Saturday in the Park. 03.08.14 Photo by Gerard Livernois

It is 7 a.m., 52° and headed toward 70°.  This weather is ridiculously warm and it just keeps getting better. Details for the next 10 days are here.

Well, that was a hell-of-a commute last night. First, someone got trapped under a BART train at Balboa Park, closing that station. The victim died in the incident. And then a massive fire broke out at a construction site in Mission Bay. Miraculously, only one firefighter was injured.

The Cheat Sheet. SF Gate offers all of the reporters coming in to write about tech, a cheat sheet.

NY Bagels. Dear Mom will again be importing New York bagels this Saturday. Why? “Because they are better.”

Gentrification. Tonight at 7 p.m. at Bird and Beckett at 653 Chenery, join a panel discussion on housing led by the city’s Poet Laureate, Alejandro Murguia. Details are here. 

Art. Also tonight, “Home, Inside Out,” the 27th annual Solo Mujeres Show opens at the Mission Cultural Center at 7 p.m.

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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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  1. The SFGate piece was actually pretty funny, not to mention accurate.

    Finally the media turns on its own – attacking those in the media who are so lazy that all they can do is write yet another story on how SF’s success is failure, blah blah.

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