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It’s 7 a.m., 41°, and headed to 61°. Details for the next 10 days are here.
It’s flash mob boom box time at Dolores Park this weekend, writes Mission Mission.
There’s an election! NoPa v. La Lengua, and Burrito Justice is all about La Lengua.
And the SF supes voted thumbs-down on Secure Communities earlier this month. Now Los Angeles is being urged to take similar steps, says KQED’s California Report.
Enjoy the weekend, 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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