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It’s 7 a.m., 58° and cloudy, and we’re headed for 69°. Details are here.
What are the 115 best comics of all times? You’ll have to find out here, at boing boing.
Here’s the first reaction to Fresh & Easy’s move to Bayview, from the Chronicle. We’ve yet to hear when they will be coming to the old Delano’s site in the Mission.
And good news for young immigrants wanting to go to school: College aid for undocumented students has cleared the California senate, writes the Los Angeles Times.
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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