It’s nearly 8 a.m., 52°, and will only get to 56°. Details are here. Rain appears to be in our future.
To go with those free doughnuts today, Blockboard is offering free coffee at Philz on 24th Street.
More on Lt. Perez, the firefighter killed on Friday fighting the blaze in Diamond Heights, from SF Appeal.
James Franco, a man on the edge of overexposure, was in SF to guest edit The Thing, reports the Bay Citizen.
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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