Views by the Bay

Bay Area weather forecasters expect March to come in like a lion : [bold added] Sacramentans are grappling with graupel Winter’s bigg...

This week all 15 beds at the church are filled. The fall-off in demand for temporary shelter one year ago proved to be a short-lived pheno...

It's been a wild 31 days; the stock market averages dropped 10% in two weeks, then bounced back the following two weeks to nearly recove...

Twitter's Top 100 ideas on What to Give Up for Lent Fasting may be good for the soul and body, but some strict observers of Lent be...

Tony Hicks (SJ Mercury photo) During the Bay Area's affordable-housing crisis I have become acquainted with small landlords who have...

On the far left side, next to the restrooms, of the neighborhood Lucky Store is the resting place for items that are destined for the scav...

(Image from blog.gaijinpot.com ) In decades past your humble blogger flew frequently to Japan, and one of the top-five pleasures (after ...

(Image from All Uganda news) To Americans over fifty Billy Graham was the evangelist. Not a priest or bishop, he didn't need silk r...

The Tax Cut and Jobs Act reduces taxes for most individuals and businesses, but it is not a tax simplification act. One of the most benefi...

A tweet from the current President about someone who could succeed him: Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey, who at one point I kne...

Fergie's rendition of the National Anthem at the NBA All-Star game has been so roundly criticized that I was hesitant to watch it after...

Guns are big and scary-looking to us in the Bay Area ( BYU ) Gun-confiscation and banishment advocates---I meet them every day in the Ba...

An example of a link I did NOT click on. Some of the Facebook contacts in my demographic--baby boomer, college-educated--post all the ti...

The hedge, 2 years later The drain line from the kitchen to the sewer was backed up yet again (previous blockages were in 2014 and 2016...

Another school shooting (17 dead so far) has ruined this Valentine's Day. The usual questions arise: how did the gunman get his weapon...