Fifth & Mission

On any given night, thousands of people sleep unsheltered in San Francisco. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman wants to change that with a proposal that would force the city to offer shelter to all unhoused people. He joins host Cecilia Lei to discuss the legislation, and Chronicle reporter Mallory Moench explains the potential costs and concerns of his plan. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For months, a rooster living in a Tenderloin yard has been terrorizing the neighborhood with its all-day crowing. Longtime resident Adriel Lively wanted to do something about it, but she only found dead ends. Chronicle reporter Ryan Kost joins host Cecilia Lei to discuss Lively's ordeal and why a story about an annoying bird -- in a neighborhood riddled with serious problems -- still matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On March 16, 2021, a white gunman killed 8 people in Atlanta spas — including 6 Asian women. One year later, host Cecilia Lei and 4 Asian women in the Bay Area reflect on the tragedy, and how it's changed their ideas around work, personal safety and community. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An epidemic of fatal drug overdoses prompted San Francisco Mayor London Breed to declare an emergency in the hard-hit Tenderloin neighborhood. She promised to open a new aid center and increase street intervention by cops and others. But as the 90-day order ends Thursday, have things gotten any better? And what happened with Breed's threat that some drug users may be arrested? Chronicle reporter Susie Neilson joins host Demian Bulwa to break down what's happened. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A moldy apple. A jar of used masks. A small bottle of vodka. Bay Area residents are holding on to artifacts from the pandemic to help them remember how they — and the world — have changed since the first shelter-in-place order came down two years ago. Chronicle reporter Annie Vainshtein joins host Cecilia Lei to share their stories. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monday marked the first time in two years that California students could go maskless inside their schools. Host Cecilia Lei and Chronicle reporter Annie Vainshtein visit a sixth-grade classroom at San Francisco's Hoover Middle School to see what has — or hasn't — changed after months of sometimes furious debates. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As lawmakers scramble to reverse a court-ordered enrollment freeze at UC Berkeley despite heavy demand, the debate is igniting the housing wars. The school and its neighbors are sparring over who is responsible for a central problem: just 22% of the school's students are housed by the university. In Berkeley, the failure to build housing goes back decades, but the politics have changed, with YIMBYs instead of NIMBYs ascendant. Chronicle reporters Sarah Ravani and J.K. Dineen join host Demian Bulwa to discuss the latest in the closely-watched battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A photo of a woman and her two children killed by a Russian mortar captured the world's attention. The woman was 43-year-old Tatiana Perebeinis, a chief accountant at SE Ranking, a Palo Alto tech firm. Chronicle reporter Carolyn Said shares more details of her life with host Cecilia Lei, and SE Ranking's Ksenia Khirvonina shares what preserving Tatiana's memory means for the world. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her first state of the city address to a live audience since the start of the pandemic, the mayor strikes an optimistic tone and pledges to tackle the city's most pressing issues, including homelessness and a battered economy. Host Cecilia Lei talks to City Hall reporter Mallory Moench about the mayor's plans, and to health reporter Erin Allday about whether we really are past COVID-19. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rep. John Garamendi, who represents a district between San Francisco and Sacramento, tells It's All Political on Fifth & Mission host Joe Garofoli about Saturday's congressional Zoom call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Garamendi talks about Vladimir Putin's similarities to Adolf Hitler, how oil companies are using the crisis as cover to gouge prices, and how Americans should be willing to sacrifice by paying higher gas prices to protect democracy. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/podFor more Fifth & Mission coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, listen to the episodes dated Feb. 25 and March 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices