This week we’re joined by Kevin DeGood, Director of Infrastructure Policy at the Center for American Progress.  We talk about the bill that just got out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and will be going to the full house.  We also have a couple of odds and ends as usual.

Below is the full edited transcript for Episode 289. Thanks so much for reading and listening.

This week on Mondays, Chrissy joins the show to talk about transit solutions amid coronavirus. We’re thinking about the reasons why people fear transit, why they shouldn’t, and what agencies can do to protect riders and workers.

Below is a full transcript of my discussion with Germaine Halegoua about her book The Digital City.  Hope folks enjoy this one, a must read/listen if you’re going to do any digital outreach or organizing.

We’ve got a cool new tool we hope folks enjoy.  We have the audio of the podcast connected to the transcript. Hopefully this is useful for folks.  This is a full edited transcript for Talking Headways Episode 287.

We’re joined by journalist Conor Dougherty to talk about his book Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America.  Conor talks about growing up in San Francisco, his literary inspirations for the book, and the arc of some of the real characters in his book. Full transcript below:

This week I didn’t want to say much because at this time people don’t need to listen to me talk right now.  But I did want to share some of the voices and speeches given by black mayors. CityLab put together a piece with quotes and I took the audio so you could hear their

We’re chatting with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about the city’s Complete Communities program, which seeks to coordinate each city department to support historically under-resourced neighborhoods. The full transcript can be found after the break.

This week we’re joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about some of the solutions cities are discussing to help businesses out during the Coronavirus.  You can view the un-edited full transcript here.

This is the full transcript for Talking Headways Episode 281. We’re joined by Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Inter Agency Relations for the City of Oakland. Warren talks with us about Oakland’s Coronavirus response including how they came up with initiatives to respond to the crisis and some of the specific implementations such