Good morning!

Yes, Joe Eskenazi will be interviewing Congresswoman Barbara Lee at Manny’s on the 31st. Get your tickets now and join us for what promises to be a lively evening.

Joe’s been following the antics of local permit expediter Rodrigo Santos and discovered this week that Santos failed to get a permit for his backyard office.

If you’ve been confused about what went down at the Dolores Park hill bomb, Joe, Gilare and Will have put together a timeline and interactive that will take you through the evening.

This is the kind of careful reporting your support allows us to do. Thank you.

Later today, Eleni will be blogging the Police Commission meeting in real time. If you want to follow along and hear Chief Scott and residents talk about the Dolores Park hill bomb, check back in at 5:30 p.m.

Enjoy your day,

Lydia

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Explore: The hill bomb heard ’round the Mission, by the hour

On July 8, the SFPD arrested 113 people associated with the infamous “hill bomb” event at Dolores Park. We used witness statements, police records, and social media to look at what happened.

Rodrigo Santos accused of running illegal business out of illegal structure

The “shed” in Santos’s backyard, it appears, is his home office and it is unpermitted.

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Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.

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.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.