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Lydia Chávez
It’s 7:07 a.m., 51° and going to a high of 57°. Details are here.
The Mission Playground — finally! There will be a groundbreaking ceremony today at 5:30 p.m. at Valencia and 19th for the work that Rec and Park will do over the summer, to include clubhouse upgrades, water garden, new safety measures and a state-of-the-art soccer field.
Advice for tomorrow’s bike to work day, from 7×7.
And the SF Bay Guardian is all about bikes this week. Read up!
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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