I've turned the corner onto Elizabeth Street. Hoops, Hope.

It is 7:46 a.m, 57° and headed to 70°. Details for the next ten days are here.

Today I watched the  early morning on the block bounded by  24th and Elizabeth Streets, and San Jose and Guerrero.  My report: 100 percent of the dwellings have yet to experience any movement. I saw one lone soul walking south on Guerrero and very briefly on 24th another woman was out to walk her dog.

It was less today the architectural details that told a block’s story and more the small objects or elements that owners or renters have added.  Hoops, flowers, signs.

Help document a block in the Mission! All you have to do is get up by 6:30 a.m. (or so) walk a block and take photos of what catches your eye. Then you e-mail or dropbox them to us and we take care of the rest.  You’ll get to claim a block on this map – it doesn’t have to be your block, just any that interest you.  If you want anonymity, that can be arranged.

Interested? contact us at info@missionlocal.com

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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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