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Joe Eskenazi writes on the violent attack on Paul Pelosi, taking others in the media to task.

And here is everything you need to celebrate Día de los Muertos, plus a listing of where to enjoy different events. Mission Local will be out there to take some quick videos.

Enjoy this evening,

Lydia

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Paul Pelosi: Violent attack isn’t an SF story. It’s the story of American politics.

Update: Federal charging document offers clues on alleged Pelosi attacker’s plan.

America’s moral climate has oozed over to meet the loon who allegedly broke into the home of the Speaker of the House and tried to murder her husband with a hammer. That’s the story.  

But no one wants to talk about that. So, instead, this became a San Francisco story. 

SNAP

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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.