It’s 7 a.m, 57° and headed to a sunny 64°. Details for the next ten days are here.

Carnaval! What more needs to be said.  We’ll be out on Harrison Street between 16th and 24th streets covering the day and distributing copies of the history edition of Mission Local. If you have photographs or videos send them to missionlocal@gmail.com

There is nothing more humbling than being wrong. I was just that on what would happen with the Howard Quinn building at Alabama and 16th Street.  In February, Google was in discussions about taking over the building. If not Google, it appeared that it would surely be a tech tenant.  Well, it turns out it will be the site of Dandelion’s chocolate production. 

The Calle 24 designation is just the beginning of documenting Latino history in the Mission. Stay tuned for more and attend the June 7 meeting at City College to introduce a new project on Latino history.

Okay, see you on Harrison Street. Enjoy the 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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