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Mayor Breed may regret the scheduling conflict that prevented her from attending the League of Women Voters forum. She became the target.

Will someone fix what is terribly wrong at the Potrero Hill projects? We have been writing about it for more than a year, three hearings have been called and yet, the troubles continue with last night’s fire.

And what would the D-11 candidates do for the OMI? Let’s find out.

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Fire strikes S.F. public housing known for squatters, mismanagement

“Upon arrival, all three floors of the housing were on fire. It was blowing through the roof.”

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See how they run: Mayor Breed skips likely last mayoral forum — blasted in abstentia

“The mayor’s solution to have these vehicles towed that are full of children that are going to the San Francisco Unified School District is bad public policy,” Peskin said. “It is inhumane.”

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Graffiti of two white crosses connected by a line, spray-painted on a concrete sidewalk.

It’s been decades!

By Aife Murray

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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.