Fifth & Mission

Paul Ash, longtime executive director of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, just retired, and Tanis Crosby has signed on to replace him. She explains to host Heather Knight why she wanted the demanding job and her plans for feeding swelling lines of hungry people. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reporters Alexei Koseff and Jill Tucker talk to Demian Bulwa about the extended eviction moratorium, Blue Shield taking over vaccine distribution, a school reopening plan stalling and Gov. Gavin Newsom feeling political heat over the way he's handling coronavirus. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is renaming 44 schools, including Lincoln High and Feinstein Elementary, a stand against the racist legacies of slaveholders and oppressors, or an unnecessary and expensive distraction from the crisis caused by coronavirus? Education reporter Jill Tucker has the latest on the controversy. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the end of the Gold Rush to the coronavirus pandemic, people have predicted San Francisco's demise whenever times have gotten hard. Total SF host Peter Hartlaub says the city has always rebounded from disaster, and will do it again this time. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keith Cormican has a very unusual job: he finds and retrieves dead bodies in lakes and rivers across the country. Cormican has been especially successful in Lake Tahoe, where in just under 2 months in 2017, he found six missing bodies — some of which had been lost for more than 10 years. Chronicle lifestyle and outdoors editor Gregory Thomas tells the story of how Cormican became an expert at finding dead bodies and how he pulled off the deepest body recovery on record in North America. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As scientists race to understand newly discovered mutations of the coronavirus, Erin Allday explains how they might change the trajectory of the pandemic. Plus: Aidin Vaziri shares some practical tips we can all take to protect ourselves. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shortly after she took office, San Francisco Mayor London Breed pledged to add 1,000 shelter beds to help with the city’s homelessness crisis. But after the coronavirus pandemic emptied out shelters, the city has been forced to recast its goals around homelessness. Chronicle City Hall reporter Trisha Thadani talks about the state of the city’s shelter system. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The center of the resistance reacts to Inauguration Day: Residents of San Francisco and Oakland describe an unusual mix of relief and optimism after watching President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris get sworn in. They share their hopes for unity and major policy changes now that former President Donald Trump is out of office. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How quickly can Joe Biden change the course of the coronavirus pandemic? Dr. George Rutherford, an infectious disease doctor at UCSF, is optimistic about the new Biden-Harris administration and believes we'll see a vastly improved response very quickly. That will include more vaccine doses being delivered in a far more organized fashion. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just as California tries to turn the corner on the coronavirus pandemic, a new variant is spreading, and it might be even more contagious. Meanwhile, thousands of vaccine doses are shelved after several people who were inoculated at a site in San Diego report serious allergic reactions. Reporters Catherine Ho and Erin Allday have details. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson tweeted a thread that went viral calling for his fellow tech leaders to #committothebay. He says he's tired of them packing up for Austin or Miami and "dunking" on San Francisco on the way out. He's not moving his company headquarters or his family out of the city, and he explains why it's important for others in the tech industry to stay put too. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

California has suspended 1.4 million unemployment accounts in its quest to crack down on fraud -- but hundreds of thousands of legitimately unemployed people got caught in the freeze. Business reporter Carolyn Said talks with Demian Bulwa about the issue, and what California is doing to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The coronavirus is surging. A more contagious variant is taking hold. People are struggling. But California has fallen behind almost every other state when it comes to getting vaccines into people’s arms. What is behind the chaos and slow pace? Who is to blame? What needs to change? Chronicle reporters Erin Allday and Trisha Thadani have the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No president had ever been impeached twice. That changed Wednesday when the House passed a resolution charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” In this joint episode of Fifth & Mission & It's All Political, Heather Knight and Joe Garofoli talk about what's next. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Have you listened? Chronicled: Who Is Kamala Harris?: podfollow.com/chronicled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Restaurant critic Soleil Ho has a brand new list of the region's best eats, which she'll update quarterly to reflect the quickly changing restaurant scene during the pandemic. Plus: Ho gives us a sneak peak at the new season of her food and culture podcast, Extra Spicy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices