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There’s a lot of anger, frustration, and outrage going around this week, and in this show we dig into what has neighbors so upset. In our first segment, we discuss some of the more recent chapters in a longer story about strong opposition to local development. After that, we take a look at the confusing mix of narratives surrounding the police shooting of Amilcar Lopez Perez last Thursday. We recap the different versions of events and talk about what comes next.

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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/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.

Andrea hails from Mexico City and lives in the Mission where she works as a community interpreter. She has been involved with Mission Local since 2009 working as a translator and reporter.

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  1. My understanding is that Amilcar Perez-Lopez did not speak Spanish that well. He was a native speaker of one of Guatemala’s various Mayan languages. Did you hear the same?

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