Views by the Bay

Hayward Park is one of CalTrain's least-trafficked stations. It was morning on a Spare-the-Air (smog alert, free mass transit) day. I w...

Vaillancourt Fountain in July. The water's off in August. On Friday the balconies were closed. It was Barry Bonds Day at Justin Herman P...

It wasn’t that long ago that we would sit at home by the telephone to wait for a call [pause to think “pathetic loser” if you must, then per...

Do you know the words to On Top of Old Smokey ? It’s been decades since I last sang it, and my memory of the lyrics is mashed with spoof ver...

Bette Midler removed over 230 trees from her Kauai property without permission. State conservation workers noticed Oct. 17 that Midler's...

Last year Mark McGoldrick made $70 million running the special-situations group at Goldman Sachs. He earned about a thousand times—give or t...

If you keep bailing your kid out of trouble, will he ever learn to stand on his own? And will he engage in ever-riskier behavior, knowing th...

The Hayward-San Mateo Bridge.

As Barry Bonds marches through the Boeing product line (737, 747, 757, etc.), as oceans of ink and exabytes of electrons are devoted to his...

After visits to the Monterey Bay Aquarium I want some good, cheap food, an eatery distant from downtown Monterey and the Wharf. Tarpy’s Road...

In the wake of the wild swings in the financial markets, it’s time to dust off an oldie: Q. How do you make a million dollars in the bond ma...

No, I haven’t gotten around to fixing my trusty Beetle , thanks for asking. But I’d better do it soon lest one of my neighbors is inspired b...

I admire Barack Obama , although I disagree with many of his policy positions. His humble-beginnings life story, his communication abilities...

Bill Walsh has died . He didn’t fit the traditional stereotype of a cigar-chomping larger-than-life extrovert, perhaps the reason no NFL clu...

The weekend Wall Street Journal interviews (link requires registration) Charles Schwab. We’ve had brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab ...