11/4 Sac Bee on SF Public Power Election

The Sacramento Bee of Sunday, November 4, 2001 has an excellent story on San Francisco's public power election of November 6, 2001, "Energy Crisis Spurs Debate over Control: Public v. Private" by Deb Kollars at:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/1117151p-1184347c.html
The chart showing the difference between public and private power is at:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/1117151p-1184347c.html
As you will note, Sacramento has had public power since 1947; Palo Alto since 1900 and Los Angeles since 1902. There are 31 public utility districts listed.
The Sacto Bee's editorial supporting public power is at the end of the column that has the above story and another related story.

Sacramento's public power is enjoyed by all state legislators and the pro-PG&E, Democratic one-term Governor Gray Davis. The legislators all have an apartment in Sacramento if they do not live in reasonable driving distance to Sacramento.

The San Francisco Chronicle obviously needs journalism lessons, or better yet, just get off the streets of San Francisco. On the Sunday before election day, it had absolutely no news on the election of 11/6/01. All it had were its stinking, rotten, reactionary endorsements, opposing public power and most other progressive measures, and promoting reactionary candidates on its editorial page. Its feature news story was a story on the homeless, whom it portrayed as primarily drug and alcohol addicts whose addiction problems have yet to be solved by San Francisco. The primary problem of the homeless, namely the fact that they do not have permanent housing, was not addressed. The rest of the paper was government war propaganda and advertising. This is not a newspaper; this is utter trash. In the greater Bay Area, the Sacramento Bee and the San Jose Mercury News always provide more news than the stinking, rotten Chronicle. Yet the Chronicle has claimed the title of being the newspaper of record of Northern California. It is now so bad that it has lost that title.