San Francisco Public Library reference librarian Janet Tom has just won a national award for, yes, being loved. She tells us about her job and why the city's libraries are so well-liked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thomas Wolf was an employed, married father of two when he got hooked on painkillers after surgery. He fell into homelessness and heroin addiction in the Tenderloin before pulling himself out. He talks about how City Hall can do better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Columnist Heather Knight and reporters Dominic Fracassa and Trisha Thadani discuss the major stories of 2019 and preview what's to come in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shannon Eizenga, executive director of the Gubbio Project, discusses why it's so hard for homeless people to sleep and how offering them church pews for rest makes a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Porter, vice president of Recology, discusses changes the garbage collection agency is making to help clean up San Francisco's notoriously dirty streets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The supervisor-elect who beat London Breed ally Vallie Brown in November talks to reporter Trisha Thadani about his plans to shake up the status quo when he joins the Board of Supervisors in December. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paul Ash, executive director of the San Francisco Food Bank, talks about how food pantries are cropping up at local colleges because students are broke after paying tuition, and how he scrapes together 48 million pounds of food each year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A crossover The Big Event and S.F. City Insider episode. Hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight interview Byron Cobb, the reigning Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest champion and eight-time winner. Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeffrey Tumlin, who will start one of the city's hardest jobs on Dec. 16, 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Esta Soler, founder of Futures Without Violence, talks with Heather Knight about the 25th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act and her plan for a new Courage Museum in the Presidio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After months of political bickering, San Francisco's leaders have united behind an ambitious, expensive plan to fix the city's broken mental health care system. Chronicle City Hall reporters Trisha Thadani and Dom Fracassa break down what's happening and what's yet to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bicycle Coalition executive director Brian Wiedenmeier discusses the new car-free Market Street plan, his dream of a car-free Golden Gate Park, and why he's always polite while bicycling around the city Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With the ballots still being counted, Chronicle columnist Heather Knight and City Hall reporter Dominic Fracassa talk about the district attorney's race, the neck-and-neck competition for district 5 on the Board of Supervisors and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Clair Farley, director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives, talks about her own transition and the importance of pushing progressive LGBTQ policies while the White House spreads transphobia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The late Mayor George Moscone’s son recalls the horrible day his father was assassinated alongside Supervisor Harvey Milk. Moscone, chief producer for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, also discusses the importance of promoting artists in a city where they can't afford to live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ella Yitzhaki, a senior at Lowell High, has become an advocate for amending the California constitution to allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they'll be 18 by the general election. She talks about the reasons for the change and what it's like being a kid in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ten months. Nearly 30 visits to the psychiatric ER. And a suicide. Summer’s story reveals the weaknesses in San Francisco’s mental illness and addiction treatment system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
(Originally published March 4, 2019.) With the election nine months away, nearly $200,000 has already been poured into the race for the District Five seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Vallie Brown, who was appointed by Mayor London Breed following Breed’s ascension to Room 200, faces stiff competition for her reelection. Tenant Attorney Dean Preston, who narrowly lost to Breed in 2016, is running as a Democratic Socialist. That could be a problem for Brown, who’s associated with th...
Manny Yekutiel looks back on the first year of Manny's, discusses the importance of civic engagement and talks about why he'd never let Donald Trump — or any other Republican — speak there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're sharing this episode of The Chronicle's Fifth & Mission podcast, in which SF City Insider host Heather Knight joins Kevin Fagan and Demian Bulwa to talk about the infamous boulders on Clinton Park alley, which have become a symbol for San Francisco's inability to provide basic services for its homeless population or to enforce laws when street behavior turns dark and violent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Warriors president Rick Welts joins the San Francisco Chronicle's #TotalSF team Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight for a The Big Event/SF City Insider podcast crossover. Welts makes the case to add the Chase Center to the new 49 Mile Scenic Route being created by Knight and Hartlaub, and talks about living in San Francisco, his friendship with NBA legend Bill Russell and submits to Knight's City Insider lightning round.. Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Supervisor Catherine Stefani made national news when her resolution calling the National Rifle Association "a domestic terrorist organization" passed the Board of Supervisors unanimously. She talks about her reasons and the fallout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The most progressive candidate in the race for San Francisco district attorney is a public defender who's been visiting his father in prison since he was a baby. He discusses the major changes he'd like to see in our broken criminal justice system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Doniece Sandoval, the founder of Lava Mae, which brings mobile showers and toilets to the streets, discusses City Hall's sluggishness, how parents can explain street misery to their kids, and what average San Franciscans can do to help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The front-runner in the race discusses what she'd do about San Francisco's biggest problems, including untreated mental illness on our streets, drug dealing and car break-ins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the second of four interviews with the candidates for San Francisco district attorney, Nancy Tung, the most conservative of the candidates — by San Francisco standards, of course — talks about prosecutors needing to get tougher on crime. 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. Plus: What's in store for BART, and Li’s favorite and least favorite stations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the first of four interviews with the candidates for San Francisco district attorney, Leif Dautch talks about how he'd remake the troubled office and his plans for a 150-bed mental health center. Plus: He plays his fiddle, a first for SF City Insider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The harrowing viral video of an attack on a woman trying to enter her waterfront condo has reignited debate over how San Francisco ought to balance helping those in crisis with ensuring public safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeanine Nicholson talks about her cancer battle, what San Francisco should do about its homeless epidemic and whether we’re really prepared for a massive earthquake. Plus: Her favorite burrito spot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
