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Lydia Chávez
Tom Temprano, a Mission resident, writes about the Campos-Chiu race for the Assembly on 48 Hills.
One expects to find campaign materials in their mailbox, but what one doesn’t expect is to walk out the front door and see illegal posters smearing a candidate taped to the lightpost at the bottom of their stairs. Yet on Monday morning I woke up to find posters decrying David Campos as a “City Hall Hypocrite” taped up in front of my house. READ MORE
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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Heavens to Betsy! Illegal flyering. I think I might be getting the vapors…
Why does Tom think these posters are “illegal”. Don’t we have first amendment free speech rights in this nation?
If Tom wants to make up some posters and tape them around the Mission, nobody will mind.