Podcast Episodes

Emily Hoeven on Whether San Francisco's Backlash Mayor Is Making Things Better

Season 2 Episode 1

In November 2024, fed up San Francisco voters elected an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune the city's 46th mayor. Daniel Lurie, a moderate Democrat an…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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How a Broken Foster Care System Fuels Crime, Homelessness and the Addiction Crisis in Blue Cities

Season 1 Episode 31

Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care was a National Book Award finalist. Author Claudia Rowe exposes the chilling truth: the n…

3 months ago

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What Makes a Great City?

Season 1 Episode 30

This Thanksgiving week, Blue City Blues sits down with former traffic engineer and urban planner Ray Delahanty, better known as “CityNerd” on YouTube…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Danny Westneat on Why Seattle Can’t Seem to Solve Its Problems

Season 1 Episode 29

One of Seattle's most insightful chroniclers, longtime Seattle Times metro columnist Danny Westneat, joins us in this episode to discuss the blues th…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Nick Gillespie on Whether Socialism Is the Future of Blue Cities

Season 1 Episode 28

In New York City, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani routed scandal-tainted Andrew Cuomo, completing his at first unthinkable, then inevitable rise …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Can Blue Urban America Find Common Ground with Trump on Homelessness?

Season 1 Episode 27

On July 24, Donald Trump declared war on the homeless. At least that was how his Executive Order, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Stre…

4 months ago

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Blue City Crime: What Both Sides Get Wrong According to Criminologist David Kennedy

Season 1 Episode 26

Like almost everything else in present day America, crime in blue cities has become a deeply partisan and polarized issue. While progressives routine…

4 months, 1 week ago

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Hard Hats and Blue Cities: David Paul Kuhn on the Roots of the Working Class Revolt

Season 1 Episode 25

The modern Democratic Party has a class and culture problem. Blue city leaders struggle to understand their cultural and political disconnect with wo…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Whitney Tilson on Why Kids in Blue City School Districts Are Being Left Behind

Season 1 Episode 25

Children in urban public school districts are falling behind. While a handful of lower spending red states – Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and, most …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Cracked the Code on Progressive Governance in Blue Cities?

Season 1 Episode 24

Four years ago, a 36 year-old Harvard Law grad and City Councilmember named Michelle Wu rolled to victory as the first elected female, non-white mayo…

5 months, 1 week ago

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