Gerry Shih covers government and politics for The Bay Citizen. He previously worked at The New York Times. He was born in Palo Alto, caused mischief at Henry Haight Elementary in Alameda and finagled an economics degree from Stanford, so he feels at home in the Bay Area -- even if he was mostly raised overseas and in the Midwest. Email: gerry_shih at baycitizen.org and on Twitter: @gerryshih