It’s 7:03 a.m., 58°, and will go to 81° today. Basically, we have the promise of nice weather all week.

What is parking like in the Mission? Help this guy/gal out.

Muni restoration task force considers getting rid of bus stops, or as SF Streets calls it, Muni considers bus stop optimization.

Mmmm. A restoration task force that optimizes.

Voluptuous food, not so full-bodied wine at Local: Mission Eatery, according to Grubb Street. The ML ed team ate there this summer — standing up — and we still liked it.

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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.

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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