Views by the Bay

Eating healthily and exercising regularly are resolutions on many a New Year's list. One that I forgot to add is getting at least six ho...

We arrived for the 9 AM Apple shareholders' meeting at 8:45, but already we were too late to get into the main auditorium. The young gui...

Megan McArdle on two categories of people: Let’s be honest: [parents] are your emergency fund. If you get sick, they’ll take you in and car...

John Eaton fixes a toaster oven in Palo Alto ( SJMN ) The Bay Area, a center of technological innovation, is also one of the leaders in...

February 17, 2013 Infant baptism has been performed for over a thousand years. Not all Christian denominations subscribe to the traditi...

Mercury News photo This story seems ordinary: the mother of a convicted felon lies to the police about a gun in her son's possession...

We reflected briefly on Obamacare's costly disincentive for small employers to expand beyond 49 "full-time equivalent" workers...

We visit the California Academy of Sciences a couple of times each year and always spend a few minutes watching Claude . The albino allig...

1987: Slim and Sleek ( Sfgate photos ) 2012: the spandex would be even more uncomfortable Initially hesitant, I became a faithful vi...

Economists Alex Tabarrok and Eric Helland looked at whether generous liability laws encouraged dangerous behavior by general aviation (small...

The allergies that have afflicted your humble observer all his life may have had a beneficial side effect : A new study......found that pe...

After the morning service we were in the office counting the offering when the conversation turned to Andy's nephew. It wasn't that ...

In Valentine's Day news you might have missed, "the happier your marriage, the more likely it is that you will gain weight" . ...

Meteor over Chelyabinsk ( LA Times photo ) ...of our place in it. A 10-metric-ton (11 U.S. standard tons) meteorite exploded 18-30 mil...

Valentine's Day has been co-opted by the female of the species. Candy, flowers, white tablecloth dinners, meaningful conversation-...