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.
More by Lydia Chávez
i believe
not being
Lydia
makes this
thought
a supposition
i suppose
but from
here
i imagine
Lydia’s photograph
that sad
boarded up
beautiful
housing
with so many
homeless
stands alone
“what will
become of us”
when houses
encouraged to die
as homeless
die
unhoused
Please post the article tomorrow or Monday. Today’s version is just the headline and a picture of the buildings
I’d like to read the article, but it isn’t posted. Please redo this, thanks!
I am unable to access the full articles from Lydia Chavez!
very frustrating.
It looks like the article got cut off?
Lydia You and Mission Local have been an invaluable resource during the last year. I am so glad i am supporter.
lani-