Views by the Bay

It looks gross, but I'm going to cut back on all this stuff during Lent.....really. We skipped last year but did go in 2015 . Pancak...

If Federal Government spending has increased so much over the past 40 years, why has its civilian workforce held steady at only two millio...

T he future Episcopal Church of the Bay Area has a South Asian look. The church used to host pancake suppers, but it's increasingly ...

(Photo from Business Insider ) Americans who say they work "24/7" (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) are exaggerating, of course,...

View from a $36 million penthouse (WSJ photo) We try to rationalize the irrational price of Bay Area real estate by pointing toward the ...

Nothing is wasted: vinegar is stored in used Sriracha bottles. While on an errand in Milpitas, we looked for a Chinese restaurant that w...

Receiving the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics ( Telegraph ) His passing hardly rated a mention in the nightly news, but Kenneth Arrow...

The Washington Post's new logo: "Democracy dies in darkness" California can be the Post-er child. Our great Progressive ...

Water pours from the drain from Highway 92 above. On a wet and wild President's Day the Bay Area experienced flash floods, power fai...

Making conversation after the morning service, I looked quizzically at a fellow parishioner when he asked, "Did you hear about the terr...

The deeper the blue, the safer the neighborhood Only two Bay Area cities were in the list of the top 100 safest cities in the United St...

Christmas and New Year's resulted in a surfeit of coffee-bean gifts. We're slowly grinding through the packages and enjoying taste...

Intending to tune in briefly to the President's press conference today, I listened to the very end. It was riveting. Policy issues---I ...

( Clipart image) There's a word for that condition : Misophonia , a disorder which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such ...

The sauna is out of kilter. The repairs were scheduled to be completed by Valentine's Day, but they look like it will take another wee...