Linda Sue Kocsis.

It is 7 a.m, 55° and there’s a hell of a good day in front of us – a high of  70°. Details for the next ten days are here, but even without clicking I will tell you that it is going to be warm all weekend….and 80 on Sunday!

That means few of you will be in browsing the internet or reading Mission Local, but so be it.

The most important decision voters may have to make in November will be over the beverage tax and both sides are warming up.  The California Report has a piece on a study from Stanford asking whether food stamp recipients should be banned from using food stamps to buy sodas. Who knew soda was food.

In other food news, SF Weekly asks who makes the best fried chicken, the Front Porch or Oakland’s Miss. Ollie’s.  What about the Blue Plate’s?

And Samovar is coming to the north end of Valencia street, reports the SF Business Times. 

That’s enough food bits for today.  Enjoy the sun!

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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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