At 18th and Shotwell. Clean and painted over. How long will this last?

It’s nearly 5 a.m., 41° and on its way to 64°. Details are here.

The Pew Institute reports on the digital divide in the Latino community.

Captain Corrales at the Mission District Police Station has a literary bent, KALW discovers.

The Accident Attorneys do a neat summary of the Bay Citizen’s bicycle accident interactive, adding that bike accidents are increasing faster than ridership.

The Idea Lab reports on Stamen’s Knight project to provide data visualization tools that are useful to citizens. The first is called dotspotting.

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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