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I worked many years as a staff writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle until April of 2009, when I switched to freelancing. I then wrote for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and I also took on editing assignments for UC Berkeley and the United Nations.
Being an East Bay reporter for Patch brings my career full circle in the East Bay. My first bylines appeared in the East Bay Review of the Performing Arts. I next worked as a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian while studying at UC Berkeley, where I obtained a master's in journalism. I was a reporter at the Contra Costa Independent, Berkeley Gazette and San Francisco Examiner before moving to the Chronicle, where I worked several years in the Berkeley bureau and in the main East Bay bureau in Oakland.
Donors gave dozens of new, unopened toys to the Albany Peace Officers Association inaugural Toy Drive today in front Target. The toys were collected for Shriners Hospital for Children.
A UC Berkeley assistant manager died in a bicycle crash on the Ohlone Greenway Friday when he swerved to avoid a skateboarder, according witness and official accounts.
A UC Berkeley assistant manager died in a bicycle crash on the Ohlone Greenway Friday when he swerved to avoid a skateboarder, according witness and official accounts.
AC Transit has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing drivers and mechanics, forestalling a strike that could have occurred at the end of 60-day cooling-off period on Sunday at midnight.
AC Transit has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing drivers and mechanics, forestalling a strike that could have occurred at the end of 60-day cooling-off period on Sunday at midnight.
A 19-year-old female suffered minor injuries on Saturday when she was punched in the face by an armed robber near UC Berkeley. It was one of at least seven robberies in the campus area last week where victims were assaulted.
A 19-year-old female suffered minor injuries on Saturday when she was punched in the face by an armed robber near UC Berkeley. It was one of at least seven robberies in the campus area last week where victims were assaulted.
You can donate new, unopened toys – plus books and clothes – for children in need at the Target in Albany tomorrow, Saturday for the Albany Peace Officers' Association Toy Drive.
You should never drink and drive, especially tonight, Dec. 20, when several police agencies around the Bay Area will have DUI checkpoints.
You should never drink and drive, especially tonight, Dec. 20, when several police agencies around the Bay Area will have DUI checkpoints.
The Albany school board agreed Thursday night to venture $720,000 on architectural plans in hopes of winning state funds to rebuild Marin Elementary School but held back on approving a similar plan for Ocean View Elementary.
The Albany school board agreed on Thursday night to using recycled shipping containers to replace soon-to-be-demolished MacGregor High School, if voters next June approve using revenue from a 2008 bond for the community pool.
Victims suffered minor injuries in at least six robberies this past week in areas near the UC Berkeley campus.
Here are Berkeley Patch articles on the surge in robberies in Berkeley.
Alameda County fire officials say one in six Christmas tree fires are caused by a heat source near the tree, and that one in 40 such fires results in death.
Alameda County fire officials say one in six Christmas tree fires are caused by a heat source near the tree, and that one in 40 such fires results in death.
A man was struck and robbed at gunpoint on Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley about 6:10 a.m. Saturday, according the University of California at Berkeley police.
A female UC Berkeley student suffered minor injuries early Sunday morning when she was forced to the ground in a robbery attempt on campus, according to UC Berkeley police.
The Albany police logs for Dec. 9-10 include a burglar taking wallet while the resident was home upstairs, another burglar who used a key to enter a rear door and steal jewelry, a CVS shoplifter confronted and a dog bite at Solano and Pomona.
The winds have picked up and blown away enough of the lingering pollution that Bay Area air quality officials have lifted the wood-burning ban after an unprecedented 11 straight days of Spare the Air alerts.
