August 2016

Hello Readers:

To unionize or not? A move is afoot in the Mission that started in 2019 with Anchor Brewing and became a fact at Tartine Bakery on Tuesday.

In other news:

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— Lydia

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Dozens of SFPD officers quit before facing serious discipline. An ‘informal’ policy seeks to fix it.

Leaving before facing the Police Commission is one way to keep an officer’s record clean.

Tartine Bakery’s workers are now formally unionized

Proponents of the Tartine Union won a razor-thin victory today after the National Labor Relations Board.

Mission Food Hub celebrates César Chávez’s birthday

Volunteers at the Mission Food Hub are celebrating César Chávez’s birthday today with the start of a food drive.

Covid Tracker: 35,083 cases, 463 deaths

Covid hospitalizations reach October lows as the R Number returns below 1.

At Gestalt. A snap by Angel Mayorga

Masked jazz

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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.