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It’s 7 a.m., 40° and headed to 60°. Details for the next 10 days are here.

It’s party time tomorrow night. Please come and celebrate News and Neighborhood Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. at 518 Valencia St. There will be empanadas from Venga and Chile Lindo, cookies from my oven and something to drink. Also, we’ll hear from a few folks who have been involved with Mission Loc@l, and if you’d like to say something, speak up!

There was a surprise raid just after 1 a.m. to dismantle Occupy SF, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. We’ll be following this story today if the Occupiers move to the Mission, as the city has suggested.

There’s a new site, Nextdoor, to connect you to your neighbors, reports 7X7.

Grist reports on a new diner’s guide that evaluates 150 top-grossing restaurants on how they treat their employees. As far as I can see, no locally based restaurant makes the list (I thought the Slanted Door was one of the highest grossing restaurants), but the national chain El Pollo Loco does make it, and does not fare well. It will soon have an outlet on Mission Street.

Enjoy the day, lc

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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/executive 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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