No San Francisco public school student has seen the inside of a classroom in nearly a year, though six elementary schools are ready to reopen -- eventually. Chronicle reporter Jill Tucker explains the latest on the move to reopen the city's schools and how Zoom school has spelled disaster for some kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reporter Rachel Swan talks about her investigation into the police shooting of a mentally ill man in Danville. An officer killed Laudemer Arboleda, who was unarmed, after stepping in front of his car during a low-speed chase. Now, amid calls for police accountability in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the Contra Costa County district attorney must decide whether to charge the officer with homicide. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Just as in 1969, when Gov. Ronald Reagan sent in the National Guard, activists want to preserve the Berkeley park while UC wants to build housing. Times — and the stakes — have changed, but reporter Sarah Ravani says the fight is a familiar one. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Related episode: People's Park at 50 — pod.fo/e/b6f8e Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 2021 Lunar New Year marks a full year of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on San Francisco’s Chinatown. Well before the Bay Area shut down, America’s oldest Chinatown experienced reduced business and xenophobia. With thousands living in Single Room Occupancy hotels and legacy businesses on the brink of closure, the neighborhood is fighting to survive. This is an episode of The Chronicle's food and culture podcast, Extra Spicy. Related: Chinatown's Endangered Banquet Halls: pod.fo/e/b68e0 Le...
Large banquets have long been crucial to San Francisco's Chinese community, and the halls that host them have been the backbone of Chinatown. They were already fading away, but the coronavirus pandemic might be the final blow. Journalist Melissa Hung talks about their decline and efforts to save them. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Related episode: How Will Chinatown Survive? pod.fo/e/28a75 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The South Africa mutation of the virus has been identified in two patients, in Alameda and Santa Clara counties. As reporter Erin Allday explains, this could present a challenge: Current vaccines aren't as effective in fighting this variant. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Chronicle's Washington correspondent Tal Kopan has the latest from the impeachment of Donald Trump. While a majority of senators rejected Trump's argument that a trial is unconstitutional, Democrats may not have enough votes to convict. Kopan weighs in on the atmosphere in Congress, the politics of the moment and the impact on VP Kamala Harris. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A deal between the San Francisco school district and labor unions only sets the conditions needed to return. Will it happen before summer? And what might the school day look like? Reporter Jill Tucker says parents are watching, including some who have shifted kids to private school — or Marin County. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feeling exhausted, confused and just plain over it? You're not alone. Reporter Ryan Kost looks at the mix of good and bad news on the coronavirus front and why it's causing so much uncertainty. Hint: We'd feel a lot better if we had an end date | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He's spent 35 years giving readers the inside view of San Francisco, Bay Area and California politics. Now, in this excerpt from the It's All Political podcast, Phil Matier talks to Joe Garofoli about covering Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom from the beginning. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Listen to the full episode here: pod.fo/e/b562a Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Once you get vaccinated against COVID-19, can you change your behavior? See your family? Get rid of masks and distancing? Yes and no. Reporter Erin Allday has the latest advice from medical experts, plus an update coronavirus variants. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
California's vaccine roll-out is improving, with two new mass vaccination sites on the way. Still, Gov. Gavin Newsom's poll numbers have dropped, and a recall effort is humming along. Sacramento reporters Alexei Koseff and Dustin Gardiner talk to Heather Knight about the latest. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chronicle Exclusive: City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing the San Francisco Unified School district and Board of Education. @HKnightSF and @demianbulwa talk about the city's attempt to force classroom doors open after 11 months of distance learning. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Education reporter Jill Tucker talks about the San Francisco school board's proposal to drop selective admissions at the elite public school, which has long been a feeder to the UC system. The move raises questions about the value and legality of an academically prestigious public school, and has upset some Asian Americans, who make up a disproportionate percentage of the enrollment at Lowell. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris? ...
