Fifth & Mission

Columnists Ann Killion and Scott Ostler on whether the team's move to San Francisco will turn then into a symbol for Big Tech. Also: What’s with that co-owner pushing a Raptors player? And is Golden State's championship run coming to an end? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Immigration reporter Tatiana Sanchez talks about 29-year-old New Latthivongskorn, the first undocumented immigrant to graduate from the UCSF Medical School in it 155-year history. Latthivongskorn is a beneficiary of DACA, a program that protects young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children from deportation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As high school seniors graduate and prepare to head off to universities, the college admissions scandal continues to play out inside federal courtrooms. Many of the defendants have ties to the Bay Area and numerous California schools have been called into question. The scandal has raised questions about parenting, privilege and education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

Criminal justice reporter Megan Cassidy joins Audrey Cooper to talk about a 113% increase in drug overdoses in California prisons since 2015. Nearly 1,000 people received emergency medical attention in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Randy Shilts may have been the first out gay reporter at a major American newspaper. In 1982, he began writing about what would soon come to be known as AIDS. He would become it's top Chronicler — and it would kill him. An episode of the Chronicle's history podcast, Not Your Century.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The A's would love to build a baseball cathedral on the waterfront, just like the Giants. Can they pull it off? And would that be good for Oakland? Phil Matier and Susan Slusser join Demian Bulwa to answer those and other questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

J.D. Morris joined The Chronicle days after the Camp Fire broke out, transforming his plans to report on PG&E. In this episode, he and Business Editor Owen Thomas take you inside how we’ve covered this multifaceted story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're sharing an episode of the San Francisco City Insider podcast. When 33-year-old Jeffrey Choate’s parents saw their son, homeless and addicted to heroin and meth, in Heather Knight's Chronicle column, they — and he — wanted to tell his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

East Bay Columnist Otis R. Taylor Jr. talks about the controversial arrests, fatal shootings and police intimidation of black and brown people in Vallejo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

San Francisco General Hospital has finally changed its billing practice so patients will no longer be charged $92,000 for a simple appendectomy or $24,000 for bumps and bruises. But in today's broken health care system, that's not the end of the story. Columnist Heather Knight talks about an effort to ban these bills statewide and how City Hall has promised to scrutinize S.F. General's budget requ...

With John Walker Lindh set to be released from prison, reporter Kevin Fagan joins Demian Bulwa to talk about the Marin County man who was captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2001.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabrielle Lurie, a staff photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle, sits down with Metro Editor Demian Bulwa to discuss how she covers the wildfires, the dangers that come with it and what stories she looks for in the deadly aftermath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Homeless shelters and Navigation Centers are critical in San Francisco's fight against homelessness. But they're only one piece of a harrowing, complicated puzzle. Editor in Chief Audrey Cooper and reporter Dominic Fracassa discuss the city's shelter system and the role that permanent housing plays in solving San Francisco's homelessness crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Aisha McCain spent years in prison after getting busted in a massive San Francisco gang crackdown, then she felt a lump in her breast and everything changed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi's death, a confidential police report with photos leaked. This week, police raided a freelance journalist's home to investigate who in their own department gave him the information. We discuss the raid, what happens next and what it means for journalists in the Bay Area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Managing Editor of Investigations and Enterprise Michael Gray talks about the Chronicle's past and present investigative reporting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interest in hunting and fishing is down in California, and so are the revenues generated from the sports that pay for conservation. To counter the trend, the state has hired Jen Benedet, a.k.a. Jen the Archer, to boost interest in hunting and fishing. We spoke with Archer about her unusual job and talked about whether the initiative can work in a state where many people just aren't into hunting. L...

Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of the People's Park riot which resulted in the only fatality in the long history of protest and activism in Berkeley.  To honor it, Heyday Books will release an encyclopedic  history.  We talk with its publisher, Steve Wasserman, and with Mike Delacour, the antiwar activist who started it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chronicle editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper interviews reporter Catherine Ho about her story on why nonprofits that provide services for people with disabilities are shutting down across California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The “Twitter tax break” San Francisco created in 2011 to draw companies to the downtrodden Mid-Market neighborhood is expiring. Chronicle reporters Trisha Thadani, J.K. Dineen and Roland Li discuss its impact and effects, both good and bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurtis Alexander talks about how far the Northern California town of Paradise has to go in order to rebuild — and whether it should. Lizzie Johnson discusses the difficult and monumental job the coroner had: identifying bodies after the fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the archives: SB 50, a new housing bill, has drawn national attention to a growing crisis in California. And it’s reinvigorated a years-long fight over about who gets to shape neighborhoods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Otis Taylor Jr. talks about Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, a black homeless couple he first wrote about in January. A Piedmont developer took them in, but neighbors in the wealthy, mostly white town soon began calling the police on them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With climate change threatening to make our winters shorter and warmer, writer Porter Fox looks to ski areas around California to understand how higher temperatures are already changing how resorts operate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A controversial and historic mural at a San Francisco high school -- with depictions of slavery and the killing of Native Americans -- has critics calling for its destruction and art preservationists threatening to sue to save it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices