Founder/Executive Editor. 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.
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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ACCORDING TO TODAYS SF EXAMINER, SFPD IS EXPECTING A “GANG WAR” DUE TO THE RECENT GANG ACTIVITY IN THE MISION DISTRICT, IF SFPD ACTUALLY DID FOOT PATROLS, INSTEAD OF THEIR BS RIDE THROUGHS, GANG ACTIVITY AND NARCOTIC SALES WOULD DECREASE, CITY ATTORNEY DENNIS HERRERA, WHERE ARE YOU?, ISNT IT TIME FOR YOU TO ALSO SET INJUNCTIONS ON ALL MISION DISTRICT GANGS, NOT JUST THE NORTENO ONES?, SFPD ONLY MAKE THEIR PRESSENCE KNOWN WHEN VIOLENCE GETS OUT OF HAND, BUT WHEN ITS THE DAILY BS, THEY TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, IF ONLY THE CITY TREATED ITS URBAN AREAS LIKE THEY DO THE AVENUES AS IN ST FRANCIS WOODS AND THOSE TYPE OF NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT ITS ONLY A FANTASY, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND WALKING THROUGH THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS GOT ME AND MY FRIENDS REMOVED FROM THEM, CAUSE WE DIDNT BELONG AND LOOKED SUSPICIOUS, SAD AND TRUE, COPS RESPONDED WITHIN MINUTES, IN THE “GHETTO” YOU’LL BE LAID OUT NEAR THE GUTTER, GUTS HANGING OUT AND ETC, COPS WILL BE THERE WHEN THEY WANT TO, AND THAT IS THE SAD REALITY OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAY, INSTEAD OF HIRING THESE COLLEGE BOOK NERD COPS, HIRE THE ONES THAT HAVE SOME SORT OF STREET SMART AND COMMON SENSE, NOT THE ONES THAT RACIAL PROFILE.