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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.
A senior at the University of California at Berkeley writes in a Berkeleyside op-ed column about being mugged by unarmed assailants a block from her home and asks why a bystander two yards away didn't "step in or speak up."
The Albany police logs for Aug. 12-13 include a Safeway shoplifter, suspicious AT&T visitors, a female grabbed by the hair after she flipped off an unknown male who made a sexual remark, and a metal object falling from the BART tracks.
Sonny Dykes, the new coach tasked with pulling the University of California at Berkeley football team out of the doldrums, talks in this UC-produced video about his home life and his ideas for nurturing champion players.
Many Berkeley youth have been evacuated from camps near the 10,170-acre Rim Fire burning out of control east of Yosemite National Park.
Jessica Murray of Albany began a new chapter in her career as a educator this month, August 2013, as the principal of Saint Philip Neri Catholic School in Alameda.
Stanford linguist Dan Jurafsky, drawing in part on the theories of UC Berkeley emeritus professor of linguistics John Ohala, challenges the notion that a rose by any other name would smell be as sweet, saying names shape perception.
No owner has stepped forward, so the large black puppy found swimming in the middle of San Francisco Bay a week ago and brought home by a Berkeley man in his inflatable commute boat seems to have found a new home – with the man's family.
No owner has stepped forward, so the large black puppy found swimming in the middle of San Francisco Bay a week ago and brought home by a Berkeley man in his inflatable commute boat seems to have found a new home – with the man's family.
The latest "Academic Ranking of World Universities" finds the University of California at Berkeley in third place, a notch higher than last year, behind Harvard in first and Stanford second. Eight of the top 10 are in the United States.
The latest "Academic Ranking of World Universities" finds the University of California at Berkeley in third place, a notch higher than last year, behind Harvard in first and Stanford second. Eight of the top 10 are in the United States.
The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge was shimmed up this past weekend with temporary steel plates so that it can be ready for its scheduled Sept. 3 debut, bridge authorities said today, Monday.
The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge was shimmed up this past weekend with temporary steel plates so that it can be ready for its scheduled Sept. 3 debut, bridge authorities said today, Monday.
The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning of possible dry lightning and thunderstorms that could start fires in the dry East Bay hills.
The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning of possible dry lightning and thunderstorms that could start fires in the dry East Bay hills.
A multi-agency investigation of the limousine fire that killed five women on the San Mateo Bridge on May 4, 2013 found that the blaze was caused by a failure of the suspension system causing friction between the drive shaft and floorboard.
A multi-agency investigation of the limousine fire that killed five women on the San Mateo Bridge on May 4, 2013 found that the blaze was caused by a failure of the suspension system causing friction between the drive shaft and floorboard.
The Albany police logs for Aug. 10-11 include a stolen vehicle on Solano, drunk/discordly arrests of an 82-year-old man and 33-year-old woman, loud parties, loud BART work, loud pounding and a loud talker on the telephone.
Berkeley may still be the home of the hippies in the imagination of mainstream America, but it fell to 8th place in a recent ranking of "best U.S. cities for hippies," based on pot presence, tie-dye culture, hippie festivals and other factors.
Berkeley may still be the home of the hippies in the imagination of mainstream America, but it fell to 8th place in a recent ranking of "best U.S. cities for hippies," based on pot presence, tie-dye culture, hippie festivals and other factors.
All graduates of Berkeley High are invited to the attend the school's All-Class Reunion this coming weekend, the second time that Berkeley High has held such a combined class gathering. One main event is a picnic Saturday at San Pablo Park.
