I started my San Francisco news career in 1978 at KRON, Channel 4 then an NBC affiliate. That year, a charismatic San Francisco church leader, Jim Jones, convinced his exiled followers to drink cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid. 900 people (including 304 children) died in the jungles of Guyana. Nine days later, former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White, climbed through a window at City Hall and gunned down Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.

The two events would change the city forever. For me, it was the start of what turned out to be a 35-year-career of covering riots, fires, floods, earthquakes and epidemics. It spanned the gay rights movement and the AIDS crisis; the magic of Joe Montana and Bill Walsh and the disgrace of Canseco, McGwire and Bonds. It also included the birth and boom of Silicon Valley and the swelling number of people living in misery on the streets. For better and worse, it played out in front of me, giving me a front-row seat to the evolution of a city.

This website is a chance to revisit some of my most-memorable stories with the luxury of time. When available, I consulted original notes, scripts, airchecks and raw tapes. I also read other contemporaneous accounts to double-check my recollections. These are the most-honest accounts I could assemble.

While these are my stories, they would have never happened without the support of KGO Radio and the incredible people who worked there.