Newsletter Archives - Mission Local https://missionlocal.org/category/newsletter/ Local news for a global city Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:47:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://missionloca.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/iconlogomap-100x100.jpg Newsletter Archives - Mission Local https://missionlocal.org/category/newsletter/ 32 32 High-impact local reporting goes international https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/high-impact-local-reporting-goes-international/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:13:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=583548 Good morning! Many years ago, during a particularly big game, New York football Giants coach Bill Parcells leaned into his players with a particularly resonant message: “This is why you […]

High-impact local reporting goes international

]]> Becoming a reporter https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/becoming-a-reporter/ Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:45:01 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=578250 What’s up everyone! It’s Annika Hom and I’m asking you to donate. After 3.5 years at Mission Local, I like to say I’m a veteran reporter — which just means […]

Becoming a reporter

]]> Readers, you’re rich! https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/readers-youre-rich/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:25:54 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=574151 Or that’s what we’re told when we approach major donors for support.  Why should we fund you, they ask, when you operate in one of the richest cities in the […]

Readers, you’re rich!

]]> APEC is coming to SF: Write your own ‘Mad Libs’-type Doom Loop story! https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/apec-san-francisco-mad-libs-type-story/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/apec-san-francisco-mad-libs-type-story/#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=572787 A postcard of San Francisco featuring trash, tents, and a broken down bus.

This article was originally published March 20, 2023. But, you know, it feels timely right now. APEC is here, and tens of thousands of international dignitaries and journalists will be […]

APEC is coming to SF: Write your own ‘Mad Libs’-type Doom Loop story!

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/apec-san-francisco-mad-libs-type-story/feed/ 8 It was 34 years ago today: Trapped on the Bay Bridge during the Loma Prieta quake https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/earthquake-san-francisco-loretta-eskenazi/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/earthquake-san-francisco-loretta-eskenazi/#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:50:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=411036 Loma Prieta quake damage on the Bay Bridge

Oct. 17, 1989 — I had just felt what it was like to be clothes tumble-drying in the old Kenmore. My little white Toyota gyrated while I rationalized away a […]

It was 34 years ago today: Trapped on the Bay Bridge during the Loma Prieta quake

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/earthquake-san-francisco-loretta-eskenazi/feed/ 7 Follow the opioid data, NY doc tells SF https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/follow-the-opioid-data-ny-doc-tells-sf/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:15:31 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=566386 Good afternoon! Here is today’s lineup: Will San Francisco ever follow the data to help solve the city’s opioid crisis? A New York data expert in overdose treatment says that […]

Follow the opioid data, NY doc tells SF

]]> How the SF Police Commission works https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/how-the-sf-police-commission-works/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:04:32 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=566131 Good morning readers: The Police Commission has gotten a lot of heat lately for doing this or that, but turns out, the critics often misunderstand how it works. It’s complicated, […]

How the SF Police Commission works

]]> Toilet paper and SF’s budget https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/toilet-paper-and-sfs-budget/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:19:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=565984 Good morning! The scarcity of toilet paper defined the consumer experience during the early days of the pandemic and today Joe Eskenazi uses toilet paper to explain SF’s budget squabbles. […]

Toilet paper and SF’s budget

]]> Juana Alicia and other cultural events https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/juana-alicia-and-other-cultural-events/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:00:12 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=564652 Good morning! There’s a wonderful show at the SF Arts Commission’s main gallery downtown featuring Juana Alicia, the artist and muralist who will also be at a two-day symposium. Andrew […]

Juana Alicia and other cultural events

]]> Covid numbers increase, testing site adds hours https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/covid-numbers-increase-testing-site-adds-hours/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:29:41 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=564501 Good morning! Sara, our super volunteer, is away for a few days so I am stepping in. As we enter the fall flu season, Covid has returned. In response, the […]

Covid numbers increase, testing site adds hours

]]> Day 15: Detectorists, hope and ML https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/day-15-detectorists-hope-and-ml/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:37:41 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=562150 Dear Readers: Three times in the last six months, I’ve rewatched the final episode of The Detectorists, a small British dramedy written by Mackenzie Crook. In it, Crook’s character, Andy, […]

Day 15: Detectorists, hope and ML

]]> Quiz of the week: How much money did the SF Chronicle Guild secure for their journalists? https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/quiz-of-the-week-chronicle-guild-mural-jail-lawsuit-august-13/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/quiz-of-the-week-chronicle-guild-mural-jail-lawsuit-august-13/#respond Sun, 13 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=561449 Four photos from the week's news.

Welcome back to the Mission’s premiere weekly news quiz. Have a go at seven questions from the past seven days, covering a union contract, a BART project, and a lawsuit […]

Quiz of the week: How much money did the SF Chronicle Guild secure for their journalists?

