Gabriel Greschler is the Santa Clara County and Milpitas reporter for The Mercury News. He previously worked as a staff writer for J. The Jewish News of Northern California and as an on-call interactive producer for KQED. He grew up in Boston, moved to Seattle when he was 10 and then attended the University of San Francisco with a major in politics and a minor in journalism. Gabriel is passionate about local news (he hosts a podcast on the subject), trying new restaurants out and escaping the San Francisco fog.