Mission Local

Good Afternoon Dear Readers:

What a glorious day.

And, we have some good articles – a look back at the remarkable life of Salvador Lopez, the founder of Taqueria El Farolito, who passed away on New Year’s eve; the tracker, showing how impacted the Bayview and the Mission have been by the recent surge; and a short review on Mission Chinese Food’s take out. The latter is packed with some previous pieces (Definitely watch the Best thing I ever ate video).

Here is the latest from us – I’ve folded in Sunday since you may have missed it.

Stay safe,

— Lydia

Salvador Lopez, founder of Taqueria El Farolito, dies at 70

Salvador Lopez, the founder of Taqueria El Farolito and the amateur soccer team of the […]

Mission Chinese – still keeping on

Mission Chinese Food started out as one of the original pop-ups in an existing restaurant […]

Covid Tracker: 28,221 cases, 254 deaths

Average case numbers soared again, while hospitalizations and positivity rates dropped a bit.

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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.

As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.