Yesterday

Newsom rallies South Carolina democrats during tour

Gavin Newsom is firing up Democrats in South Carolina for a potential presidential run. For more, KCBS Radio anchor Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke with KCBS insider Phil Matier and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.

3m 34s

Jul 10

TSA says you can leave your shoes on and other changes to know, plus these spots should be on your travel bucket list

ITSA is changing its rules to let people keep their footwear on. But that’s not the only thing that’s changing in the world of travel this summer. We dive into topics from which spots in the world are overrun right now to place you should add to your bucket list.

30m 57s

Yesterday

What's really driving up the price of eggs?

It's time for our daily chat with KCBS Insider Phil Matier. State officials find themselves locked in battle with the Trump administration once again -- this time because of...eggs. Federal officials say the state's animal welfare laws are creating red tape raising the price of e ... Show More

3m 45s

Sep 2021

San Francisco and the American nightmare

Since the internet boom in the mid-90s, San Francisco has become a tech superpower, overtaking Silicon Valley. The city has more billionaires per square mile than anywhere in the US, but it also has more homeless people. Danny Fortson meets the residents of its tent cities.This p ... Show More

32m 37s

Feb 2023

The Most Empty Downtown in America

For the past decade, San Francisco has worked hard to turn its downtown into a vibrant hub, providing a model that other cities in the United States looked to emulate.In the wake of the pandemic, however, many buildings and offices in the center of the city have remained empty.Wh ... Show More

28m 17s

Mar 2024

The Billionaires’ Secret Plan to Solve California’s Housing Crisis

For years, a mysterious company has been buying farmland on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, eventually putting together a plot twice the size of San Francisco.At every step, those behind the company kept their plans for the land shrouded in secrecy. Conor Dougherty, an economics ... Show More

28m 13s

Oct 2023

New Dork City

Silicon Valley billionaires are battling local residents over plans to build a whole new city in California, part of a global trend of wealthy investors dreaming up cities from scratch. The San Francisco Chronicle’s J.K. Dineen and Sarah Moser from McGill’s New Cities Lab explain ... Show More

26m 7s

Mar 2024

The recession that’s always six months away

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell took a trip to Capitol Hill this week to testify about the health of the U.S. economy. We’ll get into the TL;DR of Powell’s testimony and why he doesn’t foresee a recession around the corner. And, we’ll talk about how political campaigns are sp ... Show More

10m 50s

Oct 2019

San Francisco’s Car-Free Market Street Makeover

Starting in January, San Francisco will ban private cars from Market Street as part of a major overhaul to make the city’s main thoroughfare safer for pedestrians, cyclists and public transit. The plan has taken a decade to approve. What can we expect Market Street to look like n ... Show More

15m 46s

Jul 2019

Hello, San Francisco

The city by the bay is ground zero of the tech revolution, but it has taken a dystopic turn. We dive inside San Francisco, where there are more billionaires per square foot than anywhere on the planet, but also more injection drug user than high school students. Families are flee ... Show More

29m 38s

Jun 2020

The Showdown at Lafayette Square

This episode contains sounds of explosives and descriptions of violence.Today, we go inside a high-stakes White House debate over how President Trump should respond to reports that he was hiding in a bunker while the nation’s capital burned. This is the story of what happened in ... Show More

29m 37s

Oct 2021

Bari Weiss says "the world has gone mad." She is using Substack to deliver "honest news for sane people."

Bari Weiss talks about her departure from The New York Times and her reemergence as the editor of "Common Sense," a newsletter on Substack. She outlines topics that she says are "not allowed" in most news coverage and argues that people are flocking to alternatives like her publi ... Show More

27m 32s

Could a Times Square billboard save San ...