San Francisco City Insider

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

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