Eric Shear

There are some statistics you force yourself to forget as soon as you hear them because the alternative is unbearable. This is one: Between...

David Wulf was days away from starting production on a new movie—a romantic comedy set on a farm—when he got a voicemail from a Teamsters representative.

It can show up in your mail one day: an administrative complaint from the Environmental Protection Agency. Maybe you cleared weeds on your property;...

There’s something quintessentially American about a lone man driving on an open road: the space, the freedom, the control. An airplane is the opposite—you’re...

This was now Adams’ quandary: Would he—a patriot who railed against British oppression, and whose cousin Samuel Adams ran the Sons of Liberty—defend the British soldiers?

Jay Dauphinais owns commercial industrial centers in the Bay Area, leasing space to businesses. Most of his tenants aren’t big firms. They’re lean, service-oriented companies...

Early in Dr. Jim Krasno’s autobiographical book, I’d Rather Do an Autopsy, there’s a scene where he arrives at a prison for the first time. Jim...

Bob Spaulding was 42 years old and teaching economics at San Diego State University when he decided to spend a summer bicycling across the country....

Steve Hanleigh, now in his late seventies, has worked in California real estate for over fifty years. He lives in Monterey, California, home of Cannery...

The duplex he owned in Oakland, California, was supposed to be his ticket to a better life. He’d bought it in 2004, only five years after he’d come to the Bay Area as a friendless, homeless yoga teacher.

The Protestors wouldn’t leave the field. Football players from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California watched, confused. Their game—a nationally televised rivalry matchup—was supposed to begin. But just after the coin toss, 15 protestors stormed the 50-yard-line and ran to the center of the field.This was Saturday, October 28, 2023. Viewers watching on TV assumed the protest was about Gaza, where Israel was retaliating for Hamas’s October 7 attacks. The protestors on the Berkeley football field certainly looked like they were protesting war: They shouted wildly, hooking their arms tightly together, ignoring the police. One young man appeared to be in tears.

Yiatin Chiu's 26-year-old daughter isn’t thrilled her mother is suing the New York State Department of Education.