Photo by La Eneida

It is 7 a.m., 51° and headed to 66°. Details for the next 10 days are here. All in all it looks like a very good week.

Bicycle couriers are back, writes SF Gate. That’s good news for places like TCB Couriers, one of the first new ventures. 

Bernalwood has a good post on the various essays that have been written about the changing San Francisco, picking out those that are most salient and interesting.

We’ve linked to the first, but it is worth linking to again and we offer you the second, which we missed.

The first is a must-read piece of analysis by Kim-Mai Cutler, entitled “How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained).” It’s a longread that masterfully combines quantitative data with historical perspective, economics, and policy analysis to clearly explain how and why San Francisco ended up being so darn expensive right now.

….On the cultural side of the ledger, left-leaning San Francisco journalist (and former Bernal neighbor) Gary Kamiya just published a refreshing perspective on San Francisco’s current circumstances, and the phenomenon he calls The Change.

READ THE FULL POST FROM BERNALWOOD HERE

Tech Crunch has done a great job of covering the domestic abuse charges and then firing of RadiumOne’s  CEO Gurbaksh Chahal. The latest is its analysis of Chahal’s blog post defending/explaining his behavior.

You’ll note that he doesn’t state that he didn’t hit her, just that he didn’t hit her as many times as indicated, or cause her injury or trauma. READ THE FULL ACCOUNT.

Enjoy the day!

Follow Us

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/executive 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.

Leave a comment

Please keep your comments short and civil. Do not leave multiple comments under multiple names on one article. We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and easy-to-follow rules.

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *