In March, ML’s reporter Ayako Mie interviewed middle-class home seekers who were able to take advantage of the good real estate offers and buy a condo they could call home. However it looks like the San Francisco housing market free fall is starting to slow. SFGate reports that the “median declined 2.4 percent in February compared to the previous month and 7.9 percent in January.”

We got some sad publishing news today. Rolling Stone magazine is closing its San Francisco office. Jan Wenner who then 21 launched the magazine in 1967 after the Summer of Love.

The San Francisco International Film Festival is only days away. ML’s Amanda Martinez and Stefania Rousselle will be there video camera in hand to report on what the beautiful film people are doing. We can’t wait to hear about opening night and Peter Bratt’s La Mission, an ex-con who turned his life around.

The sun’s out this weekend. Stake out a spot at Dolores Park, kick off your shoes, and enjoy the warm weather!

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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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