A while ago, Olga Talamante and I had made plans to meet this eve to discuss an important political matter.
I called her earlier today when I realized that this could be the Giants’ night to win the World Series.
“Any chance,” I said nervously, “we could get together at a bar and watch the game before we talk politics?”
“I’m so glad you called about this,” she said. “I’m a big Giants fan.”
So we met at a downtown restaurant with a big TV, drank cocktails, ate appetizers, and screamed with everybody else.
Don’t let our political friends know that we put the Giants first.
And please don’t tell them that I beeped my horn all the way home.

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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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