First, thank you to all our readers who have helped  correct the Mission Street map. We’re still refining it so keep those cards and letters coming.

Ideas for other maps? Anyone out there with free time who knows illustrator well?

Mission Mission has a great post and photos on the Mission’s new mural.  Good to see more coming up.  Alejandro Murgía, the Mission poet and professor, reminded Mission Loc@l this week that during the 1990s, the Mission lost a dozen murals.  So much history.

Meanwhile in random todayness,  Burrito Justice is on the trail of the missing chat de merde.

Okay, see you out at the park for the Dyke March and celebration.  Viola ran into the Trans Gender march–thought it was Critical Mass until she figured out they were marching, not peddling. Nope, she’s not the world’s best photographer, but  at least she remembered her camera.

Oh, speaking of Critical Mass, Rachel Gordon reports that all but one of the 46 bike plans got final approval Friday.  Here’s your link to the maps. Only the Second Street map was held up.

Okay, off to the market and then Dolores.  Mission Loc@l will be there shooting pix, collecting audio and selling cool tee-shirts. Stop by and say hello.

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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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