He's spent 35 years giving readers the inside view of San Francisco, Bay Area and California politics. Now, in this excerpt from the It's All Political podcast, Phil Matier talks to Joe Garofoli about covering Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom from the beginning. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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