How fast the summer goes, how slowly the budget is worked out.  And the Sacramento Bee reports on ways to engage–in Sacramento or from afar by texting. And if you want to know that the Mission, SF and California will not be alone in the business of IOUs, Judy Lin at AP has a piece on the Huffington Post

A new addition to Today’s Mission: For those of you who use Safari and can’t click on that big rectangular feature every morning–or even see the headline, which means you must be thinking WTH, we’re going to give you the link and the headline.  Today’s: Migra Buster’s, A cop watch group takes community policing seriously.

On to other news:   Once again the military in Central America is in coup mode.  This time President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras is toast. Or at least that may have been his last meal in Honduras.  The papers described him as still in his pajamas when the military sent him on his way.

That reminded me, wasn’t the former president of Guatemala Jacobo Arbenz still in his pajamas when the CIA-backed coup let him out of Guatemala in 1954?

Trivial, but telling. Few people in either country have the dinero to buy pajamas. At any rate, if any of this upsets you, the Mission District’s Central American community and supporters will gather at 24th Street@ Mission St. tonight at 6 p.m. to protest the Zelaya’s overthrow.

You can also follow our reporter, Armand’s,  twitter’s from the 14 Mission or visit him as he seems to have fallen asleep. (Update: He’s awake. Fascinating twitters.)

Given the new Muni and BART rates of $2 on Muni and $1.75 for the least expensive ride on BART, it may be time to buy a bike and Betty Bastidas leads us through all of the Mission District bike shops.  There’s one more to come.

SF Gate’s Michael Bauer adds to the list of late night dining places on Mission St–alas all so south they cannot be considered the Mission District.

But my favorite bit of advice to try is Andres Garcia’s on where to go for after hour drinking on Mission St. !Pasale¡

Oh, and before you go in for that drink, Leef (great name) Smith, thank you for your donation to our Empty Storefront project.  Only $502 to go.

Time to go to work.

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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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