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San Francisco City Insider

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San Francisco's homeless problem, explained

San Francisco's homeless problem, explained

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight talks with Jeff Kositsky, director of the Department of Homelessness an... Read more

23 Jun 2018

36mins

Ranked #2

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Does City Hall Have the Fix for District Six?

Does City Hall Have the Fix for District Six?

New Supervisor Matt Haney has barely begun his new job representing District 6, but he’s already deluged with meeting re... Read more

11 Jan 2019

34mins

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SF District Four candidate Trevor McNeil

SF District Four candidate Trevor McNeil

San Francisco District Four candidate Trevor McNeil, a public school teacher, is the only candidate in the District Four... Read more

11 Oct 2018

25mins

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Inside San Francisco’s Mental Health Crisis

Inside San Francisco’s Mental Health Crisis

Rachel Rodriguez, a social worker in San Francisco General Hospital’s psychiatric emergency room, is incensed at the way... Read more

12 Mar 2019

28mins

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“This Is Going to Be Catastrophic”

“This Is Going to Be Catastrophic”

San Franciscan Amanda Kahn Fried is on sabbatical in Italy, a coronavirus hot spot where events seem to be a few weeks a... Read more

12 Mar 2020

20mins

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DA Tuesday: Chesa Boudin

DA Tuesday: Chesa Boudin

The most progressive candidate in the race for San Francisco district attorney is a public defender who's been visiting ... Read more

17 Sep 2019

33mins

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Spending San Francisco's Big Bucks

Spending San Francisco's Big Bucks

Treasurer Jose Cisneros talks about the city's whopping $12.3 billion budget and why he's directing more of it to kinder... Read more

7 Jan 2020

40mins

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Meet Your New Muni Director

Meet Your New Muni Director

Jeffrey Tumlin, who will start one of the city's hardest jobs on Dec. 16, plans to chart a new path for San Francisco th... Read more

23 Nov 2019

39mins

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SF District Six Candidate Matt Haney

SF District Six Candidate Matt Haney

Matt Haney is a school board member and a progressive candidate running for a district long held by supervisors of simil... Read more

16 Oct 2018

22mins

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Finding the Tipping Point on Homelessness

Finding the Tipping Point on Homelessness

Daniel Lurie is the CEO and founder of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit in San Francisco. He tells Heather Knigh... Read more

31 May 2019

36mins

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Living on the Cheap in One of the World's Most Expensive Cities

Living on the Cheap in One of the World's Most Expensive Cities

As his name implies, Broke-Ass Stuart's whole shtick is living a big life with little cash. But that's become harder tha... Read more

6 Aug 2019

28mins

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Best of City Insider: Chesa Boudin

Best of City Insider: Chesa Boudin

He came on the podcast as one of four candidates. Now he's the district attorney-elect. Hear how he'll operate as San Fr... Read more

30 Dec 2019

33mins

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Dean Preston’s Big Plans

Dean Preston’s Big Plans

The supervisor-elect who beat London Breed ally Vallie Brown in November talks to reporter Trisha Thadani about his plan... Read more

2 Dec 2019

24mins

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Race, Power and Inequity in San Francisco

Race, Power and Inequity in San Francisco

Shakirah Simley, director of the new Office of Racial Equity, talks with Dominic Fracassa about rooting out and repairin... Read more

28 Feb 2020

30mins

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Making San Francisco's Streets Safer

Making San Francisco's Streets Safer

Bicycle Coalition executive director Brian Wiedenmeier discusses the new car-free Market Street plan, his dream of a car... Read more

8 Nov 2019

34mins

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Why San Francisco's Vision Zero Isn't Working

Why San Francisco's Vision Zero Isn't Working

Janice Li, a Bicycle Coalition staffer and BART director, talks about how San Francisco's program to eliminate traffic d... Read more

30 Aug 2019

44mins

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What Does London Lack That SF Has in Abundance? Misery on the Streets

What Does London Lack That SF Has in Abundance? Misery on the Streets

In talking to friends and colleagues who’ve done their own recent traveling, it’s clear to columnist Heather Knight that... Read more

11 Jul 2019

18mins

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Fifth & Mission: A Top S.F. Doctor on the Coronavirus

Fifth & Mission: A Top S.F. Doctor on the Coronavirus

Dr. Andre Campbell, a longtime trauma surgeon and ICU doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, tells Heather Knight on ... Read more

12 Mar 2020

27mins

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Treating Victims of S.F.’s Traffic Violence

Treating Victims of S.F.’s Traffic Violence

Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital, regularly treats pedestrians and bicyclists mowe... Read more

13 Mar 2020

30mins

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A Rocky Year at City Hall

A Rocky Year at City Hall

Columnist Heather Knight and reporters Dominic Fracassa and Trisha Thadani discuss the major stories of 2019 and preview... Read more

18 Dec 2019

36mins

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