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/quiz-of-the-week-chronicle-guild-mural-jail-lawsuit-august-13/feed/ 0 A thud, a crash, and a scream  https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/a-thud-a-crash-and-a-scream/ Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:30:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=561550 Hello everyone.  When I’m not working at Mission Local, I’m usually keeping an eye on my three kids. Work, kids — that’s pretty much it. Truth be told, these blend together. […]

A thud, a crash, and a scream 

]]> Mission landlord tries third Ellis Act eviction in five years https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/mission-landlord-tries-third-ellis-act-eviction-in-five-years/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/mission-landlord-tries-third-ellis-act-eviction-in-five-years/#comments Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:50:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=561361 A line of seven individuals stand in front of a modest apartment with sunlit windows. A woman in a black dress and black heels is on the far most left and a young lady in a yellow striped shirt and slacks is on the far-most right. In between are a group of Latino residents, three who are seniors, who are getting evicted.

Michael Campesino pursued the 25th Street eviction in his usual fashion.  In November 2019, he tapped his company to buy the six-unit, aging Mission District apartment building. The building at […]

Mission landlord tries third Ellis Act eviction in five years

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/mission-landlord-tries-third-ellis-act-eviction-in-five-years/feed/ 28 Behind the scenes at ML & the news https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/behind-the-scenes-at-ml-the-news/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:03:14 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=561215 Dear Reader: This is how we work. On Monday, our reporter Yujie was at the California Public Utilities Commission meeting where firefighters and police officers said they would rather not […]

Behind the scenes at ML & the news

]]> One day at Mission Local & the News https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/one-day-at-mission-local-the-news/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:33:14 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=560774 Dear Readers: We thought we’d walk you through a day in the life of a Mission Local reporter. Friday at 10:30 a.m., for instance, I got a story under embargo […]

One day at Mission Local & the News

]]> ‘Blanket the city:’ CEO says SF can handle 10x more Cruise driverless vehicles https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-origin-waymo-robotaxi-driverless-car-autonomous-vehicle-california-public-utilities-commission/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-origin-waymo-robotaxi-driverless-car-autonomous-vehicle-california-public-utilities-commission/#comments Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560625

A generation ago, if you saw someone using an iPhone, you pointed and stared: Hey look! An iPhone! They were a novelty. But then they became ubiquitous. And, then, beyond […]

‘Blanket the city:’ CEO says SF can handle 10x more Cruise driverless vehicles

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-origin-waymo-robotaxi-driverless-car-autonomous-vehicle-california-public-utilities-commission/feed/ 19 Quiz of the week: El Rio is in the running for which national award? https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/quiz-of-the-week-el-rio-homey-auto-tow-august-6/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/quiz-of-the-week-el-rio-homey-auto-tow-august-6/#respond Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560451 Four photos from the week's news.

Welcome back to the Mission’s favorite, or at least closest, weekly news quiz. This week we have seven questions spanning burgeoning election campaigns, an allegedly law-breaking towing company, and teenagers […]

Quiz of the week: El Rio is in the running for which national award?

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/quiz-of-the-week-el-rio-homey-auto-tow-august-6/feed/ 0 15 Years: How we train reporters https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/15-years-how-we-train-reporters/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 15:15:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=560523 I recently gave a master class for the Emerson Collective on how we train our reporters. As an example, I pulled a February fire at a public housing project because […]

15 Years: How we train reporters

]]> Philz founder’s son owns building where cafe won’t renew lease https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/building-housing-philz-original-cafe-closed-for-lease-nonrenewal-owned-by-cafes-co-founder/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/building-housing-philz-original-cafe-closed-for-lease-nonrenewal-owned-by-cafes-co-founder/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:44:06 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560430 a room

The 24th Street building that houses the original Philz Coffee — which the company told its employees is permanently closing because it chose not to renew its lease — turns out […]

Philz founder’s son owns building where cafe won’t renew lease

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/building-housing-philz-original-cafe-closed-for-lease-nonrenewal-owned-by-cafes-co-founder/feed/ 7 Mission Covid-19 testing, vaccine site scales back to a day a week https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/mission-covid-testing-vaccine-site-scales-back-to-a-day-a-week/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/mission-covid-testing-vaccine-site-scales-back-to-a-day-a-week/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:57:45 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560422 Women at the 24th and Capp testing and vaccine site

“We are hoping to do a big push for the Triple Vax campaign if we’re able to obtain vaccines,” Jones said. 

Mission Covid-19 testing, vaccine site scales back to a day a week

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/mission-covid-testing-vaccine-site-scales-back-to-a-day-a-week/feed/ 1 SF wants 450+ units at 16th & Mission affordable housing site https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/sf-wants-450-plus-units-at-16th-mission-affordable-housing-site/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/sf-wants-450-plus-units-at-16th-mission-affordable-housing-site/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:45:42 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560302 A vacant Walgreens building with graffiti on it may become affordable housing.

While previous plans imagined the oddly shaped parcel at 1979 Mission St. hosting some 330 affordable units, the city is asking potential developers to think bigger — specifically, some 120 units bigger.

