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WEBAbout. Since 2008, Mission Local, an independent news site based in the Mission District, has been focused on high-impact, enterprise reporting on everything from police reform to corruption at City Hall, housing, and the gig economy. Core to our mission is training the next generation of journalists who reflect the diversity of San Francisco.
Two SFPD officers, former SF cop arrested - Mission Local
WEBApr 19, 2022 · Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan. Two current San Francisco police officers and one part-time retired San Francisco police officer were taken into custody today by their employer for charges including theft of a machine gun from the SFPD and destruction of evidence. The SFPD announced the arrests today, …
New murals honor Chicana artist Yolanda López and pay homage …
WEBJun 16, 2021 · “It was on my bucket list to do a mural of Yolanda López,” explained Jessica Sabogal, the lead artist of a series of new murals on the 127-unit, fully affordable building on Folsom Street near 16th Street.
It wasn’t so long ago that trains ran through the Mission
WEBMay 25, 2020 · It wasn’t so long ago that trains ran through the Mission. by Elizabeth Creely May 25, 2020, 6:00 am. Railroad tracks swerving south from Harrison street, across 22nd street.Photo by Bill Cassidy. On a quiet Sunday in December of 1992, Bill Cassidy took pictures of the railroad tracks that once guided Southern Pacific trains down Harrison ...
Grand jury indicts SFPD officer Christopher Flores in 2019 police ...
WEBDec 7, 2020 · Flores is the second SFPD officer in less than a month to face fresh criminal charges for on-duty conduct. On Nov. 23, Boudin announced manslaughter charges against former SFPD officer Christopher Samayoa, another officer undergoing field training, for his shooting and killing of Keita O’Neil, a carjacking suspect, in December 2017.. Boudin, a former San Francisco deputy public defender, ran ...
Understanding the Mission District’s history
WEBAug 3, 2018 · Mission District history map. The nominal Mission of the Mission was San Francisco de Asis, founded by Spanish Franciscans in 1776, but Yelamu Indians inhabited the area around Mission Creek for thousands of years before that. Since the Spanish came, there’s been waves of immigrants and newcomers: Irish, Germans, Latin …
Good times, bad times: San Francisco, the Mission District and ...
WEBAug 5, 2019 · William Shakespeare, who understood a bit about pacing, knew when to keep it light. To wit, after the wrenching, heavy murder scene, he knew to insert a comic interlude in which the inebriated doorman at Macbeth’s castle could ramble maniacally and make piss and dick jokes.. The lesson here isn’t that even the crudest double-entendres about lechery and inadequate drunken sexual aptitude ...
20mission, A Live/Work Space for Tech Workers - Mission Local
WEBJan 20, 2014 · At the corner of 20 th and Mission streets sits a 12,000-square-foot space that’s slowly transforming. It was once a down-and-out single room occupancy (SRO) covered in spray paint and strewn with plywood. Rumor has it that after one person died by an unknown cause in one of the rooms more than two decades ago, the rest of …
Shop Local Disrupted: San Francisco Mission’s depression era facelift
WEBMay 4, 2017 · 1988 Illustration by Ben Pease. In our occasional series, Shop Local Disrupted, we are taking a look at how e-commerce is changing retail in San Francisco. To offer some historical perspective, this piece looks back at a Mission Street revived during the country’s worst economic crisis. The building at 2205 Mission street is striking.