File photo of the Mission and 22nd street fire in 2015.
File photo of the Mission and 22nd street fire in 2015.

Hello Readers:

Fire alarms. Make sure your alarms are working. The building at 22nd and Mission’s alarms failed just when needed and Julian writes about the contractor who has been charged with alleged fraud in installing them.

In other news:

More tomorrow,

— Lydia

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Just a snap.

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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.

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