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San Francisco City Insider
From the back rooms of City Hall to the crowded and chaotic streets of downtown, the San Francisco City Insider podcast is there, providing insight into the biggest news stories and most pre...
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20 of 132 episodesBART's Coming Off the Rails
Bevan Dufty, a member of the BART board of directors, discusses how the already struggling transit agency has seen a 94 percent plunge in ri...
How to Combat Shutdown Loneliness
Madeline Dangerfield-Cha, the co-founder of Mon Ami, a service that matches volunteers with isolated seniors, talks to Heather Knight about...
Glide in the Time of COVID-19
Karen Hanrahan, CEO and president of Glide, the famous Tenderloin church and social service provider, tells Heather Knight about the livestr...
Homeless and Desperate
Kristie Fairchild, executive director of North Beach Citizens, talks about how more homeless people are seeking help since food and spare ch...
San Francisco After COVID-19
Cities have long weathered public health crises and emerged stronger because of them. Benjamin Grant, urban design policy director at SPUR,...
Is the Coronavirus Surge Still Coming?
Have we flattened the curve? Dr. Allison Bond, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, gives Heather Knight an inside view of San Francisco ho...
Inside San Francisco's Emergency Command Center
Ivy Lee, a legislative aide, is among the hundreds of City Hall staff members who've been spending long days inside Moscone Center to prepar...
Coronavirus: A Disaster for Small Businesses
The shutdown to stem the coronavirus outbreak has already destroyed some small businesses, including the one owned by Sharky Laguana, presid...
Treating Victims of S.F.’s Traffic Violence
Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital, regularly treats pedestrians and bicyclists mowed down by cars. He s...
“This Is Going to Be Catastrophic”
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...
Fifth & Mission: A Top S.F. Doctor on the Coronavirus
Dr. Andre Campbell, a longtime trauma surgeon and ICU doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, tells Heather Knight on the Chronicle’s flag...
The Bart Board President's Big Dreams
Lateefah Simon, a legally blind single mom who commuted on BART for years before she was elected president of its board of directors in Dece...
Race, Power and Inequity in San Francisco
Shakirah Simley, director of the new Office of Racial Equity, talks with Dominic Fracassa about rooting out and repairing the racial harms c...
There's a New Sheriff in Town
Paul Miyamoto was sworn in at a pivotal moment for criminal justice reform in San Francisco. He tells Dominic Fracassa about the future of t...
Vilaska Nguyen: Comedian, Public Defender and S.F. Supervisor Candidate
In a crossover episode with Total SF, Nguyen joins hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight to announce his candidacy for District 7 supervis...
Young, Homeless and Alone on the Streets
Sherilyn Adams, director of Larkin Street Youth Services, talks about youth homelessness and debunks myths about the crisis in San Francisco...
Corruption in the Public Works Department
Supervisor Matt Haney has long been frustrated by the filthy streets and lack of trash cans and public restrooms in his district. He was out...
Fifth & Mission Live: Primaries 2020
In this episode of the Chronicle's flagship news podcast, Fifth & Mission, Editor in Chief Audrey Cooper, politics writer Joe Garofoli and c...
The Rare San Francisco Trump Supporter
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...