New Supervisor Matt Haney has barely begun his new job representing District 6, but he’s already deluged with meeting requests, emails and tweets from residents fed up with the filth, needles and feces on their sidewalks. He’s fed up with it too and said the Tenderloin and South of Market can no longer be the city’s dumping ground and residents can no longer be ignored. He even says there’s been a city conspiracy to allow these issues to fester in District Six, but we’ll let him explain. Learn m...
Jan 11, 2019•34 min
For the first time in years, progressives have a majority on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, but their inability to unify around a single candidate for board president shows they have a long way to go to exert their power. Trisha Thadani reports on the victory of gentlemanly Norman Yee over firebrand Hillary Ronen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 11, 2019•9 min
Jane Kim was a San Francisco Supervisor who was running for mayor when she talked to Chronicle columnist Heather Knight for this episode, which ran on March 21, 2018. Kim, who lost in her mayoral bid and was termed out from her seat on the Board of Supervisors, is known for big, bold ideas, only a fraction of which became reality at City Hall. But she centered her mayoral campaign on a very practical policy initiative: cleaning the city’s notoriously dirty streets. Learn more about your ad choic...
Jan 04, 2019•17 min
The 61st floor of the Salesforce Tower was the setting for San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight's interview with CEO Marc Benioff just before the 2018 election. Benioff talks about his support for Prop. C, the initiative to tax big businesses — like Salesforce — to raise money for homeless services, and why he scolded other San Francisco CEOs for not doing the same. From Nov. 2, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 31, 2018•20 min
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight talks to SFPD Chief Bill Scott about the epidemic of car break-ins and what residents and the police can do to prevent these crimes. Scott also talks about homelessness and injection drug use on the city’s streets. From April 2, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 27, 2018•26 min
Chronicle columnist Heather Knight talks to Bay Area movers and shakers about their favorite San Francisco films. "Vertigo" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" get a lot of votes as Mayor London Breed, Marc Benioff, State Senator Scott Wiener and others weigh in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 24, 2018•17 min
When London Breed sat down with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight in April, she was the president of the Board of Supervisors and the former acting mayor — after her colleagues had booted her from office. She was also running for mayor, a race she would win in June. In the April 4, 2018, episode of San Francisco City Insider, then-candidate Breed talks about her childhood in the Western Addition, her plans for San Francisco, and the fact that she worries about her own housing situ...
Dec 18, 2018•34 min
Late last month, San Francisco woke up to find itself $415 richer. The question now is: Where is all that money going to go? Competing plans have already emerged, and some groups, including education advocates, are already making the case for why they should get a piece of the pie. City Hall reporter Trisha Thadani is here to help us make sense of it all. Hosted by Dominic Fracassa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 12, 2018•23 min
The San Francisco Democrat talks with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight about his proposal to give all homeless people in California a right to shelter, his second try at making car break-ins easier to prosecute, and one surprising benefit of being 6-foot-7. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 11, 2018•29 min
An all-star cast of Chronicle political experts breaks down the biggest races and issues on election night 2018. San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofoli hosts this episode with editor in chief Audrey Cooper, editorial page editor John Diaz, political writer John Wildermuth, Sacramento bureau chief Melody Gutierrez and columnist Heather Knight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 07, 2018•44 min
Marc Benioff has been making headlines for his support of Prop. C to tax big businesses to raise money for homeless services — and for his scolding of other San Francisco CEOs for not doing the same. Heather Knight talked to him on the 61st story of the new Salesforce Tower, where you’re looking down on the top of the TransAmerica Pyramid and pretty much everything else in the Bay Area. He talked about why he backs Prop. C, why he’s taking other billionaires to task so publicly and how his grand...
