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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 Moraga School District announced a $2.85 million settlement with Kristen Cunnane, a UC Berkeley assistant swim coach who suffered abuse in the 1990s at Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School.
A UC Berkeley graduate student faces up to 12 years in prison after pleading no contest to vehicular manslaughter while drunk in Berkeley a year ago when he crashed a car, causing the death of his girlfriend and her son.
The Albany Library is holding its big book sale of the year this coming weekend and is looking for volunteers to help out.
The Albany police log for May 8-9 includes a panhandler who entered a cafe and spit on someone and was scaring passers-by, arrests for domestic violence and theft, and thefts of a scooter, bicycle, tricycle and vacuum.
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UC Berkeley police on Monday issued a description of the suspected shooter in the early Sunday morning slaying of a 21-year-old Fremont man off Grizzly Peak Boulevard above the UC campus.
UC Berkeley police on Monday issued a description of the suspected shooter in the early Sunday morning slaying of a 21-year-old Fremont man off Grizzly Peak Boulevard above the UC campus.
Early this morning, Monday, UC Berkeley police evicted the urban-farm activists who on Saturday occupied a UC-owned lot next to University Village in Albany. One person was arrested for failing to comply with police instructions.
UC Berkeley police are investigating the death of a man who was found fatally shot next to his car off Grizzly Peak Boulevard above the UC Berkeley campus early Sunday.
The Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board has given its blessings to a restaurant serving upscale Russian peasant/worker food, a performance stage and a retail space in the long-closed Cody's bookstore on Telegraph Avenue.
A one-alarm fire damaged a home near Indian Rock in North Berkeley Sunday afternoon. No injuries were reported.
The urban-farm activists from Occupy the Farm who occupied a UC-owned plot next to University Village in Albany on Saturday continued with their planting of crops and 24-hour camp on Sunday afternoon. UC police kept watch.
The urban-farm activists from Occupy the Farm who occupied a UC-owned plot next to University Village in Albany on Saturday continued with their planting of crops and 24-hour camp on Sunday afternoon. UC police kept watch.
Police in a dozen cruisers from Albany and Berkeley converged on Golden Gate Fields with helicopter support Saturday morning, drew guns in a half-hour standoff and arrested a former racetrack employee who brandished a replica gun.
Occupy the Farm activists, who occupied a crop field at the UC-owned Gill Tract last year, moved to another, nearby UC plot Saturday and began planting crops. UC police warned them they could be arrested for trespassing.
Occupy the Farm activists, who occupied a crop field at the UC-owned Gill Tract last year, moved to another, nearby UC plot Saturday and began planting crops. UC police warned them they could be arrested for trespassing.
With an expected occupation Saturday afternoon, May 11, of UC-owned property at or next to the Gill Tract in Albany by Occupy the Farm activists, UC Berkeley released an aerial photo to clarify what it termed "misinformation" about the tract.
We offer special thanks to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley for allowing us to publish its image of a Thomas Hill painting depicting the "golden spike" completion of the transcontinental railroad on this date, May 10, in 1869.
