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Is Your Vaccination a Ticket to Freedom? Feb 05, 2021

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Once you get vaccinated against COVID-19, can you change your behavior? See your family? Get rid of masks and distancing? Yes and no. Reporter Erin Allday has the latest advice from medical experts, plus an update coronavirus variants. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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Newsom Scoreboard: Vaccines Up, Polls Down Feb 04, 2021

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California's vaccine roll-out is improving, with two new mass vaccination sites on the way. Still, Gov. Gavin Newsom's poll numbers have dropped, and a recall effort is humming along. Sacramento reporters Alexei Koseff and Dustin Gardiner talk to Heather Knight about the latest. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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SF vs. SF: City Hall Sues the Schools Feb 03, 2021

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Chronicle Exclusive: City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing the San Francisco Unified School district and Board of Education. @HKnightSF and @demianbulwa talk about the city's attempt to force classroom doors open after 11 months of distance learning. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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Why Lowell High is Dropping Selective Admissions Feb 02, 2021

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Education reporter Jill Tucker talks about the San Francisco school board's proposal to drop selective admissions at the elite public school, which has long been a feeder to the UC system. The move raises questions about the value and legality of an academically prestigious public school, and has upset some Asian Americans, who make up a disproportionate percentage of the enrollment at Lowell. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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Feeding the Hungry During a Pandemic Feb 01, 2021

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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

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A Whiplash Week in the Pandemic Jan 29, 2021

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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

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San Francisco's School Renaming Revolution Jan 28, 2021

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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

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Is San Francisco Really Over? (Again?) Jan 27, 2021

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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

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The Man Who Finds Bodies Jan 26, 2021

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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

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How Scary Are COVID-19 Variants? Jan 25, 2021

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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

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