Nov 02, 2018•20 min
San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White is the first woman to ever hold the job and the longest serving big city fire chief in the country. After nearly 15 years on the job, she has a big announcement: she's ready to hang up her helmet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 22, 2018•14 min
San Francisco District Ten Candidate Shamann Walton, a former school board president, has a lot of support from San Francisco and California political veterans. He also has a long history of work in the neighborhood. But some political observers have questioned how voters will respond to his track record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 18, 2018•21 min
San Francisco District Ten Candidate Tony Kelly, the current president of the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association, is a longtime neighborhood activist who has run for the seat twice before. He considers himself a democratic socialist -- but the question is how voters will respond to that label. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 18, 2018•31 min
San Francisco District Ten Candidate Theo Ellington, the current board president for the Bayview opera house, grew up in the Bayview and said his top three priorities would be "affordable housing, affordable housing and affordable housing." Ellington is the youngest candidate in this race, and the question some voters have about Theo is if he has enough experience to run a district. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 18, 2018•24 min
San Francisco District Six Candidate Christine Johnson is a former planning commissioner with an engineering degree. A self-described a policy wonk, she is the only one in the race with experience working in a city department. But, so far, her campaign has failed to get as much momentum as her competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 17, 2018•22 min
San Francisco District Six Candidate Sonja Trauss is a prominent housing activist who started the YIMBY movement and is running to bring a pro-housing voice to the Board of Supervisors. Trauss is often described as tenacious, outspoken and blunt. The question with her is how those qualities will translate into the board's chambers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2018•23 min
Matt Haney is a school board member and a progressive candidate running for a district long held by supervisors of similar political stripes. He's running to create more shelter beds in District Six and to get the streets cleaned up. But he's up against two pro-housing moderates running a one-two ranked-choice voting strategy, and both have been endorsed by the mayor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2018•23 min
San Francisco District Four candidate Trevor McNeil, a public school teacher, is the only candidate in the District Four race who would support a Navigation Center in the district. He's picked up a smattering of endorsements, but whether he can get enough traction before November remains an open question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 11, 2018•26 min
San Francisco District Four candidate Gordon Mar is a longtime labor activist in the city, who has a broad coalition of support from the building and labor and trade groups. But can this progressive candidate who sees housing opportunities on the westside win over a district long held by moderates? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 11, 2018•17 min
Since she swept into the political scene earlier this year as a legislative aide for outgoing Supervisor Katy Tang, SF District Four Candidate Jessica Ho has picked up several big-name endorsements, from Mayor London Breed to state Sen. Scott Weiner. But her race to represent District Four has raised eyebrows. Can she win in a sector of the city where name recognition really counts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2018•18 min
A political newcomer, San Francisco District Two Candidate Schuyler Hudak has centered her campaign around increasing services for the mentally ill on the city's streets. But she faces stiff opposition. Can her grassroots campaign stand up against her competitors? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2018•25 min
The SF Chronicle sits down with District Two Candidate Catherine Stefani -- Stefani has been District Two's incumbent since her appointment by former Mayor Mark Farrell. Stefani wants to make San Francisco safer and more accommodating for families. She recounts what she's accomplished so far in office, and what she still wants to achieve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2018•23 min
San Francisco District Two Candidate Nick Josefowitz, a BART director, has pledged to reform City Hall by tackling the city's homelessness and affordability crises. To win the District Two seat, Josefowitz has signaled a willingness to splash some serious money around: He's spent more than half a million dollars on the campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2018•23 min
Paul Linde, a doctor who worked in the psychiatric emergency room of San Francisco General Hospital for 24 years. He talks about why the city's mental health system is so broken and what it would take to fix it - namely, far more mental health treatment beds so there's somewhere for mentally ill homeless people to go besides the E.R. or our sidewalks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 05, 2018•24 min
When Heather Knight tweeted about the link between California's dreadful wildfire season and climate change, the deniers responded. She reads their tweets to Kevin Drew of the San Francisco Department of the Environment and Jared Blumenfeld, formerly of the Environmental Protection Agency, to get their response — and the facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 11, 2018•30 min
Farewell to a four-time chief of staff: Jason Elliott, who served Mayors Ed Lee, London Breed, Mark Farrell and London Breed again, has just departed Room 200 to join Gavin Newsom’s campaign for governor. Elliott opens up about his last day working with Lee and that terrible December night his boss died. He talks about the biggest piece of city government that’s broken, and what he always makes sure to squeeze into his day with his wife, the city’s cannabis chief. (No, it's not pot.) Learn more ...
Aug 31, 2018•21 min
One of San Francisco's newest supervisors sits down with Chronicle columnist Heather Knight and City Hall reporter Trisha Thadani to talk about what it will take to tackle the crisis of untreated mental illness on the city's streets, his thoughts on the proposed ban on office cafeterias and where he goes for the city's best burrito. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 20, 2018•29 min
Back in 2002, Andrea Dew Steele helped her friend, Kamala Harris, start a campaign for San Francisco District Attorney. Sixteen years later, Harris is a U.S. Senator with her eye on the White House and Steele’s Emerge, a training ground for women in politics, is active in 24 states. We’re talking about why more women are running for office during the Trump era, her predictions for the mid-term elections and what she’d like to see happen to Donald Trump after 2020. Learn more about your ad choice...
Aug 20, 2018•22 min
People walking to City Hall will be surprised to see 40 identical sculptures, each weighing more than 300 pounds, standing like soldiers just out front. Artist Zak Ove, an Englishman who’s the first black person to have art displayed in the plaza, explains the work’s meaning, how it’s a counterpoint to the controversial Pioneer Monument and how it relates to San Francisco’s heartbreaking homeless problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 30, 2018•13 min
