Candidate Tony Kelly from 2018-10-18T04:34:17
San Francisco District Ten Candidate Tony Kelly, the current president of the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association, is a longtime neighborhood activist who has run for the seat twice before. H...
ListenSF District Ten Candidate Theo Ellington from 2018-10-18T04:27:03
San Francisco District Ten Candidate Theo Ellington, the current board president for the Bayview opera house, grew up in the Bayview and said his top three priorities would be "affordable housing, ...
ListenSF District Six Candidate Christine Johnson from 2018-10-17T00:08:02
San Francisco District Six Candidate Christine Johnson is a former planning commissioner with an engineering degree. A self-described a policy wonk, she is the only one in the race with experience ...
ListenSF District Six Candidate Sonja Trauss from 2018-10-16T23:58:07
San Francisco District Six Candidate Sonja Trauss is a prominent housing activist who started the YIMBY movement and is running to bring a pro-housing voice to the Board of Supervisors. Trauss is o...
ListenSF District Six Candidate Matt Haney from 2018-10-16T21:19:09
Matt Haney is a school board member and a progressive candidate running for a district long held by supervisors of similar political stripes. He's running to create more shelter beds in District Si...
ListenSF District Four candidate Trevor McNeil from 2018-10-11T00:32
San Francisco District Four candidate Trevor McNeil, a public school teacher, is the only candidate in the District Four race who would support a Navigation Center in the district. He's picked up a...
ListenSF District Four candidate Gordon Mar from 2018-10-11T00:31:49
San Francisco District Four candidate Gordon Mar is a longtime labor activist in the city, who has a broad coalition of support from the building and labor and trade groups. But can this progressiv...
ListenSF District Four candidate Jessica Ho from 2018-10-10T15:00
Since she swept into the political scene earlier this year as a legislative aide for outgoing Supervisor Katy Tang, SF District Four Candidate Jessica Ho has picked up several big-name endorsements...
ListenSF District Two Candidate Schuyler Hudak from 2018-10-10T14:00
A political newcomer, San Francisco District Two Candidate Schuyler Hudak has centered her campaign around increasing services for the mentally ill on the city's streets. But she faces stiff opposi...
ListenSF District Two Candidate Catherine Stefani from 2018-10-10T13:30
The SF Chronicle sits down with District Two Candidate Catherine Stefani -- Stefani has been District Two's incumbent since her appointment by former Mayor Mark Farrell. Stefani wants to make San F...
ListenSF District Two Candidate Nick Josefowitz from 2018-10-10T13:00
San Francisco District Two Candidate Nick Josefowitz, a BART director, has pledged to reform City Hall by tackling the city's homelessness and affordability crises. To win the District Two seat, Jo...
ListenThe front lines of San Francisco's mental health crisis from 2018-10-05T05:24:30
Paul Linde, a doctor who worked in the psychiatric emergency room of San Francisco General Hospital for 24 years. He talks about why the city's mental health system is so broken and what it would t...
ListenDebunking climate change deniers from 2018-09-11T00:00
When Heather Knight tweeted about the link between California's dreadful wildfire season and climate change, the deniers responded. She reads their tweets to Kevin Drew of the San Francisco Departm...
ListenFarewell to Chief of Staff Jason Elliott from 2018-08-31T21:15:39
Farewell to a four-time chief of staff: Jason Elliott, who served Mayors Ed Lee, London Breed, Mark Farrell and London Breed again, has just departed Room 200 to join Gavin Newsom’s campaign for go...
ListenSF District Eight Supervisor Rafael Mandelman from 2018-08-20T17:33:11
One of San Francisco's newest supervisors sits down with Chronicle columnist Heather Knight and City Hall reporter Trisha Thadani to talk about what it will take to tackle the crisis of untreated m...
ListenEmerge founder Andrea Dew Steele from 2018-08-20T17:17:28
Back in 2002, Andrea Dew Steele helped her friend, Kamala Harris, start a campaign for San Francisco District Attorney. Sixteen years later, Harris is a U.S. Senator with her eye on the White House...
