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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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I keep seeing Mission Local stories such as “800 marched on Mission Street” that occurred the previous day.
Am I failing to find a Mission Local Calendar so I don’t have to learn about community action events that I would like to participate in before instead of after the fact?
For instance, I have to go to the websites of Facebook pages of Plaza 16 Coalition, FLMN, Dolores Street Community Services, The Episcopal Church of St Johns, etc. to see a list of such events and I don’t know of a central website to find all of them in time to attend them.