It’s 6:23 a.m., 56°, headed to 63°, with a 40 percent chance of rain.

Rain or shine, look for Mission Loc@l staffers handing out newspapers today.

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Ah, it’s news you’re interested in.

Well, we’ve got a doc getting 10 years for a false pelvic exam, from the SF Examiner.

And climate change taking to the streets, from KQED.

Check back for updates on the rail throughout the day.

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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 and an 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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