This year, Mission Local is all about elections — following campaign finance, the big inflow of tech and real estate money and drilling down on local races for supervisor and mayor.
We want our coverage to engage all of you and make smarter, better-informed voters. Ideally, strong news coverage should increase voter turnout.
You’ll be seeing Mission Local out in your neighborhoods, working on our weekly Meet the Candidate series. Join our reporters for coffee, send in questions for the candidates, or just let us know what issues you think are most important. Need to register to vote? Go here.
Here is a schedule for the next week, detailing when and where our reporters will be in your district, but you can also email them to ask. Or, check back on our site and click on the links below to find out when our reporters will be in your district.
Unsure which district you’re in? Enter your address here to find out.
- District 1: Junyao Yang will be in your district at Lou’s Cafe (5017 Geary Blvd.) on Tuesday, March 26, at 10 a.m. next week. junyao@missionlocoal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 3: Yujie Zhou will be in your district at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26, at Brioche Bakery & Café (210 Columbus Ave.) next week. yujie@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 5: Eleni Balakrishnan will be in your district on Wednesday, March 27, at Alamo Square Cafe (711 Fillmore St.) at 10:30 a.m. eleni@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 7: Kelly Waldron will be in your district on Wednesday, April 3, at Ballast Coffee (329 West Portal Ave.) at 4 p.m. kelly@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 9: Oscar Palma joins us in April and he will follow District 9. He will be wandering the District this week and will set up a coffee for the second week in April. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 11: Xueer Lu will be in your district at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26, at Claddagh Coffee (951 Geneva Ave.) next week. xueer@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates here.
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Average nonprofit
newsrooms
Mission Local
individual
giving:
foundations:
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73.5%
foundations:
48%
individual
giving:
31%
earned revenue:
3.7%
earned revenue:
16%
Mission Local
individual
giving:
foundations:
22.8%
73.5%
earned
revenue:
3.7%
Average nonprofit
newsrooms
individual
giving:
31%
foundations:
48%
earned revenue:
16%
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This is a great source of information and a good service for San Franciscan voters. What would make it even better is to be able to click on a candidate’s name to see their responses to all of Mission Local’s questions.
I live in District 3, but I like reading the responses for candidates in other districts. Congratulations for making journalism matter and keep up the good work!
Lydia,
You are marvelous, my dear.
My candidacy in D-9 as were my Mayoral, School Board and districts 2, 3, 5, twice in 6 is to imbed myself inside the stories I write as the races continue and I endorse the other candidate/s whom I feel are best for the position.
I want to encourage the other candidates to become sponsors of Wikipedia at $2.75 a month and Manny’s at $36 to start and Mission Local for whatever will make you feel like part of the Last Remaining Enclave of truly Free Journalism in San Francisco.
I support these and several other similar enterprises with 10% of my income which is $137 (my contribution not my income) cause I can and I wonder if the billionaires are giving 10%.
If so, we’re up Shit Creek for sure !
lol
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