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“The city recently put a cheap chip seal coating on our street near Las Animas School. For those who don't know what this is, it's a low cost way of preserving pavement. It's a oil seal with small rocks that stick to it. Basically a mess. The problem is that it has now been a couple months and the small rocks are everywhere. And I mean everywhere, even in the garage and in our house. They have damaged some of our neighbors wood floors. We have called the city to come out and take a look at it and they say this is normal. I can't believe that after months have gone by that the rocks should still be coming up. Nobody in the neighborhood is happy about this and the part that still amazes me is that the streets are only nine years old and did not even need to be sealed. There are much worse streets in Gilroy.”

There was public indignation when this column revealed late last year the secrecy maintained by the state Public Utilities Commission as it regulates the siting, building and design of several massive solar thermal electricity projects that will soon be a major part of California's energy portfolio.