San Francisco City Insider
By San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight
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.
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San Francisco City Insider Is Moving
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 … -
BART'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 ridership during the coronavirus pandemic and how it will ever recover. -
How to Combat Shutdown Loneliness
Madeline Dangerfield-Cha, the co-founder of Mon Ami, a service that matches volunteers with isolated seniors, talks about the epidemic of loneliness during our new coronavirus reality and gives tips on how to build connections. -
Glide in the Time of COVID-19
Karen Hanrahan, CEO and president of Glide, the famous Tenderloin church and social service provider, talks about the livestream church services and what coronavirus is teaching us about poverty. -
Homeless and Desperate
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. -
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, talks about the ways San Francisco will be permanently changed by coronavirus. -
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 hospitals — which, so far, seem like a calm before a storm. -
Inside San Francisco's Emergency Command Center
Ivy Lee, a legislative aide who's among hundreds of city staff spending long days inside Moscone Center to prepare for the expected surge in coronavirus cases, discusses San Francisco's readiness with Heather Knight. -
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, president of San Francisco's Small Business Commission, who talks to Heather Knight. -
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 speaks with host Heather Knight about the uptick in street violence and what can be done to reduce it.
