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It’s nearly 8 a.m. – jeeze, should have gotten up earlier. The temp: 62°, going to the mid-70s.
Tip. Free pastry again at Arizmendi on Valencia. When I picked some up last night, one of the bakers said it would be a couple of weeks before they opened. But maybe next week. Until then, free food?
As you chomp your pastry, read about CalWORKS, the Rodney Dangerfield of safety net programs, via the California Budget Project.
And view crossing 16th Street at Church, via Eric Fisher.
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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