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Here is a newsflash from last night – Mission Local won the Online News Association’s award for General Excellence! Here are the details.

Now, all we have to do is raise a good chunk of money. The later is always an issue, but reader support is what keeps us going so thank you. We all won last night.

Enjoy the week,

Lydia, Joe, Annika, Eleni, Will and Yujie

Top news of the week

A big banner with VOTE on it.

Mayor Breed’s opposition to increasing voter turnout is bewildering

Getting more people out to vote is the point of any election, isn’t it?

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Double Play bar burns — memorabilia destroyed

The Double Play at 16th and Bryant, a treasure of baseball memorabilia going back to the days when the Seals Stadium sat […]

Domestic workers and day laborers take center stage

We dance too!

Meet 75+ local artists at Art Explosion Studios this weekend

More than 100 art enthusiasts roamed through Art Explosion Studios for Friday’s opening night.

a police chief sitting at a pubic meeting.

Cop Watch: Mayor Breed pulls strings — wins some, loses some

And where is the community at police reform meetings?

3061 16th

‘House of Hope:’ Homeless youth housing opens in the Mission

The past month has seen many young people periodically enter and exit the unremarkable doorway at 3061 16th St. Although it looks […]

Covid-19 Tracker: ‘It’s over’ (not)

Hospitalizations, recorded infections and positivity rates have gone down.

Uber and Lyft

Gig bits: Biden’s crackdown on gig-worker exploitation finally arrives

Companies push back.

Roosevelt Tamale Parlor closes after 100+ years  

Ten years into serving up plates of decadence and nostalgic indulgence, the current owners of Roosevelt Tamale Parlor have decided to close.

Fixer hired for SFUSD payroll fiasco as teachers, staff still feel the pain

Many are still not getting paid.

Synesthesia and the city in Ron Poznicek’s paintings of SF

Ron Poznicek’s paintings of San Francisco, show the city’s mood.

Two women shot at 23rd and Valencia, one gravely wounded

The shooting took place early inthe eveing.

The Seed: An intimate portrait of a changing city

Filmed over a span of 10 years.

SNAPS

Sutro and Godliness over Dolores Park

By Mike Schuller

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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.