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 no-barrier site for tests and boosters at 24th and Capp Street is increasing its hours.

The drive to unionize continues – this time at the Lighthouse for the Blind.

And, Mission Local has launched a new trivia contest called, Can you beat Joe? Good luck!

One of this year’s most widely read pieces has been Joe’s Monday column on the homeless injunction and the antics of Gov. Newsom and Mayor Breed. The judge upheld the injunction on Tuesday and we have updated the column.

The column is a pretty amazing piece of writing and reporting. If you appreciate it as much as I do, please consider supporting Mission Local.

Thank you!

Lydia

The Latest News

Mission Covid site will up hours during mini-surge

As Covid-19 cases ramp up nationwide, so will the response from one Mission community health site at Capp and 24th streets.

Can you beat Joe? Try your hand at pop culture contest #1

Few political writers use pop culture references as fluidly as Joe Eskenazi. If you can come up with better references, try our contest. A tote bag is the prize.

Blind, visually-impaired workers at LightHouse kick off union — first of its kind in Bay Area

Workers with LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, one of the state’s premier nonprofits, has asked for recognition.

Ban on homeless sweeps has disgraced San Francisco

The meta-goal for Governor Newsom and Mayor London Breed in attacking the judge is to deflect blame for horrific street conditions and voters’ growing rancor onto someone else.

SNAP

Well, are ya?

By Walter Mackins
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Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.

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.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.