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Those on Valencia were widened and are now beautiful. The public art project by Michael Arcega — four posts each topped differently — also seemed like a good idea, but now, seeing them in place, I wonder. What do others think? Is the problem that we’re just not creative enough and post any old thing? Or is this simply a good idea that is, like life, messy?
Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.
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.
Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.
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I’m in favor of them, messy as they are. They don’t get many point with me as art, but they have a community building and first amendment political speech value. There should be a place in for lost pet posts, in the urbanscape. There should be a spot where posts for protests like Stop the cuts, there going to be a march from Dolores Park to City Hall post. They are messy, but legit.