Good afternoon!

It was a busy Thursday night and Friday. My favorite story might be the fifth-grade teacher who turns a leak in her classroom into a science experiment.

Enjoy,

Lydia

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Someone holding up a bottle of contaminated water

Buena Vista’s perfect storm: Lead-contaminated leaks in classrooms

Fifth-grade teacher Adriana Álvarez dipped the test strip into the yellowish water last Friday, and showed it to her students. They gasped.

A man raises his right hand

Broadmoor rehires ex-police chief convicted of conflict of interest

Exactly one month after the San Mateo Superior Court expunged his conflict-of-interest conviction, Broadmoor police chief Michael Connolly is making his comeback.

District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, a brown-skinned woman with long dark hair, wearing a purple blazer and white shirt.

Public Defender moves to disqualify DA from McAlister case

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office filed a motion Tuesday that, if approved, would disqualify the DA from the case.

panel on safe consumption site

Safe consumption sites in the Mission? Panel tackles contentious topic.

A community panel in the Mission Wednesday night continued the hard conversation, but residents seemed skeptical about NY’s success.

SNAP

A sidewalk covered in loads of chips.

Chips ahoy!

By Joe Eskenazi

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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.