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Every Main Street Signal story
Filter by the civic, cultural, and small-business work that makes a neighborhood feel legible.
Civic Life
4 stories
Transit, planning, safety, schools, and the meetings that shape daily life.
Main Street
Business
008
The corner store that knows the block
No. 00834 min
The corner store that knows the block
Rosa Mendez on what a neighborhood grocery sees before anyone else does.
Rosa Mendez · Harbor Market
Main Street
Civic
007
Why Ninth Street finally got lights
No. 00741 min
Why Ninth Street finally got lights
Malik Price on turning years of complaints into a funded safety fix.
Malik Price · Civic Works Harbor
Main Street
Civic
002
How to nominate a neighbor
No. 00226 min
How to nominate a neighbor
Malik Price and June build the show's nomination rulebook in public.
Malik Price · Civic Works Harbor
Main Street
Culture
001
Why the neighborhood needed a signal
No. 00131 min
Why the neighborhood needed a signal
June Carter and Tessa Owens on starting a show that is useful before it is popular.
Tessa Owens · Juniper Books