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Okay, this isn’t good. The Root Division, a non-profit arts organization, has been working out of a space on 17th Street for years. Now, they are threatened with another rent increase, according to the SF Weekly.
The Root Division was on 17th Street when it was considered the hinterlands and in the minds of many on that block – Mission Local used to be there as well – helped stabilize the block. READ MORE HERE
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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Always looking at the negative side of the situation.
4,000 hours to over 1,000 kids that perhaps can’t afford art classes is a good thing.
Your MO is to move those that can’t afford their Mission spaces to Oakland or the Bayview.
You fail to see any good with any organization providing a social service.
But then again – we know you are a useless troll.
And you try to hide your racist babble on occasion. It doesn’t work.