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Hello Readers:

Resiliance – we’ve seen in it spades during the last year and today we have a particularly amazing young man who has worked, painted and studied his way through the last year.

In other news:

Stay safe and enjoy the weather,

— Lydia

Stories

The state of San Francisco corruption

It’s the Ides of March in the year 2021, and the fortune-cookie pejorative “May you live in interesting times” makes all too much sense. 

Vaccine eligibility expands and positivity rates continue to fall

As both California and San Francisco extended vaccine eligibility Monday.

Covid Tracker: 34,583 cases, 446 deaths

Average new case numbers, hospitalizations and positivity rates have plateaued at relatively low levels.

No time to complain: Art and work get this student through the pandemic

Derek, 18, is a senior at City Arts & Tech High School and lives in a single room occupancy hotel.

Curtain # 1, Box # 2 or Box # 3?

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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 and an 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.