SFNext: Fixing Our City

San Francisco Chronicle

Like any big city, San Francisco has big problems. Rampant homelessness, an opioid epidemic, widening income equality and deep political divisions. What’s stopping the city from fixing itself? Where are the creative solutions? And what happens when one person’s solution is another’s root of the problem? Host Laura Wenus and producer Cintia Lopez are on a quest to find out, one San Francisco story at a time.SFNext: Fixing Our City is part of the San Francisco Chronicle's SFNext project.Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod.Twitter: @sfnextGot a tip, question, comment? Email us at sfnext@sfchronicle.com

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SFNext: Fixing Our City

Episodes (54)

Jun 20, 2023 ‘No Moderate or Progressive Potholes’: Board President Aaron Peskin Says Now is the Time to Come Together
Jun 13, 2023 Soup With the Supes: Ronen Says Local Solutions Ignore Root Causes
Jun 6, 2023 Soup With the Supes: Catherine Stefani on Police and Public Safety

SFNext: Fixing Our City

Jun 20, 2023
26½ minutes
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Aaron Peskin, president of the Board of Supervisors, has spent the majority of the last 23 years in office in San Francisco, representing District 3. His district includes North Beach, Chinatown and the Financial District, but the role of president means he must broker compromises between his colleagues and the mayor. On complex crises like the coronavirus pandemic, fentanyl use, and homelessness, he says he also helps coordinate siloed city departments. And with so many crises at hand, Peskin says, this is no time for divisive politicking — which is why he collaborated with Mayor London Breed on legislation easing restrictions on bu...

SFNext: Fixing Our City

‘No Moderate or Progressive Potholes’: Board President Aaron Peskin Says Now is the Time to Come Together

San Francisco Chronicle

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