San Francisco City Insider
News & Politics Podcasts
This podcast has merged into Fifth & Mission, the flagship newscast of the San Francisco Chronicle. Please subscribe to Fifth & Mission on your favorite podcast app.Old description: From the back rooms of City Hall to the chaotic streets of downtown, the San Francisco City Insider provides insight into the biggest news stories and most pressing issues facing one of the most interesting cities in the world. Chronicle columnist Heather Knight hosts, with regular appearances from The San Francisco Chronicle’s City Hall team – Trisha Thadani and Dominic Fracassa. They ask the tough questions of our city’s leaders to find out what’s going right and what needs to change.
Location:
United States
Genres:
News & Politics Podcasts
Description:
This podcast has merged into Fifth & Mission, the flagship newscast of the San Francisco Chronicle. Please subscribe to Fifth & Mission on your favorite podcast app.Old description: From the back rooms of City Hall to the chaotic streets of downtown, the San Francisco City Insider provides insight into the biggest news stories and most pressing issues facing one of the most interesting cities in the world. Chronicle columnist Heather Knight hosts, with regular appearances from The San Francisco Chronicle’s City Hall team – Trisha Thadani and Dominic Fracassa. They ask the tough questions of our city’s leaders to find out what’s going right and what needs to change.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/
Episodes
San Francisco City Insider Is Moving
4/11/2020
This podcast's timeline is ending, but the show will go on! Host Heather Knight is joining Audrey Cooper as co-host of the Chronicle's flagship podcast, Fifth & Mission, where she'll continue to interview newsmakers. And her patented Lightning Round is going with her. Subscribe to Fifth & Mission to keep listening. podfollow.com/fifth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:01:24
BART's Coming Off the Rails
4/10/2020
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 ever recover. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:41:19
How to Combat Shutdown Loneliness
4/8/2020
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 reality and gives tips on how to build connections. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:22:19
Glide in the Time of COVID-19
4/7/2020
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 about poverty. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:29:58
Homeless and Desperate
4/3/2020
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 to the coronavirus shutdown. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:20:01
San Francisco After COVID-19
4/1/2020
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 will be permanently changed by coronavirus. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:23:27
Is the Coronavirus Surge Still Coming?
3/30/2020
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. | The latest on coronavirus: sfchronicle.com/coronavirus | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:24:33
Inside San Francisco's Emergency Command Center
3/27/2020
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 to Heather Knight about San Francisco's readiness for a potential disaster. | Get unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:22:20
Coronavirus: A Disaster for Small Businesses
3/24/2020
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 talks to Heather Knight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:26:17
Treating Victims of S.F.’s Traffic Violence
3/13/2020
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 on the streets and what can be done to reduce it. | For more: Doctor Campbell on the Coronavirus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:29:57
“This Is Going to Be Catastrophic”
3/12/2020
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 lockdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:20:02
Fifth & Mission: A Top S.F. Doctor on the Coronavirus
3/12/2020
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 ahead and how the hospital is preparing. | Subscribe to Fifth & Mission Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:26:48
The Bart Board President's Big Dreams
3/3/2020
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 beleaguered transit system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:30:31
Race, Power and Inequity in San Francisco
2/28/2020
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:29:43
There's a New Sheriff in Town
2/27/2020
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 protect the city’s sanctuary policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:36:56
Vilaska Nguyen: Comedian, Public Defender and S.F. Supervisor Candidate
2/13/2020
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 why he lives in San Francisco, and to face the City Insider lightning round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:36:34
Young, Homeless and Alone on the Streets
2/11/2020
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 survey at sfchronicle.com/podcastsurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:24:24
Corruption in the Public Works Department
2/7/2020
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 corruption and is calling for major changes in the department. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:32:08
Fifth & Mission Live: Primaries 2020
2/6/2020
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, the upcoming primaries, and local politics at a Chronicle Talks event at Manny's in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:01:01:29
The Rare San Francisco Trump Supporter
2/4/2020
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 President Trump. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duration:00:23:41