I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Los Altos. What else do you think L.A. Chung stands for?
My first Los Altos event was walking in the Pet Parade in 1962 with my Collie, Laddie. We all went down to the pancake breakfast at Rancho after that. I remember riding my bicycle on Interstate 280 the day before it opened to the public and passing under it to ride up to Maryknoll, before it was a retirement home for priests.
My elementary school was close enough to walk to, and is now Grant Park and community center. I learned how to swim at Los Altos Covington Pool and Los Altos High School in the summers. I learned to ride from Herman Koopmans, following him from Los Altos Hills to Portola Valley.
I've been in journalism since 1980, when I participated in the Maynard Institute's Summer Program for Minority Journalists. I've been a reporter for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut and the San Francisco Chronicle. During a 12-year career at the San Jose Mercury News, I was an editor supervising reporters in community news, weekend breaking news and business. I had a column through which I wrote about local events, the travails of ordinary people fighting City Hall, and the intersection of race, culture and public policy.
Since leaving the Mercury News, I've worked on the Chauncey Bailey Project, the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism and done research Hewlett Foundation projects.
In the old days, once I told people my name, I'd have to quickly add— "No relation to Connie." But no one knows who she is, anymore.
My Beliefs
Always say "Please" and "Thank you." It goes a long way toward making life more civil. Play nicely. Stand your ground if you believe you're right. Admit when you're wrong.
Politics
I believe in sanity, and in public officials striving to do the right thing for the greater good.
I vote in each and every election, and have, at different times in my life, been registered as a Democrat, Independent and Republican.
Religion
My mother raised me at the Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church. It's the closest thing to "my" church, even if I don't attend.
Local Hot-Button Issues
Los Altos elementary schools are the top in the state. But maintaining school standards during a very sluggish economic recovery period, with limited and unreliable state funds, will be difficult this year and in the coming years. It will require the school community to reach out to the broader community and make the case for donations and perhaps taxes.
Downtown economic vitality is a deep concern.
The area all around the San Antonio Road and El Camino Real has been experiencing housing growth, and it may be time to consider a neighborhood school where that growth is, the Los Altos City Council said.
An elderly woman was rightly skeptical that two callers from the FBI and the Los Altos Police actually would be contacting her about a Publisher's Clearing House prize.
An elderly woman was rightly skeptical that two callers from the FBI and the Los Altos Police actually would be contacting her about a Publisher's Clearing House prize.
The Los Altos Police log for March 13 showed two arrests, one on a warrant and another for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The Los Altos-based conservation organization dedicated to the conservation of the redwood forest and habitat, expands its board of directors.
Mansi Bhatia didn't know the first thing about photography a little more than a year ago, but starting with just her iPhone and Instagram she stumbled onto an emerging art form.
Are you an early riser? Los Altos residents will have two minutes today to see the International Space Station on its orbit around the Earth.
Are you an early riser? Step outside with the binoculars. You may have a chance to see the International Space Station on its orbit around the Earth.
Los Altos Police had an interesting day on March 12, from the mystery backpack containing paraphernalia to a patron at Boulanger making a citizen's arrest when she discovered someone took money and gift cards from her purse.
The choice of Argentine Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, first Jesuit and first Latin American pontiff, resonates with the faithful in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills.
On Wednesday, Bay Area women are spearheading national efforts to lobby lawmakers and change attitudes about gun laws and gun violence.
We'll follow along as 200 mothers fan out through Capitol Hill to lobby for 'commonsense' gun laws on Wednesday.
On Wednesday women from Menlo Park and Atherton are spearheading national efforts to lobby lawmakers and change attitudes about gun laws and gun violence.
On Wednesday Bay Area women spearhead national efforts to lobby lawmakers and change attitudes about gun laws and gun violence.
Today, Palo Alto women are spearheading a national effort to lobby lawmakers and change attitudes about gun laws and gun violence.
Despite the use of 911, phantom turkeys give police the slip, thefts from unlocked cars continue, and a gas leaf blower user gets a reprimand, all in the March 11 log of the Los Altos Police.
On Wednesday Bay Area women are spearheading national efforts to lobby lawmakers and change attitudes about gun laws and gun violence.
With the help of Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto residents, the Greater San Antonio Community Association hopes to convince the Mountain View City Council to postpone construction until the Precise Plan is completed.
The Los Altos Police log over the weekend shows petty thefts across the city, a couple of DUI arrests, and another tow at Foothill Crossing—just to keep you on your toes.
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