SF wants 450+ units at 16th & Mission affordable housing site

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/sf-wants-450-plus-units-at-16th-mission-affordable-housing-site/feed/ 4 SF moves to punish allegedly predatory towing company  https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/auto-towing-debarment/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/auto-towing-debarment/#comments Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:22:40 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560237

City Attorney David Chiu announced today that the city has initiated debarment proceedings against Auto Towing, a towing service in Hunters Point. The action comes after months of alleged illegal […]

SF moves to punish allegedly predatory towing company 

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/auto-towing-debarment/feed/ 13 Day 3 of our Quinceañera Party! (And today’s news) https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/day-3-of-our-quinceanera-party-and-todays-news/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:11:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=560139 Dear Readers: Dios mío! It’s not easy being 15 – or celebrating for 15 days. But, already many of you have joined the party to support the work that we […]

Day 3 of our Quinceañera Party! (And today’s news)

]]> Explore: San Francisco’s 2023-25 budget https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/explore-san-francisco-budget-2023-2024-2025/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/explore-san-francisco-budget-2023-2024-2025/#comments Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=555548 Graphics exploring the San Francisco two-year budget.

After months of political wrangling and intense number-crunching, the final budget for San Francisco’s coming two years was released by the Controller’s Office yesterday. And it is a whopper. The […]

Explore: San Francisco’s 2023-25 budget

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/explore-san-francisco-budget-2023-2024-2025/feed/ 7 Immigrant teens sell art to make their ‘dreams come true’ at Disneyland https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/immigrant-teens-sell-art-to-make-their-dreams-come-true-at-disney/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/immigrant-teens-sell-art-to-make-their-dreams-come-true-at-disney/#respond Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:18:31 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560109 Three young Latino men pose and hold up white tee-shirts they plan to sell to fund a trip to Disneyland.

“We grew up watching Disney movies,” Iraheta said in Spanish, eyes lighting up beneath his bouncy curls. “Mickey Mouse, the Disney princesses.”

Immigrant teens sell art to make their ‘dreams come true’ at Disneyland

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/immigrant-teens-sell-art-to-make-their-dreams-come-true-at-disney/feed/ 0 Mission Local’s quinceañera! https://missionlocal.org/newsletter/mission-locals-quinceanera/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:05:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=559548 Mission Local turns 15 this year!   Why is that meaningful, you ask? Well, if you were a young Latina, you’d be celebrating your quinceañera. You’d have a fabulous dress and […]

Mission Local’s quinceañera!

]]> Starbucks workers rally in SF, part of nationwide union tour https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/starbucks-workers-rally-sf-nationwide-union-tour/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/starbucks-workers-rally-sf-nationwide-union-tour/#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2023 02:40:42 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=559622 A large group of people in front of a building.

Starbucks workers rallied in San Francisco today as part of a 13-city bus tour across the nation to draw attention to what they called union-busting tactics from the coffee giant, […]

Starbucks workers rally in SF, part of nationwide union tour

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/starbucks-workers-rally-sf-nationwide-union-tour/feed/ 1 Bob Lee killing: Defense tries to discredit motive, evidence—but prosecutors bite back https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/bob-lee-killing-defense-attorneys-try-to-cast-doubt-on-crime-scene-evidence-prosecutors-bite-back/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/bob-lee-killing-defense-attorneys-try-to-cast-doubt-on-crime-scene-evidence-prosecutors-bite-back/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:32:40 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=559524 Saam Zangeneh and Bradford Cohen, Nima Momeni's criminal attorneys, standing in a press scrum on day one of the preliminary hearing.

Defense attorneys for Nima Momeni, the man accused of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee, attempted on Monday to cast doubt on the motive for the murder and on crime […]

Bob Lee killing: Defense tries to discredit motive, evidence—but prosecutors bite back

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/bob-lee-killing-defense-attorneys-try-to-cast-doubt-on-crime-scene-evidence-prosecutors-bite-back/feed/ 4 Missing Mission girl, 12, found after community search https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/mission-community-searches-for-missing-12-year-old-girl/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/mission-community-searches-for-missing-12-year-old-girl/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:54:39 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=559503 A flyer of a missing child, Mayra Espinoza. The flyer features an image of the young girl in a Warriors hoodie, and contact information for those who have leads on her whereabouts.

Mayra Espinoza was last confirmed to be seen in the neighborhood on Friday, July 29, at El Capitan Hotel, a single-room occupancy hotel at 2361 Mission St. near 20th Street.

Missing Mission girl, 12, found after community search

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/mission-community-searches-for-missing-12-year-old-girl/feed/ 6 Quiz of the week: What new benefit did public city workers gain this week? https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/quiz-of-the-week-strike-scooter-carjacking-robbery-zoning-july-30/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/quiz-of-the-week-strike-scooter-carjacking-robbery-zoning-july-30/#respond Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=559269 Four photos from the week's news.

Welcome back to the best weekly quiz to be published on Mission Local this week. We have seven questions from the past seven days, covering a dramatic carjacking, workers’ rights, […]

Quiz of the week: What new benefit did public city workers gain this week?

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