El Pasado en el presente by Sangroncito

It’s 7 a.m., 48° and headed to 65°. Details for the next 10 days are here.

What we’ve been hearing about for weeks has finally happened. Facebook’s stock is for sale, and there are a few new billionaires running around. As another reporter once said, every blog needs a billionaire, so if any are reading this and believe in supporting a news lab, go here. Ah, the fantasies one has.

Cilantro. Ever notice how some folks seem to have a radical negative reaction to it? Given that there’s plenty of it in the Mission’s food, here’s a link from Boing Boing to a piece about what is perhaps a genetic connection to dislike for the herb.

More important, the city will tackle the wait for shelter that the disabled and older homeless people endure, writes the SF Public Press.

Enjoy the weekend, lc

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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.

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