Views by the Bay

In contrast to the sparse attendance of last year , this year's Pentecost was a well-attended, joyous affair. Half the congregation wa...

I missed this new term in personal finance: loud budgeting . Lukas Battle (Instagram) Loud budgeting began as a joke, said Lukas Battle,...

Free shredding last Saturday More than half of the companies (financial, telecommunications, medical) that I deal with have experienced dat...

Nvidia's Santa Clara HQ ( NY Post ) Homegrown $2.3 trillion-dollar tech giant Nvidia gives a much needed shot in the arm to the Bay Ar...

Once upon a time, kids, I highly valued a CSAA membership because of its maps. After reading about all the difficulties that California ho...

If an extinction-level asteroid headed towards earth, politics would be set aside. If it meant that the U.S. and China had to share their mo...

2021: Oakland food hall (Chron/Getty) One of the underpinnings of the urban lifestyle is at war with urban culture's aspirations. Head...

It's Mother's Day, but today we were moved by this father's love for his child and how it turned out 16 years later. Today in 2...

(Image from Etsy) In many families the Bank of Mom and Dad (or Grandma and Grandpa) start as the lenders of last resort. As the borrower...

"Lake" Oroville on July 22, 2021 (Chronicle photo) In 2017 the Oroville dam was in danger of breaching, and downstream communitie...

In the age of social influencing, quick first takes, and harvesting of clicks, the crowds swarm over topics important and trivial, then move...

California Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero One never knows until the ruling is issued, but so far the California Supreme Court appears relu...

Last year the EDD lost $20-$33 billion because of fraud. On specific categories (income, property, sales, gas) California may not be the h...

The Berkshire Hathaway shareholders' meeting in Omaha last Saturday . Apple stock has been Berkshire Hathaway's largest and most su...