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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 big police search in El Cerrito Tuesday morning that saw about 18-20 officers, including the Siskiyou County Sheriff, was apparently tied to the theft of a historic gold display worth more than $1.25 million from the Siskiyou County Courthouse.
The Albany Planning & Zoning Commission voted unanimously Thursday night to approve AT&T cell phone antennas on a San Pablo Avenue office building. The company has been seeking approval of the antennas since 2008.
Three people signed up by the Thursday deadline to apply for the vacant seat on Kensington's governing board. The board will decide whom to pick. The seat was vacated Dec. 13 when board member Mari Metcalf suddenly resigned.
About 18-20 law enforcement officers, including the sheriff of Siskiyou County, converged on a home in El Cerrito Tuesday morning to serve a search warrant. So far, they're keeping mum, saying they don't want to endanger their investigation.
Albany High School is seriously considering a later daily start time, changing from the current 7:40 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Principal Ted Barone says studies indicate a later start time could give teens more sleep and improved academic performance.
Legislative representatives of Alameda – U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, state Senator Loni Hancock and Assemblyman Rob Bonta – joined other East Bay legislators in voicing support for President Obama's proposals Wednesday.
Berkeley's legislative representatives – U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, state Senator Loni Hancock and Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner – joined other East Bay legislators in voicing support for President Obama's proposals Wednesday.
Saying flame retardants in plastic wall insulation pose a health hazard, state Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner introduced a bill Monday that would express the state Legislature's intent to enact laws reducing use of the retardants.
Two suspected burglars, a man and a woman from Richmond, were arrested by El Cerrito police at an El Cerrito home Sunday morning following a witness report. The woman was wearing jewelry taken from the home, police said.
With two colleagues, Frank Davis developed a breakthrough biological method for delivering drugs into the body that has helped millions of people. Davis, now 92 and a resident of El Cerrito, has been named UC Berkeley's Alumnus of the Year.
With two colleagues, Frank Davis developed a breakthrough biological method for delivering drugs into the body that has helped millions of people. Davis, now 92 and a resident of El Cerrito, has been named UC Berkeley's Alumnus of the Year.
After its previous cell phone antenna application was rebuffed by the City of Albany, and after suing the city over the issue in a case still pending, AT&T has filed a new antennas application to be considered by the Planning & Zoning Commissi
The El Cerrito Public Works Department is hosting a public meeting Thursday to discuss its plans for crosswalk alterations on two Arlington Boulevard crosswalks near Madera Elementary School. Traffic circulation also will be discussed.
A little-known but profoundly influential woman from a thousand years ago is about to become better known, thanks to East Bay author Patricia Bracewell, who delved into UC archives for some of the extensive research for her first published novel.
Following a 10-year-old Kensington girl being hit in a Colusa Avenue crosswalk near Colusa Circle in October, the Kensington Hilltop Elementary School PTA installed crosswalk flags at several locations around the circle Sunday.
An Albany fire engine and fire truck, accompanied by two police cars that closed off the street, rushed to a house on Stannage Avenue Friday, only to find that the smoke pouring from a house was coming from the chimney and a robust fire in the home
Members of the Albany High School Amnesty International Club wore orange prisoner suits and black hoods in a Friday afternoon protest on busy Solano Avenue. They called for the closure of the U.S. prisoner-of-war camp at Guantanamo Bay.
Abdullah Morales, 19 of San Pablo, was sentenced to 27 years in prison Friday for his role at age 16 in the brutal gang rape of 16-year-old girl. Morales, who pled guilty, is the second of six defendants in to be sentenced.
A dispute over cities sharing power in Alameda County sharpened this week when the Piedmont City Council voted against a recommendation to give larger cities extra votes in a proposed multi-city "Energy Council" for the county.
The City of El Cerrito and the state Department of Finance, which faced off in court over El Cerrito's refusal to pay a $1.76 million state-mandated bill, offered responses Wednesday to the court settlement that ended the dispute in the city's
