CPUC’s farewell for Michael Peevey is stage-managed to a T

Even with the cloud of San Bruno and way-too-cozy PG&E e-mails hanging over it, the California Public Utilities Commission made sure Michael Peevey’s final meeting as president had a happy ending — in fact, the agency pretty much staged it. In a memo leading up to Thursday’s meeting, media director Terrie Prosper instructed staffers to reserve 30 seats at the front of the agency’s hall on Van Ness Avenue for those coming to praise Peevey’s 12 years at the helm. “It was unbelievable,” said Mindy Spatt, spokeswoman for The Utility Reform Network consumer group. All was captured by a film crew brought in by Peevey’s daughter to commemorate the meeting as a Christmas gift to her father. Political reaction here in the Bay Area to President Obama’s normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations was predictably positive, with Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates proclaiming himself “ecstatic” and businessman-lobbyist-Cuban tour group organizer Darius Anderson likening it to Richard Nixon’s trip to China. Former San Francisco talk radio host Bernie Ward, who has spent the past seven years in federal prison for distributing child pornography online, was quietly freed Friday. A former Roman Catholic priest, Ward was KGO radio’s late-night Lion of the Left’’ and Sunday morning host of “God Talk” when he was indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2007 for sending pornographic images of children to a dominatrix he met online. “I will tear up knowing I will be home for Christmas and that this is my last Thanksgiving as a prisoner,” he said in a blog post from Lompoc Federal Correctional Facility last month. Ward also admitted “to a terrible mistake” and acknowledged the “embarrassment and humiliation the public nature of my crime” caused to family and friends. “It was that brokenness, and refusal to recognize it, which created an environment where poor choices ...

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