jimw@patch.com
415.948.8919
San Francisco, CA
Bio: Born and raised in Philadelphia. Went to journalism school at Syracuse University, where I met the love of my life and learned the craft. Moved to the Bay Area nearly 15 years ago with several high school friends with open-ended plans to start careers and dig deeply into the incredible beauty and culture of the Bay Area. Not leaving. I love where I grew up and am always thrilled to go back, but my roots are here now, and they are deep. I love music, basketball, food, travel, and laughing as often as possible. We had a daughter this year, and I am over the moon.
Professionally, it's been a little bit of everything over the years, from doe-eyed sports reporter to music editor to newspaper and online reporter of many stripes. It's simple, really: whether it's the high school phenom or the 85-year-old who can still throw verbal haymakers with the best of them, I love telling people's stories.
Politics
I'm a registered Democrat who believes in fiscal conservatism unless you're dealt a ridiculously bad hand and have to spend your way out. I believe we're all created equal and should be treated as such. Pragmatic empathy is possible, and government is a much-needed, if often mismanaged, force for good in the world.
Religion
I was raised Roman Catholic in a comically large Irish Catholic family. I've drifted from the church quite a bit since then for a number of reasons, but I still hold dear the people and values that were a part of that upbringing.
Local Hot-Button Issues
After a rough economic stretch for downtown business, Mill Valley is in the midst of a push to stimulate downtown business. That effort must be willing to innovate but also strike a balance between promoting downtown business and retaining the town's inimitable character.
The city must remain vigilant on issues of emergency preparedness, vegetation management and evacuation planning. Despite an improving real estate market, the city should strive for a more affordable housing market.
With its Miller Avenue Streetscape plan and all of its road projects, the city should try to promote alternative forms of transit throughout town.
Saying there's "something encouraging about finding culture in small-town America," magazine puts our town among the best in America with fewer than 25,000 people.
Owner of 29 Miller Ave. hires an attorney and gets City Council to delay appeal hearing to its May 7 meeting.
Help us celebrate the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge - dubbed "America's Parthenon" by author John Van Der Zee - with a selection of photos from ace local photographer Kirke Wrench. And upload your own!
Longtime Mill Valley hardware store hopes local community backs its efforts to spur Tam Valley landowner to find another alternative tenant to proposed chain.
Before taking on the Philadelphia Phillies, Giants will hold moment of silence for victims, including residents of Larkspur, Tiburon and Belvedere.
From El Paseo's house of chops to Buckeye's slate of prime cuts and a few in between, the 94941 is the place for steak. So who serves up the best?
Although the item getting the most attention could be postponed to May, the City Council has plenty of important business to tend to at its April 16 meeting.
With much of Mill Valley out of town on spring break, it was a wild week. From a drive-by shooting on Evergreen and the bomb squad being called to a local nonprofit to controversy over Subway downtown and OSH in Tam Valley, it was a busy week. Here are th
Between 8 p.m. to noon each weekday and from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. on weekends, drivers may experience delays on northbound Doyle Drive, project organizers said this week. Check out these photos of the Presidio Parkway and upload your own.
Three-year-old Miller Avenue shop garners nearly two-thirds of votes cast and a number of positive reviews in a tight battle with Studio Velo.
With mounting online campaign against Subway’s move into downtown Mill Valley, the owner of the space the sandwich chain seeks to occupy gets an attorney and hopes to postpone hearing to May 7.
Witnesses say a man on a black motorcycle fired multiple shots at a parked white pickup truck Friday morning near Evergreen and Ethel avenues. The two victims inside the truck sustained minor injuries.
Suspicious package mailed to Resource Renewal Institute on East Blithedale is determined to be safe but police are investigating its origin.
This week's roundup of police activities includes a few complaints about music in the Depot Plaza, 15 missing lemons and a real estate agent accused of digging up some plants after a 'heated discussion.'
Olivia Rudd's "Breaking Wave" garners top poem award in the California Coastal Commission's annual California Coastal Art & Poetry Contest; seven other Marin students nab honorable mentions.
Local hardware- and garden-oriented businesses look to fight Orchard Supply Hardware’s move to Tam Valley and sure up their own customer bases in the process.
'Hips, Implants & Left Knees' wins inaugural event, which also features honorees for Best Limp, Most Artificial Parts, Best Scar, Most Meds, Most Operations and Least Stoic.
Residents appear divided between those who want to fight for a grocery store in the former DeLano’s space and those who are content to have Orchard Supply Hardware revive the long-vacant space.
Trio of planning-oriented events at library kick of Thursday with Ed Davenport of Pepperdine’s Davenport Institute.
After a witness reported seeing the man suspected of robbing three Marin banks in late March, Sheriff’s deputies and CHP officers arrest a 23-year-old San Francisco man at the Tamalpais Motel.
