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The art wall on Valencia Street got its podiums – it’s all part of a project by Bruce Tomb and the new parklet will be inaugurated on August 2. You can find out more here and here.
July 2015: dAP Parklet construction is complete! Now the work is in YOUR court! There will be an inaugural event August 2, 2015, Noon-5PM. There will be a sign up sheet on hand for speakers at both podiums. Mission poets, comedians and people with opinions are encouraged to speak.
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/executive 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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