Manager Carlos Martinez at La Taza.
Manager Carlos Martinez at La Taza. Photo by Kate Selig.

Hello Readers:

Is it over? Not quite, but Governor Newsom announced today that the state will be fully re-opened by mid-June.

In other news:

Stay safe,

— Lydia

Stories

New Covid-19 vaccination site served by Mission Wellness Pharmacy and La Taza

A pharmacy goes to where its clients might be – La Taza.

California aims to fully reopen its economy on June 15

California will retire its color-coded tiered reopening system and fully reopen its economy on June 15.

Covid Tracker: 35,329 cases, 482 deaths

Numbers don’t always make a lot of sense.

Essential memories: The woman felt like the whole world was falling in on her

Mellissa Millan, a 25-Year-old student at Cal State Los Angeles who grew up in the Mission, started working with the Latino Task Force at the Alabama hub.

Just a snap.

Yes it is, now

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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.