Our stories for Friday 30 April 2021

An illustration of Jackie sweeping the street.

Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Rieber, who had an encampment on Bartlett Street, dies

She “did her part and stuck to herself,” neighbors said.

COVID Tracker: 36,074 cases, 534 deaths

Vaccinations are high, new cases and hospitalizations are low.

San Francisco General Hospital, vaccine appointments, insurance, primary care

Pandemic spurred thousands of residents to finally get a primary care doctor

And, the pandemic also demonstrated to local institutions how crucial outreach can be.

Rory Lydon at his Lucca door talking to someone on the street.

The absolutely nothing store: What is going on with Lucca Ravioli’s former space?

Lucca Ravioli two years ago and now? We’re curious and so are neighbors.

The Mission District’s Alamo Drafthouse will reopen in July

After more than a year of a pandemic shutdown, the Alamo Drafthouse, an Austin-based chain, will show movies again in July.

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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.