Matt

It’s 7 a.m., 57° and headed to a cloudless high of 66°. Details for the next 10 days are here.

A record number of California school districts are facing bankruptcy, reports the LA Times. Twelve districts, most in northern California, are not able to pay their bills this school year or next.

From the article:

All told, the financially troubled districts serve 2.6 million children. And the picture could dramatically worsen if initiatives to raise taxes for public schools by Gov. Jerry Brown and others fail to pass in November, officials said.

Looking for something to grub on this morning? Check out this piece on how the Blue Fig does coffee shops proud with its brunch menu.

And, following citations, a slackliner from Dolores Park asks for your support.

Writes Max:

Slacklining is in a gray area; no one has legalized it, nor is there any rule that says it’s illegal. By getting local community support of both slackers and non-slackers, I believe I can pull enough evidence and credibility to designate “slackspots,” specific areas where authorities and park services will recognize it’s a slackline-approved area.

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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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