ListenThe story behind San Francisco's "Invisible Men" from 2018-07-30T19:00
People walking to City Hall will be surprised to see 40 identical sculptures, each weighing more than 300 pounds, standing like soldiers just out front. Artist Zak Ove, an Englishman who’s the firs...
ListenSan Francisco's homeless problem, explained from 2018-06-23T16:00
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight talks with Jeff Kositsky, director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, about why the city’s homeless problem doesn’t seem to g...
ListenCatching up with SF Mayor-elect London Breed from 2018-06-22T19:23:50
Now that she's clinched the race for the city's top job, San Francisco Mayor-elect London Breed is getting ready to bear down on the city's most pressing problems. After her July 11 inauguration, B...
ListenSan Francisco has a new mayor: London Breed from 2018-06-13T21:09:56
The S.F. mayor's race has finally come to an end, and London Breed will be the first African American woman to be elected to the city's highest office. Former state Sen. Mark Leno conceded defeat a...
Listen2018 California Primary Election recap from 2018-06-06T10:09:35
In a special election night podcast, the San Francisco Chronicle politics team breaks down the 2018 California primary. Listen in as John Diaz, Heather Knight, Joe Garofoli, Dominic Fracassa and Jo...
ListenUnderstanding SF's opioid epidemic with Dr. Phillip Coffin from 2018-05-20T07:30
San Franciscans have a lot of questions about the blatant, open-air injection drug use occurring on our sidewalks. Dr. Phillip Coffin, director of substance use research for the San Francisco Depar...
ListenCatching up with SF Mayor Mark Farrell from 2018-05-17T07:30
Mayor Mark Farrell has just a few weeks left in office, but says he’s determined to keep the “pedal to the metal” in accomplishing real change for San Francisco before his time in Room 200 is up. I...
ListenBeach Blanket Babylon in the age of President Trump from 2018-04-19T17:46
We talk with with Jo Schuman Silver, writer and producer of Beach Blanket Babylon, the silly, only-in-San Francisco stage production that’s celebrating its 45th anniversary. While President Donald ...
ListenLondon Breed on the SF mayor's race from 2018-04-05T05:17:06
In The Chronicle's final installment of our mayoral profiles, we talk with London Breed, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She's gone from growing up as a poor kid in the city's ...
ListenSan Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott from 2018-04-02T22:21:19
There were more than 31,000 reports of car break-ins in San Francisco in 2017, but police were only able to make arrests in 1.7 percent of cases. Police Chief Bill Scott explains to columnist Heath...
ListenSan Francisco mayoral candidate Angela Alioto from 2018-03-29T05:21:18
Angela Alioto is banking on her years of experience in San Francisco politics to separate her from the pack of mayoral hopefuls in the June 5 election. Her campaign has focused on her pledges to br...
ListenSF mayoral candidate interview with Supervisor Jane Kim from 2018-03-21T07:11:32
San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim is known for big, bold ideas, only a fraction of which become reality at City Hall. But she’s centering her mayoral campaign on a very practical policy initiative:...
ListenSF mayoral candidate interview with Mark Leno from 2018-03-15T13:44:27
Progressive mayoral candidate Mark Leno has centered his campaign on a promise to "shake up City Hall." But can a veteran lawmaker like Leno, who served 14 years in the state Assembly and Senate as...
ListenSF mayoral candidate interview with Mark Leno from 2018-03-15T13:44:27
Progressive mayoral candidate Mark Leno has centered his campaign on a promise to "shake up City Hall." But can a veteran lawmaker like Leno, who served 14 years in the state Assembly and Senate as...
ListenSF mayoral candidate interview with Mark Leno from 2018-03-15T13:44:27
Progressive mayoral candidate Mark Leno has centered his campaign on a promise to "shake up City Hall." But can a veteran lawmaker like Leno, who served 14 years in the state Assembly and Senate as...
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