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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.
A suspected burglar was spotted by a returning UC Berkeley student and her male companion as they returned to a University Village apartment that was burglarized twice this past weekend, UC police said Monday.
The 85-year-old UC Berkeley grad and former Berkeley teacher detained by North Korea, Merrill Newman, secretly trained anti-Communist guerrillas to fight behind enemy lines in the Korean War, according to news reports.
Bay Area officials of the U.S. Postal Service are seeking volunteers for their 101-year-old program in which citizen volunteers and postal employees respond to children's letters to Santa Claus.
The Albany police log for Nov. 22 includes cash stolen from the register at Grazzy Burgers, vandalism of the city's new homeless shelter on its opening day, power lines and tree limbs downed by high winds and a son's bicycle stolen.
The Bay Area can say goodbye to the warm weather we've been having and hello to a sharp drop in temperatures for several days beginning Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. Expect overnight lows in the 30s.
Bay Area officials of the U.S. Postal Service are seeking volunteers for their 101-year-old program in which citizen volunteers and postal employees respond to children's letters to Santa Claus.
The Bay Area can say goodbye to the warm weather we've been having and hello to a sharp drop in temperatures for several days beginning Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. Expect overnight lows in the 30s.
Bay Area officials of the U.S. Postal Service are seeking volunteers for their 101-year-old program in which citizen volunteers and postal employees respond to children's letters to Santa Claus.
The history of the artworks on the Albany Bulb was related in an "Art Tour" Saturday by one of the primary artists, Osha Neumann, who's also a Berkeley-based attorney. The tour was organized by opponents of the planned Albany Bulb eviction.
The history of the artworks on the Albany Bulb was related in an "Art Tour" Saturday by one of the primary artists, Osha Neumann. The tour was part of a four-day "Resistance Festival" by opponents of the city's planned eviction of Bulb dwellers.
The Albany police logs for Nov. 20-21 include a home ransacked in a burglary, a vehicle swerving at a bicyclist, a $1,100 Apple store purchase from ID theft, thefts at CVS and a dry cleaners, and a stolen vehicle and a stolen bicycle.
The UC Berkeley Bears will play the Oregon Ducks next October in the first college football game in the San Francisco 49ers' new $1.2-billion Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, according to Cal and stadium officials.
The UC Berkeley Bears will play the Oregon Ducks next October in the first college football game in the San Francisco 49ers' new $1.2-billion Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, according to Cal and stadium officials.
The Albany police logs for Nov. 18-19 include six people arrested on various charges, a stoned student at Albany High, a female senior citizen told to send money to get a purported relative out of jail and wallets stolen at Target and BevMo.
The soon-to-open Artis Coffee in Berkeley's Fourth Street shopping district will be the first coffee outlet in America to offer beans custom-roasted on the spot, its founders say.
The soon-to-open Artis Coffee in Berkeley's Fourth Street shopping district will be the first coffee outlet in America to offer beans custom-roasted on the spot, its founders say.
It's the fourth alert this week, triggered by a large volume of particulates in the air caused by relatively cool, windless weather.
It's the fourth alert this week, triggered by a large volume of particulates in the air caused by relatively cool, windless weather.
It's the fourth alert this week, triggered by a large volume of particulates in the air caused by relatively cool, windless weather.
It's the fourth alert this week, triggered by a large volume of particulates in the air caused by relatively cool, windless weather.