Balmy Alley

It’s 7 a.m., 52° and headed to 61°. Details for the next 10 days are here.

The grass is always greener. The Excelsior would like to see the tech boom spread into its reaches, according to a report on SF Gate.

Walk up Mission Street to Bernal. Once there you will find the newly expanded Ishi Sushi + Ni Bar, which the SF Weekly writes, is well worth the walk.

The Muni Map Caffeinated. Muni Diaries has the map for you. You’ll never run low.

A Mission cred question: What craft shop’s inventory is made mostly within a six-block radius of the shop?

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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    1. It’s good that Solnit got slapped down here. Her trite derivative piece on gentrification was little more than a self-serving re-hash to garner some cheap eyeballs the way “greed and envy” stories seem to do.

      This fifteen minutes of mediocrity too will pass.

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