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This photograph at Mission Mission of Albion and 17th Street trying to clean up, shows that  doesn’t always happen easily in the Mission.

And check out Bender‘s new tee-shirt at Mission Mission as well.  But wait, first, congrats to Muni Diaries and maybe it’s time to try Fernet at Bender’s to toast them on winning the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Local Blog category.  Here’s to you from your loyal readers at Mission Loc@l!

SF Guardian readers also selected Mr. Pickles as the best sandwich shop.  Some ML reporters have been buying sandwiches there daily so the rest of us will have to try them.  And Mission Pie’s on the Best of the Bay list too–YUM!

Lots of Mission listings  from the expected like DelfinaTartine, ODC and Dolores Park to places I’ve never heard about like Last Gasp Books and  Cherle Burke Dance.  So much to catch up on.  Mmm wonder how all of these places would feel about getting 800-pound icons in front of their establishments.

Okay, but there is more to life than food. There’s the budget!  Armand Emamdjomeh writes about the supes plans to raise some dough by adding 0.85 percent to the state’s vehicle licensing fee to bring it to 2 percent.  If the board approves the fee, the city will make $45 million the first year, but voters will have final say on the fee.  Watch for the board vote first.

The NYTimes has had good coverage on the failure of the $75 billion loan modification program. Supes here are trying to get through new rules as well, but today’s Times says the modifications aren’t happening at all because brokers are dong too well with the delinquent loans.

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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.

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