Hello Readers:

We have more vaccination sites and a fully open vaccine policy – anyone 16 and older can get a vaccine. Progress! Check out our vaccine/vacuna page to see where to go.

And, don’t forget tonight’s discussion with Joe Eskenazi and Heather Knight answering the question: Has SF become a caricature of itself? We are also going to try and live stream it on Instagram @ 6 pm. 

Enjoy!

— Lydia

Today’s stories – lots of them!

A Mission High teacher taught students how to make circuits in the park. Now, he’s under investigation by the school district.

Andrew Libson, a long-time Mission High physics teacher, is under investigation by the school district for gathering with some students outside.

SF Department of Public Health and the Latino Task Force open a vaccination site on Shotwell and 18th

A new DPH and Latino Task Force vaccination site opened Thursday at Labor Union 261 at Shotwell and 18th Streets.

Maurice Caldwell, wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years, reaches settlement with SF

The City of San Francisco has reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount in a case that has haunted him for years.

Covid Tracker: 35,667 cases, 513 deaths

Not much change in the numbers today as new cases, positivity rates and hospitalizations remain stable.

Essential Memories: Seeing the impact of senior isolation

Omar Romero was bagging up groceries at the Centro Latino de San Francisco Community Center […]

New rails – a snap.

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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/executive 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.