District investigating sideline incident at a South Bay high school football game
A video appears to show a coach on the Willow Glen High School sideline shoving a sideline official to the ground An investigation has been launched after a video emerged showing a South Bay high school football coach aggressively pushing a sideline official to the ground during a game on Friday night. A coach on…
3 investors share the strategies they’re using to earn passive income and build wealth while they sleep
Building a side hustle is a great way to increase your income — but it can be time consuming. With passive income the idea is you do upfront work and then the gig pays you while you sleep. Investors who have built passive income streams share the strategies they used. Building a side hustle or…
Pac-12 chaos: Court documents show Washington, Oregon expected to be removed from key board discussions
WSU and OSU believe they are the only remaining members of board of directors Executives from Washington and Oregon acknowledged in writing that they would be excluded from Pac-12 decisions regarding the conference’s future — a potentially critical piece of evidence as Washington State and Oregon State, the conference’s only remaining schools, fight for control…
San Jose Giants pay tribute to players’ ‘patron saint’ for 52-year career
Linda Pereira honored by players, fans at Excite Ballpark ceremony There have been a lot of big names who have played for the San Jose Giants on their way to the big leagues, and you can bet they knew Linda Pereira’s name. Last Sunday, the team honored the woman known as the Patron Saint of…
Conquer Concord’s Taco Trail Challenge this Hispanic Heritage Month
More than 40 Concord taquerias to participate in this year’s challenge. Throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, everyone — taco fans, visitors, and Concord residents alike — is invited to visit the 41 Concord taquerias that comprise the city’s Taco Trail, which runs from now until Oct. 15. Whoever visits the most taquerias will be crowned Concord’s…
Editorial: User trust in Google takes another hit
Tech titan reaches settlement agreement after state said it collected location data without user consent Google’s user trust took another hit on Thursday. The tech behemoth agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California to resolve allegations that its location-privacy practices violated consumer protection laws in the state. The agreement follows a…
Mathews: VR took me to the world’s past — and to its future
A way everyday people can deliberate and vote on what gets lost, what stays, and what gets built When Konrad Adenauer approached me in the Old Market, I was taken aback. Sure, I was in Adenauer’s hometown of Cologne, Germany. But I never expected to see the German republic’s first postwar chancellor, let alone get…
Brooks: Departing Utah Sen. Mitt Romney gives us a rare gift
He stands for the idea that there are things more important in life than politics and winning elections You do things that make you feel ashamed at times. I had nothing to write about on the first day of the Republican National Convention in 2012, so I wrote a humorous column mocking the Romney family…
A top-12% portfolio manager over the last 5 years shares how he finds unloved stocks trading at massive discounts — and 6 of the top opportunities in markets right now
Leading portfolio manager Sam Peters has spent decades going against the consensus. Investing in discounted value stocks is both an art and a science, he explained. Here are six parts of the market where opportunities are waiting to be found. As fund manager Sam Peters has discovered over the last three decades, value investing can…
