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This year, it is all about elections — following campaign finance, the big inflow of tech and real estate money and drilling down on local races for supervisor and mayor.
We want our coverage to engage all of you and make smarter, better-informed voters. Ideally, strong news coverage should increase voter turnout.
You’ll be seeing Mission Local out in your neighborhoods, working on our weekly Meet the Candidate series. Join our reporters for coffee, send in questions for the candidates, or just let us know what issues you think are most important. Need to register to vote? Go here.
Here is a schedule for the next week, detailing when and where our reporters will be in your district, but you can also email them to ask. Or, check back on our site and click on the links below to find out when our reporters will be in your district.
Unsure which district you’re in? Enter your address here to find out.
- District 1: Junyao Yang will be in your district at Lou’s Cafe (5017 Geary Blvd.) on Tuesday, March 26, at 10 a.m. next week. junyao@missionlocoal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 3: Yujie Zhou will be in your district at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26, at Brioche Bakery & Café (210 Columbus Ave.) next week. yujie@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 5: Eleni Balakrishnan will be in your district on Wednesday, March 27, at Alamo Square Cafe (711 Fillmore St.) at 10:30 a.m. eleni@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 7: Kelly Waldron will be in your district on Monday, March 25, at Ballast Coffee (329 West Portal Ave.) at 1 p.m. kelly@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 9: Lydia Chavez is filling in while we await the arrival of a new reporter, and she will be in your district on Monday, March 25, at 1 p.m. at L’s cafe (2871 24th St)., lydia.chavez@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates by checking here.
- District 11: Xueer Lu will be in your district at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26, at Claddagh Coffee (951 Geneva Ave.) next week. xueer@missionlocal.com. You can find upcoming dates here.
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LYDIA CHÁVEZ
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.More by Lydia Chávez
