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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.
The Berkeley Police Association, the bargaining unit representing Berkeley police officers, reaffirmed its call for Tasers today, Wednesday, following an incident last week when a knife-wielding man nearly killed himself.
Carl Haber, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory responsible for groundbreaking work in restoring some of the earliest known sound recordings, is one of 24 winners of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships.
The latest FBI yearly crime report shows a rise in serious property crimes in Albany. The report also shows data for police staffing. In the map below, click on any East Bay community to see its number and ratio of police officers.
The latest FBI yearly crime report for U.S. communities shows a rise in serious crime in Berkeley. The report also shows data for police staffing. In the map below, click on any East Bay community to see its number and ratio of police officers.
The Albany police logs for Sept. 16-17 include two arrests linked to alleged stealing at Target, a warning about having a fire at the Albany Bulb, a stolen bicycle, more reports of people taking recyclables and a dispute over loud music on Portland.
A UC Berkeley graduate, Elaine Dang of San Diego, was among the many injured in the deadly terrorist attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, this past weekend. She posted on Twitter from her hospital bed that she is "OK" and "recovering."
Carl Haber, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory responsible for groundbreaking work in restoring some of the earliest known sound recordings, is one of 24 winners of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships.
Despite the rain last Saturday, the National Weather Service warns that several days of "critical fire danger" loom ahead for the East Bay hills because of strong winds, low humidity and dry conditions.
Despite the rain last Saturday, the National Weather Service warns that several days of "critical fire danger" loom ahead for the East Bay hills because of strong winds, low humidity and dry conditions.
This company takes an unusual approach to video advertising to gain customers and encourage discussion without using its name until the very end. It has two outlets in Berkeley – at Bancroft and Telegraph and at Gilman and San Pablo.
Recognize this? A sunbathing pool ball perhaps? (Hint: it's not Mars.) If you're first to tell us in the comments what this object is and where it can be found in Albany, you'll win a prize.
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Six Berkeley High students and one each from Maybeck High and Saint Mary's College High are in the approximately one percent of high school seniors named as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists this year.
Five Albany High students and one Saint Mary's College High student are in the approximately one percent of high school seniors named as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists this year.
This company takes an unusual approach to video advertising to gain customers and encourage discussion without using its name until the very end. Here's a hint: it has an outlet two blocks north of Albany and another two blocks south.
Several people were robbed at gunpoint while waiting at a carpool pickup point on Hudson Street near Claremont Avenue shortly after 9 a.m. this morning, Monday, police said. Three suspects were in custody this afternoon.
The UC Berkeley motto "Fiat Lux" – or "Let there be light" – has taken on new meaning with a precision-rotated mirror array on the campus' landmark Campanile. You can schedule a personally aimed beam of reflected sunlight online.
The clock is ticking down to the Oct. 10 deadline, when a 60-day cooling off period in the BART contract talks ends and another strike could occur. The two sides remain far apart as they prepare to return to the bargaining table today, Monday.
