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Good morning Missionites, yes, it’s official, the holiday season and New Year’s jitters are over — back to the regular routine, on a regular Tuesday. It’s 7 a.m., 48° and headed to 65°. Details for the next 10 days are here.

Is western culture taking over China? President Hu Jintao thinks so, according to the New York Times. An excerpt:

President Hu Jintao of China has said that the West is trying to dominate China by spreading its culture and ideology and that China must strengthen its cultural production to defend against the assault, according to an essay in a Communist Party policy magazine published this week.

In other news, as presidential candidates campaign across the states, making promises to uphold if elected president, locally Mayor Ed Lee is already facing challenges from the promises he made during his campaign. Read the story here.

Also, it is never too late to support Mission Loc@l. Start the year off right and support our team. Supporting Mission Loc@l is supporting community journalism.

Good morning Mission, have a great day!

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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.

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