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It’s 7 a.m., 43° and headed to 62°. Details for the next 10 days are here.

So much going on, and it’s the last weekend before Hanukkah and Christmas. If you feel like staying on the couch or in bed a few more minutes, watch our holiday guide videos for ideas of what to get the ex, the nerd, etc.

And if you don’t feel like moving at all, you can go for one of La Cocina’s gift baskets.

Or make a pledge to Democracy. It’s not free.

And when it’s all over — after you’ve signed on to make a monthly pledge to Mission Loc@l, indulge at Foreign Cinema.

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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 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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