BigCommerce was at 24th and Valencia Thursday handing out coffee and promises of a shorter commute to its Soma offices.
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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^^^ we hope you will *change* our City politics, (not chafe)
yeah!!!! Welcome tech.
Long time neighbors in the Mission are really pleased to have you. Ignore the hating housing activists – we hope you will chafe our City politics and settle down here. We need hardworking folks, no leaches in this City.
Funny how those who have invested their hard earned pay into the City appreciate and welcome the new comers.
Now THAT’S the sort of activity and buzz we should be seeing around the fabled google shuttle bus stops!