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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 car No. 49, all decked out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 presenting on the City Insider feed. San Francisco Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru and Lefty O'Doul's owner Nick Bovis are charged with fraud after a months-long federal corruption probe. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 crisis. | Get unlimited Chronicle access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 Knight about the hardships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 jury duty a regular job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 deepened since then. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 over private vehicles and "subsidized car storage" — parking spaces. First published Nov. 23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. 30. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
