It’s 6:09 a.m, 46°, and we’re headed for 59°. Details are here.

In the world of end-of-the-year lists, this one of weird travel stories must be included.

For those stuck in weird places, the year in fast food.

If you’re heading east today, to avoid your own dismal/weird story, check your flight out of San Francisco on the airport’s web site here.

And if you’re staying here and boarding a party bus for New Year’s, you’re also stepping into the center of an ongoing debate on whether the driver should be responsible for underage drinking, writes SF Weekly .

One last top 10 list (for today, anyway): the Daily Candy’s SF discoveries of the year.

I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.

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