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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 19-year-old Richmond man was arrested Wedsday night for investigation of drunken driving after he drove into the back of car on San Pablo Avenue near Fairmount Avenue in El Cerrito and pushed it into another car, police said.
The latest Academic Performance Index scores – released Thursday by state education officials – showed four schools in El Cerrito and Kensington improving from last year and two schools with lower scores. Portola posted the biggest increase.
Richmond is hosting its free 6th annual Home Front Festival, which celebrates the city's large role in the World War II "home front." The main activities will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, following a 1940s USO dance Friday night.
The president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, veteran law enforcement officer Ron Cottingham, says Prop 36, which would relax the state's "three strikes" law, is misguided and would undermine public safety.
UC Berkeley scientists report an alarming and dramatic increase in sudden oak death, saying it has reached epidemic proportions in some parts of the East Bay and Peninsula. Urgent preventative action is urged since infections can't be cured.
Berkeley City Councilman Jesse Arreguín wants to end the city's 72-hour limit on parking for Residential Parking Permit holders. He asked the City Council on Oct. 16 to refer the idea to the City Manager and Traffic Commission to draw up an ordinan
A UC Berkeley study of the nut-hiding habits of campus squirrels may offer lessons for human investing, such as diversification and how to remember where you put your savings, campus officials say.
Berkeley is gearing up for its first "Sunday Streets" block party on Oct. 14, when 16 blocks of four-lane Shattuck Avenue will be closed from downtown to the Gourmet Ghetto for music, strolling, skating, dancing and other street-party fun.
A 10-year-old Kensington girl was hit by a car while she in a crosswalk near Colusa Circle last week. The impact smashed the car windshield. The girl was taken by ambulance to a hospital. She appears not to have suffered serious injuries.
Berkeley is gearing up for its first "Sunday Streets" block party on Oct. 14, when 16 blocks of four-lane Shattuck Avenue will be closed from downtown to the Gourmet Ghetto for music, strolling, skating, dancing and other street-party fun.
The recall of products containing peanut butter and other nut butters sold by many retailers under many labels has more than doubled to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.
A UC Berkeley study of the nut-hiding habits of campus squirrels may offer lessons on diversification and how to remember where you put your savings.
The recall of products containing peanut butter and other nut butters sold by many retailers under many labels has more than doubled to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.
The recall of products containing peanut butter and other nut butters sold by many retailers under many labels has more than doubled to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.
It applies to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.
The recall of products containing peanut butter and other nut butters sold by many retailers under many labels has more than doubled to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.
The recall of products containing peanut butter and other nut butters sold by many retailers under many labels has more than doubled to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.
It applies to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.
A UC Berkeley study of the nut-hiding habits of campus squirrels may offer lessons for human investing, such as diversification and how to remember where you put your savings, campus officials say.
The recall of products containing peanut butter and other nut butters sold by many retailers under many labels has more than doubled to 240 products, with the FDA reporting a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness in 19 states.