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Little can be more confounding than trying to get your child into a good school and this year the Latino Task Force and others are setting up assistance to help with the process, Anna-Luisa Brakman writes.

Chuqin Jiang writes today about a young Salvadoran woman embarking on a video project to highlight the richness of Salvadoran culture.

It’s a cool project that came about through her own curiosity and an earlier effort to use dance and video to engage students with science.

And on Monday night, Halloween turned into a hill bombing party at Dolores Park that ended with a stabbing and another injury. Meanwhile Mission Street filled with families.

Enjoy!

Lydia

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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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