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It’s 7 a.m., 36° and headed to 53°. If it’s like yesterday, it’s going to feel a lot colder than the low 50s. Details for the next 10 days are here.

It’s a good day to stay inside and investigate the Martin Luther King Archive.

Or to catch up on the excellent piece in Sunday’s paper by Jill Tucker on young middle-school students uniting against bullies.

If you want to remember summer, which seems like only yesterday, check out Uptown’s winter in Dolores Park.

And going national here, the Atlantic’s roundup of the most intriguing writing on pop culture looks hopeful.

Also, I can’t believe that “The Descendants” won big. Did anyone else think it was interminably slow?

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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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