Paul Ash, longtime executive director of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, just retired, and Tanis Crosby has signed on to replace him. She explains to host Heather Knight why she wanted the demanding job and her plans for feeding swelling lines of hungry people. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reporters Alexei Koseff and Jill Tucker talk to Demian Bulwa about the extended eviction moratorium, Blue Shield taking over vaccine distribution, a school reopening plan stalling and Gov. Gavin Newsom feeling political heat over the way he's handling coronavirus. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is renaming 44 schools, including Lincoln High and Feinstein Elementary, a stand against the racist legacies of slaveholders and oppressors, or an unnecessary and expensive distraction from the crisis caused by coronavirus? Education reporter Jill Tucker has the latest on the controversy. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the end of the Gold Rush to the coronavirus pandemic, people have predicted San Francisco's demise whenever times have gotten hard. Total SF host Peter Hartlaub says the city has always rebounded from disaster, and will do it again this time. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Keith Cormican has a very unusual job: he finds and retrieves dead bodies in lakes and rivers across the country. Cormican has been especially successful in Lake Tahoe, where in just under 2 months in 2017, he found six missing bodies — some of which had been lost for more than 10 years. Chronicle lifestyle and outdoors editor Gregory Thomas tells the story of how Cormican became an expert at finding dead bodies and how he pulled off the deepest body recovery on record in North America. | Unlimi...
As scientists race to understand newly discovered mutations of the coronavirus, Erin Allday explains how they might change the trajectory of the pandemic. Plus: Aidin Vaziri shares some practical tips we can all take to protect ourselves. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shortly after she took office, San Francisco Mayor London Breed pledged to add 1,000 shelter beds to help with the city’s homelessness crisis. But after the coronavirus pandemic emptied out shelters, the city has been forced to recast its goals around homelessness. Chronicle City Hall reporter Trisha Thadani talks about the state of the city’s shelter system. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn mor...
The center of the resistance reacts to Inauguration Day: Residents of San Francisco and Oakland describe an unusual mix of relief and optimism after watching President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris get sworn in. They share their hopes for unity and major policy changes now that former President Donald Trump is out of office. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. V...
How quickly can Joe Biden change the course of the coronavirus pandemic? Dr. George Rutherford, an infectious disease doctor at UCSF, is optimistic about the new Biden-Harris administration and believes we'll see a vastly improved response very quickly. That will include more vaccine doses being delivered in a far more organized fashion. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choice...
Just as California tries to turn the corner on the coronavirus pandemic, a new variant is spreading, and it might be even more contagious. Meanwhile, thousands of vaccine doses are shelved after several people who were inoculated at a site in San Diego report serious allergic reactions. Reporters Catherine Ho and Erin Allday have details. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choic...
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson tweeted a thread that went viral calling for his fellow tech leaders to #committothebay. He says he's tired of them packing up for Austin or Miami and "dunking" on San Francisco on the way out. He's not moving his company headquarters or his family out of the city, and he explains why it's important for others in the tech industry to stay put too. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicle...
California has suspended 1.4 million unemployment accounts in its quest to crack down on fraud -- but hundreds of thousands of legitimately unemployed people got caught in the freeze. Business reporter Carolyn Said talks with Demian Bulwa about the issue, and what California is doing to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The coronavirus is surging. A more contagious variant is taking hold. People are struggling. But California has fallen behind almost every other state when it comes to getting vaccines into people’s arms. What is behind the chaos and slow pace? Who is to blame? What needs to change? Chronicle reporters Erin Allday and Trisha Thadani have the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No president had ever been impeached twice. That changed Wednesday when the House passed a resolution charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” In this joint episode of Fifth & Mission & It's All Political, Heather Knight and Joe Garofoli talk about what's next. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Restaurant critic Soleil Ho has a brand new list of the region's best eats, which she'll update quarterly to reflect the quickly changing restaurant scene during the pandemic. Plus: Ho gives us a sneak peak at the new season of her food and culture podcast, Extra Spicy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Democrats are moving swiftly to try to remove President Trump from office, or at least make him ineligible to run again in 2024. Introducing an article of impeachment, they accuse Trump of “inciting violence against the government” for his role in the Capitol attack. The clock is ticking, and the pressure is on Republicans, say Washington correspondent Tal Kopan and Joe Garofoli in this joint episode of Fifth & Mission & It's All Political. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/p...
