Why has one toll booth on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge been closed for years? Why are do so many of our interstates end in "80"? And: Are there more vanity plates in the Bay Area?

A drone view of the San Gregorio Ranch Beach in San Gregorio, Calif., on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. The large tree stump ...

He began writing about the Bay Area music scene in 1992 and became the full-time pop music critic for the organization's Oakland Tribune in 2006. He is a South Bay native who graduated from San ...