• Dixie Jordan, Patch Staff Verified Patch Staff Badge

  • Piedmont, CA

I started with Patch as the copy editor for 11 Patch sites: Alameda, Albany, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Hercules, Newark, Piedmont, Pinole, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Union City. Currently I am the local editor at Piedmont Patch and Alameda Patch. Questions? dixie.jordan@patch.com.

Before coming to Patch, I was the editor and publisher of Parents Press, a magazine for Bay Area parents, for more years than I like to remember. Before that, I was news editor at the Contra Costa Times and a reporter at various Northern California newspapers. 

I am a fifth generation Californian who has lived in the East Bay most of my life and a graduate of UC Berkeley. For fun, I volunteer on archaeology digs, mostly in Ireland and the Southwest.

My brilliant and beautiful daughter, Jenny, a school psychologist, just married the charming Chris Davidson and they are living in Austin, Texas — too far way!

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Alameda, CA|News|

Another Tilden Park Quake & Aftershocks Rattle East Bay

Did it wake you up? Another earthquake centered in Tilden Park near Berkeley, with a preliminary magnitude of 3.2, struck at 1:07 a.m. this morning, Tuesday, followed by aftershocks of 2.7 and 2.6, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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Another Tilden Park Quake & Aftershocks Rattle East Bay
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Another Tilden Park Quake & Aftershocks Rattle East Bay

Did it wake you up? Another earthquake centered in Tilden Park near Berkeley, with a preliminary magnitude of 3.2, struck at 1:07 a.m. this morning, Tuesday, followed by aftershocks of 2.7 and 2.6, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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Another Tilden Park Quake & Aftershocks Rattle East Bay
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How Piedmont Planners Saved Civilization

Tucked into a staff report for the Oct. 14 Planning Commission meeting is a fascinating glimpse of how a single word — in this case, "primarily" — has let Piedmont gracefully sidestep zoning fights over massage parlors and marijuana dispensaries.

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