Rancor around proposed tech cafeteria ban misses the point

Aug 6, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Don’t confuse a negotiating ploy with finished legislation. Don’t confuse politics...

Kickballers try to boot denizens out of SF’s Dolores Park; hilarity ensues

Mar 30, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Employee “won’t be able to continue working for SF Social,” says company director A...

Citizen ideal for crime watchers, but not crime stoppers — by design

Jan 30, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission, Trouble

Let’s say you’re at work and your phone buzzes. You pick it up expecting your 100th email or text...

Noisebridge, facing displacement, plans to come back bigger and better

Dec 28, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Being booted by August 2018 is not the first existential threat that the quirky,...

Collaborative hackerspace Noisebridge faces displacement from SF Mission

Dec 19, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission, Topics

Noisebridge, the renowned hackerspace that’s been in the Mission for nine years, will “almost...

Robot guards the dogs at SF animal shelter and frightens some

Nov 29, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

What’s five feet tall and weighs 400 pounds, shaped like a cross between an egg and a bullet, and...

Students of Mission-based tech boot camp for minorities kicked out of Dreamforce (SF Examiner)

Nov 13, 2017 | Business, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission

Update: A student of the tech education program reached out to Mission Local to say that the...

Mission startup prepares overlooked young adults for tech jobs

Nov 3, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Newsletter, Technology

One of the Mission District’s newest tech ventures isn’t trying to court venture capitalists or...

Diverse candidates crowd SF tech job fair, but tradition may clog pipeline

Oct 19, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission

Stereotypes tell me tech conferences don’t look like the hundreds of aspiring tech workers queuing...

$1 coffee and donuts all day at 19th and Alabama St.

Jul 19, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission

DesignMap, a user experience design company on 19th and Alabama streets, is selling $1 coffee and...

“Queers Hate Techies”: Gay Shame’s controversial ATA exhibit

Jun 22, 2017 | Art, Events, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

All month, the phrase “Queers Hate Techies” has taken up residence in the window...

One app developer’s ongoing quest for ticketless parking

May 18, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission

When app developer Hamza Ouazzani Chahdi first arrived in San Francisco from Paris, Chahdi and a...

Possible satire TV series “94110” makes its debut

Apr 4, 2017 | Art, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission

Years after flyers around the Mission announced the production of a television series chronicling...

Listen Local: The Women’s Building and Feminism in 2017 San Francisco

Mar 3, 2017 | Events, Featured, Front Page, ListenLoc@l, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Listen Local is Mission Local’s biweekly radio program. We broadcast live online at BFF.fm...

Filmmakers Offer Rides to Strangers Willing to Delete Uber

Feb 24, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In light of the recent sexual harassment claims against the rideshare company Uber by former...

Self Propelling Delivery Robots Testing In the Mission

Feb 21, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission

What’s this? It’s a delivery robot from Dispatch, as its handler must have told a...

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