The Listen Local crew in action.

In this week’s show, recorded on Thursday, October 16, we discuss that whole soccer field fracas. We ask: is it a potent symbol of gentrification or small potatoes? Also, this week the city lost two venerable progressive voices: San Francisco Tenants Union director Ted Gullicksen and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. We discuss the legacy these institutions leave behind and the impact their loss will have on the city’s political landscape.

Listen below:

To hear our next episode live on the air, tune into BFF.fm here, on Thursday, October 30th at 9:30 a.m..

Recorded live at BFF.fm’s Secret Alley studio. Intro music by Kevin McLeod. Outro by Maryla Rodowicz.

What should we talk about next time? Who should be our first guest? Send us comments, questions, and more at tips@missionlocal.com.

Daniel Hirsch is a freelance writer who has been living in the Mission since 2009. When he's not contributing to Mission Local, he's writing plays, working as an extra for HBO, and/or walking to the top of Bernal Hill.

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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