Views by the Bay

The Dow Jones, NASDAQ (red), and S&P 500 (green) have moved in sync. Half an hour after the opening bell, the markets are recovering sl...

A quote from last year, but I still find it funny. Should Mitt Romney join a 2008 race that included John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingri...

San Francisco attracts merchants the way the airline business lures swashbuckling investors. Ignoring mountains of historical evidence, the ...

From the 2/13/07 Tonight Show, Dennis Miller on global warming: Jay Leno: So what do you think of global warming? I probably know the answe...

….I leave a carbon footprint. If I eat vegetables, I remove a carbon-scrubbing organism from the ecosystem. If I eat meat, I encourage the p...

A year ago I snapped this photo. The view was the same this weekend. Yesterday the temperatures skied to the mid-70’s, capping the warmin...

Take a moment from your websurfin' and give a non-avatar someone a hug--and if you're lucky, a kiss. Contact is what makes us human,...

After the conference’s closing banquet we wandered down to Cedar Street . The outdoor stage was jammed with a younger crowd, undeterred by t...

On Tuesday we took a break from our meetings to play golf at the Wolfdancer Golf Club on the grounds of the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines resort...

Barack Obama has been accused of not being “black” enough. Because the senator is the son of immigrants and not a descendant of slaves, the ...

3:00 PM, Pacific Most everyone in the country is preparing to watch a certain football game that will kick off in half an hour. I’m at San ...

Bottoming Out Stock market bottoms are reached when years of decline, interrupted by dead-cat bounces that raise false hopes, cause even the...

When the Bishop visits your church, it used to be that everyone showed up and everyone dressed up. Last Sunday the former was true—attendanc...

I rushed out of the office to make the 6:14 PM “baby bullet” so that I would be home before seven, but it was all for naught. The problem wa...

Traffic was light on Sunday afternoon as we headed to the Sunset District, just south of Golden Gate Park. One of my wife’s favorite hairdre...