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It is 7 a.m., 56° and headed to 79°. Details for today and the next ten days are here.

The Mission was once known as a place where the opposition to the Central American Wars ruled, but while those wars have long ago ended, it remains a neighborhood of activists interested in issues beyond the United States and Mission Local found one of them walking into a store. 

Well, what many in the Mission already knew, FiveThirtyEight figured out statistically—La Taqueria has America’s best burrito.  I have to say there are a lot of people in this house who would vote for Papalote’s burritos, but as readers here know, La Taqueria has the Mission’s perfect tacos. 

Writer Chris Colin invites you into his home for dinner, writes the Bernalwood. 

SF Weekly writes about the SFMTA’s new blog, Moving SF. 

And We Built This City caught a clown juggling at 24th and Mission Streets. 

Enjoy the day!

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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.

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