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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.
The Albany police logs for Aug. 26-27 include a vehicle fire, a student writing a Columbine "goal" at Albany Middle School, and a 911 call from someone who fell and couldn't move and whose location couldn't be traced because of a bad cell connection.
To help you plan ahead, here are special events and days off for Berkeley schools for the fall term.
To help you plan ahead, here are the special days off for Albany schools for the fall term.
Big laurels for Alameda County's website. It has been named as the best county government portal in the nation in the "Best of the Web" contest by Government Technology Magazine's Center for Digital Government.
Big laurels for Alameda County's website. It has been named as the best county government portal in the nation in the "Best of the Web" contest by Government Technology Magazine's Center for Digital Government.
A controversial array of 12 AT&T cell phone antennas proposed for the roof of Sunny Side Cafe on Solano Avenue in Albany won approval on a close 3-2 vote by the Albany City Council Tuesday night.
Police are seeking two men who robbed two victims at gunpoint in the 300 block of Pomona Avenue in El Cerrito about 2:40 p.m. Monday. The location is three blocks from the Albany border.
An 18-year-old female was robbed early Monday morning as she was walking near UC Berkeley at Piedmont Avenue and Dwight Way, according to UC Berkeley police.
After an emotional public hearing with more than three dozen speakers offering conflicting views on the Albany Bulb homeless, the City Council Tuesday night reaffirmed its decision to begin enforcing the city's no-camping law next month.
A group of about four dozen protesters, including homeless people living on Albany Bulb, marched to City Hall tonight, Tuesday, to express opposition at the City Council meeting to the city's plan to evict the Bulb homeless in October.
Marcus Semien, who played baseball at St. Mary's College High and UC Berkeley, makes his Major Leagues debut tonight, Tuesday, when he takes the field with the Chicago White Sox.
Marcus Semien, who played baseball at St. Mary's College High and UC Berkeley, makes his Major Leagues debut tonight, Tuesday, when he takes the field with the Chicago White Sox.
An Albany family says they were one of three vehicles tied for first to cross the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge when it opened to traffic about 10:15 p.m. Monday night. Their accompanying video shows them just behind the CHP escort.
An Albany family says they were one of three vehicles tied for first to cross the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge when it opened to traffic about 10:15 p.m. Monday night. Their accompanying video shows them just behind the CHP escort.
A female was accosted at gunpoint by a man in People's Park on Sunday night and raped, according to UC Berkeley police. Police are seeking the man, whom they said was acquainted with the victim.
AT&T has sued the City of Albany again over an application to install cell phone antennas. The new suit, filed last week, accuses the city of unreasonable delay in approving its application to put antennas on Sunny Side Cafe on Solano Avenue.
With an anticipated lawsuit by AT&T in the wings, the Albany City Council on Tuesday night will review the proposed AT&T cell phone antennas on the Sunny Side Cafe, which were approved by the Planning & Zoning Commission in June.
An illicit marijuana grow is "highly suspect" among the possible causes of the enormous Rim Fire that has burned 348 square miles in the Sierras and destroyed Berkeley's Tuolumne Camp, according to a fire official battling the flames.
An illicit marijuana grow is "highly suspect" among the possible causes of the enormous Rim Fire that has burned 348 square miles in the Sierras and destroyed Berkeley's Tuolumne Camp, according to a fire official battling the flames.
After being closed five days, the Bay Bridge reopened tonight, Monday, with traffic flowing by shortly after 10 p.m., hours ahead of schedule.
