Harold and Matt meet regularly at Rainbow Grocery. They wait for the staff to take out the trash and look through dumpsters for free groceries.
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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Bonjour madame Goupil,
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You’re right,the Rainbow employees seemed aware and ok with the fact that people were outside waiting for them to bring out the produce.
They’re right–it is wasteful to throw away food. I bet Rainbow employees know and are cool with the recycling of their waste.