Dandelion Chocolate storefront
Dandelion Chocolate on Valencia Street. Photo by Lydia Chávez

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Employees at yet another Mission establishment intend to try for a union. This time its Dandelion Chocolate and the move was triggered by unhappiness about the work level – more production, fewer employees, workers said.

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— Lydia

Stories

Dandelion Chocolate employees will seek to unionize

While chocolate factories tend to be the substance of dreams, workers at Dandelion Chocolate in the Mission District say their experience has instead become a chocolate-covered nightmare.

Biriani House – More Indian in the Hood!

Biriani House has been open a little over two weeks, in the old Dosa space, and already it’s a place to take note of.

Covid Tracker: 34,589 cases, 448 deaths

As of March 16,  34 percent (260,430) of San Francisco residents over 16 had received one dose, while 16 percent (108,496) had received two.  On March 16, the seven-day rolling average of shots per day rose to 9,032. 

Despite public outcry, Health Commission rules Sutter’s agreement to transfer ownership of two Mission Bernal clinics is ‘not detrimental’

Not all were happy with the decision: About seven callers voiced concerns during the public comment period that Sutter was again pulling the rug out from under the Mission Bernal Campus and abdicating its responsibility to care for the Mission community.

A year later, frontline Covid-19 organizers and docs discuss inequity and how to move forward

“The pandemic exposed the many vulnerabilities in our society, our inequities along age lines, along economic lines, along racial and ethnic lines,” said Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, the moderator of Tuesday’s discussion, the chair of UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and co-founder of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations.

Space, the final frontier

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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.