Views by the Bay

Even allowing for an increase in trick o'treaters from last year's thirty-four (34), the bulk bag of 120 wrapped candies should have...

The Grand Scheduler was kind this year. October 30th was our last Sandwiches on Sunday for 2016, and we would not be due to serve lunch at...

Stuck for hours on the streets of San Francisco ( SF Gate ) Friday morning's Bay Bridge big-rig crash was in the counter-commute (SF...

Lately I've been awaking in the middle of the night.... (Screen shot from GoComics )

A vibrant nightlife is a mark of a thriving city and brings in tourists, jobs, the arts, and restaurants. It also creates problems that inco...

Cat shelter built so strays would come back. (WSJ photo) Sometimes circumstances are sufficiently dire that one considers actions that r...

LinkedIn regularly e-mails a list of Bay Area jobs that its computer thinks---yes, I'm anthropomorphizing---I'm qualified to do. ...

Discussions often end up by calling the other side "Hitler" ( Godwin's Law ) Time columnist Joel Stein thinks that the dis...

Archbishop Charles Chaput The Philadelphia Archbishop's take on the election: [bold added] a friend describes the choice facing v...

Brandon S.: home is where the gearbox is ( SF Gate pic ) Factually correct, but misleading headline: South Bay techie says he saved $1...

(Image from BBC News) I plant myself at Starbucks a couple of times a week; this Hong Kong gentleman, however, is growing roots. Even Ty...

Eddie DeBartolo introduced Charles Haley at his 2015 HOF induction Local sports talk radio station KNBR interviewed Hall-of-Fame linebac...

Whenever prices rise rapidly in an important market (e.g., housing, medical care, gasoline) one may expect to hear a call for price controls...

New appliances...but $4,600 a month? We could not believe how much landlords were rumored to be charging, so at the beginning of summer ...

One of the strange aspects of this political season is that the economy, jobs, and government deficits are afterthoughts in the national con...