From Neighborhood notes

Hello Readers:

Sorry this is so late, but lots of good stories today, starting with Joe’s column taking a close look at Alison Collins’s strange and terrible lawsuit.

In other news:

Stay warm and contribute when you can. It is quite something to have a site like Mission Local and that is thanks to all of you.

More soon,

— Lydia

Stories

Alison Collins’ strange and terrible $87M lawsuit

This lawsuit is an amazing document, and not in a good way — and all the more so because three different law firms were involved in its crafting. That’s on par with four writers being credited with the screenplay of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.

Neighborhood Notes: Theatre Flamenco reopens and more trees come down on 24th

Reopenings continue throughout the Mission, this time with Theatre Flamenco Dance School.

Covid Tracker: 35,170 cases, 474 deaths

New case numbers have risen 23 percent since March 18, but positivity rates and the R Number are stable and hospitalizations are at a new low.

First-time developers find a not-so-easy route to housing riches

Getting a project approved takes a long time and a pandemic doesn’t help.

Just a snap.

Kobe tribute on Mission

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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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