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It is 7 a.m., 59° and headed to 71°. Details for today and the next ten days are here.

It is the 17th! Will the escalator be running at the 24th Street Plaza? The big mystery will be answered later this morning.

Why does anyone become fixated on an escalator at 24th Street? Good Question. And, I have no good answers.

Well, this is one way to announce a block party, from We Built This City.

The 14-year-old accused of stabbing 14-year-old Rashawn Williams to death will be tried as an adult, from SF Gate.

And, time to read about something beyond the Mission—the Excelsior piece in SF Weekly. 

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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  1. Why fixate on the broken escalator at 24th & Mission? Maybe you are old &/or have trouble going down stairs–down is harder than up!

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  2. I’m pretty sure that SFGate article you link to about the 14-year old accused of stabbing Rashawn Williams reads that he will be tried as a juvenile – NOT as an adult. From the article “Rashawn’s family sat silently in the courtroom, along with members of the defendant’s family, while a judge read the charges of willful murder with a knife. They said their grief had been compounded by anger after learning that the defendant would be tried as a juvenile.”

    Can you please correct your post? Or correct me if I’m wrong.

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