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Hello Readers:

Exciting news! Mission Local got some national recognition today for “Testing the Limits” a series revealing the failings in the city’s testing strategy. Thank you to all who supported us through the pandemic, making good work possible, and thank you to an amazing team.

In other news:

Stay safe and enjoy the weather,

— Lydia

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A year later: Mission Local returns to the residents we spoke with in the first days of the pandemic

During the first week of March 2020, few residents or even government officials knew much about the deadly virus rolling through the city.

Mission Local series on Covid testing recognized in national journalism contest

Mission Local has been recognized by the judges of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism as a semi-finalist.

Covid Tracker: 34,573 cases, 446 deaths

Average daily new cases, hospitalizations, positivity rates and transmission rates appear to be stabilizing.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house egged — eggers ordered not to carry eggs as condition of release

Two young adults were arraigned in San Francisco Superior Court on Monday for sending eggs splattering onto the home of none other than Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Mission Local has learned.

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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.