A crew worked this morning to take down a pine in the backyard of a building on 19th Street between Valencia and Lexington streets.
Why? No one there was sure.
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.
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Oh my god, here come the tree nazis. Pine trees: NASTY and as worthless as they come. Drop needles all year long allowing zero to grow underneath, clog up gutters leading to leaky roofs. Ever been in a pine forest? As desolate and depressing as they come. I hope this was done by a rich techie that is telling the CITY and the rest of the busy-body establishment to go eff themselves. Way to go homeowner, and guess how much they pay in property taxes to this corrupt city?