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Author Archives: Heather Smith

Heather Smith covers a beat that spans health, food, and the environment, as well as shootings, stabbings, various small fires, and shouting matches at public meetings. She is a 2007 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism and a contributor to the book Infinite City.

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Posted inSNAPS

Snap from the past

by Heather Smith June 29, 2019June 27, 2019
Posted inMobile

Big Hair, Protest, Dancing in the Street: Such Was the Mission in the ’80s

by Heather Smith November 28, 2018September 29, 2020
Posted inFeatured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Disaster Training, Part 1: What to Have on Hand

by Heather Smith January 4, 2018September 29, 2020
Posted inBusiness

San Francisco Ice Cream Is All About Straus Dairy

by Heather Smith June 30, 2015June 17, 2021
Posted inFeatured, Front Page, Mobile, The Arts, Today's Mission

MAPPing the Mission,One Yard and Garage at a Time

by Heather Smith February 1, 2014September 29, 2020
Posted inThe Arts

My Mission: DJ Carnita

by Heather Smith March 23, 2012February 11, 2022
Posted inFeatured, Front Page, Topics

Street Science: Your SF Frogs, Local and Secret

by Heather Smith December 28, 2011November 26, 2020
Posted inFeatured, Front Page, Topics

Street Science: The Poop on Your Sidewalk, Part II

by Heather Smith November 26, 2011November 26, 2020
Posted inFeatured, Front Page

Street Science: Lines

by Heather Smith November 10, 2011November 26, 2020
Posted inToday's Mission

Bernal’s Neighborhood Currency Makes the Wall Street Journal

by Heather Smith October 7, 2011October 6, 2011
Posted inToday's Mission

Good Morning Mission

by Heather Smith October 7, 2011September 29, 2020
Posted inSNAPS, The Arts, Today's Mission, Topics

Death, in Three Dimensions

by Heather Smith October 6, 2011September 29, 2020
Posted inFront Page

The Mission, on Missing Steve Jobs

by Heather Smith October 5, 2011September 29, 2020
Posted inToday's Mission

Good Morning Mission!

by Heather Smith October 5, 2011September 29, 2020
Posted inToday's Mission

Required Reading for All You Tree Stalkers Out There

by Heather Smith October 4, 2011October 4, 2011

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