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Lydia Chávez
It’s 6:55 a.m., 54° going to 64°, but it’s going to be in the low 80s in Arlington, Texas.
Game day! Game 3 starts at 3:30 p.m. Reaching out to Lone Star fans, we offer you this from a Texas sportswriter.
Yes on 19 is buying spots on the Colbert and Daily shows, says Boing Boing.
And Debra Walker goes negative in the District 6 race against Jane Kim, reports the Fog City Journal.
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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