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Now in my fourth year with Patch.com, I'm the editor of and Albany Patch and Berkeley Patch.
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.
When E.T. tries to call home, he may get a busy signal. There are tens of billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy that are potentially able to support life, according new findings by researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Hawaii.
When E.T. tries to call home, he may get a busy signal. There are tens of billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy that are potentially able to support life, according new findings by researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Hawaii.
Cue the spotlight. The famously reclusive original Bay Bridge troll, who recently retired from his well-hidden, 20-year perch beneath the soon-to-be demolished old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, will be on temporary exhibit at the Oakland Museum.
Two robberies were reported in Albany Sunday, one at gunpoint on Key Route Boulevard in the afternoon and the other in the early evening when a woman was pushed to the sidewalk on San Pablo Avenue. Albany had two other robberies the weekend before.
The temporary Albany homeless shelter that the city is providing for soon-to-be-dislocated Albany Bulb dwellers arrived in four parts today, Monday. It was placed next to Buchanan Street about 100 yards from the entrance to the Bulb.
When E.T. tries to call home, he may get a busy signal. There are tens of billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy that are potentially able to support life, according new findings by researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Hawaii.
When E.T. tries to call home, he may get a busy signal. There are tens of billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy that are potentially able to support life, according new findings by researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Hawaii.
In Berkeley's latest effort to create "just right" parking availability under its "goBerkeley" transportation reform, the city will begin offering one hour of free parking at the city-operated Telegraph Channing garage.
The Albany police logs for Oct. 26-27 include the nighttime robbery of a purse and wallet at Solano and Talbot, several DUI cases, a hit and run by a garbage truck, a vehicle that ran into a business and an arrest linked to a missing car and a crash.
Hoping to make Albany friendlier to housing developers and encourage transit-oriented development, city staff proposes a study group for a possible ballot measure to amend the city requirement of two parking spaces per new dwelling unit.
The Albany City Council on Monday will consider the proposed design for the $1-million first phase of the new Pierce Street Park, including the play structures, picnic area, landscaping, paving and bike racks.
In Berkeley's latest effort to create "just right" parking availability under its "goBerkeley" transportation reform, the city will begin offering one hour of free parking at the city-operated Telegraph Channing garage.
Bay Area fire officials urge residents to use today's switch from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time as an occasion to change the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.
Bay Area fire officials urge residents to use today's switch from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time as an occasion to change the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.
The two BART unions that staged short strikes in July and October over contract negotiations have approved the proposed new contracts, BART officials announced. The BART board is expected to vote on the agreement later this month.
The Albany police log for Oct. 25 includes an armed carjacking previously reported on Patch, arrests of two 18-year-olds on resisting an officer and possessing pot for sale (previously reported), four petty thefts and a spitting-in-face assault.
Daylight Saving Time goes back into hibernation on Sunday, Nov. 3. Don't forget to move your clocks back! (Remember, "fall back" and "spring ahead.")
Daylight Saving Time goes back into hibernation on Sunday, Nov. 3. Don't forget to move your clocks back! (Remember, "fall back" and "spring ahead.")
Daylight Saving Time goes back into hibernation on Sunday, Nov. 3. Don't forget to move your clocks back! (Remember, "fall back" and "spring ahead.")
Daylight Saving Time goes back into hibernation on Sunday, Nov. 3. Don't forget to move your clocks back! (Remember, "fall back" and "spring ahead.")