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Lydia Chávez
It’s 7 a.m., 52°, and heading to 58°. Details are here. Will we ever have summer?
The Bay Citizen unveiled its bike accident app, which is cool, and we’re very jealous. Hats off to you!
Eric Fischer has been wandering around here again and gives us the Mission/South Van Ness turn as a stencil. And it’s right on Valencia and 17th.
And Martha at Estudio Martita has created Plenty of Prints, treasures from the SF Etsy team.
Stay dry. lc
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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