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Ever walked around the city with a candy wrapper or apple core that you wanted to get rid of? Well, you’re not alone in trying to find a trash bin. The city has 1,500 fewer than it did in 2007.

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— Lydia

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Four men injured during sideshow at 24th and Mission

Four men were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following a sideshow at Mission […]

Covid Tracker: 35,029 cases, 463 deaths

The San Francisco R Number is back over 1 suggesting the virus may be back […]

Newsom’s experiment to get rid of public trash bins in San Francisco seems to have failed

It’s no secret that much of San Francisco’s trash — especially so in neighborhoods like the Mission.

People We Meet: Gregorio Castañeda

Gregorio Castañeda sells oranges, eggs, avocados and peanuts out of a van a few days a week.

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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.