Views by the Bay

WSJ: At night, the Chongqing skyline illuminates with neon lights, reminiscent of the film “Blade Runner” /td> I thought I was done with...

Football Hall-of-Famer Norm Van Brocklin (1926-1983) had retired as a player and was a coach for the Vikings and Falcolns when i began fol...

My high school classmates Pam and Ina invited us to a small reunion of fellow graduates, most of whom I have known since sixth grade. Traffi...

Pulmonary embolism (Cavallini/Science Source/WSJ) I had been feeling pretty chipper until the beginning of September. As the month proceede...

Five years ago we awoke to an orange sky: : distant wildfire smoke, cool fog, and still air combined to turn the sky orange. It was so dark ...

We've talked about how bad the stagflation was during the late '70's and early '80's, but don't take it from me. He...

When we celebrated our golden anniversary last month, the status of our finances was the furthest thing from our mind, just as they were w...

(Renault/Zuma/WSJ photo) Note: I wish to remind my smattering of readers that I never voted for President Trump (or his opponents) in any ...

2021: A litter of 7 coyote pups in Golden Gate Park (SF Gate) As we have posted before , coyotes have become ubiquitous in the Bay Area. ...

(Photo from crosswalk ) Today's Old Testament lesson includes the verse: "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician ther...

Our under-the-sink filter Although environmentalists have been warning about the dangers of microplastics for over two decades, there is no...

(Photo by Tama/Getty/WSJ) California is first in the nation in categories good and bad (e.g., wealth, business startups, agriculture, home...

Solar panels over 115-foot-wide canal in Hickman, CA (SFGate) Three years ago we posted about a creative concept for green energy product...

Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand on the set of 1973's The Way We Were ( Rolling Stone ) The first time I saw a Robert Redford movi...

TSLA has risen substantially since Elon Musk returned. Next stop: the all-time high of $488.54 Tesla's stock price rose 3.6% to $410.04...