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 lift all them weights!”
For obvious reasons, that’s the last we’re going to talk about football right now. For San Francisco’s team, the big game did not go so well. But, at Mission Local, it did: Data maven Will Jarrett on Feb. 12 published a mind-blowing interactive feature that was the culmination of months of meticulous research.
Just as he did for the (ongoing) Web of Corruption, Jarrett created a searchable database of all the big-money players disgorging boatloads of cash into this year’s political races to remake the city in an image more of their liking. Jarrett’s stunning work was included as part of a collaboration with the U.K.-based Guardian newspaper, and helped illuminate thousands of readers worldwide.
Here at Mission Local, we’re thrilled. Instead of yet another story from an out-of-towner about doom loops and dystopia, national and international readers are getting fantastically detailed and revelatory work from a local outlet that knows the difference between 24th Street and 24th Avenue.
It took Will Jarrett a lot of time to do this. This is not easy work. But you know what? This is why you lift all them weights.
This is your donations at work. This is what you are enabling us to do. Please: Let us do more. Please do consider giving to Mission Local.
Joe