Legislators blast Public utilities commission
By Steven Harmon/Bay Area News Group Two and a half years after the rupture of a PG&E gas line killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in San Bruno, state legislators Wednesday blasted officials at the Public Utilities Commission for fostering a culture that downplays safety and is steeped in cozy relations with the utilities they are supposed to regulate.
The Government informed today it took over former Ciccone printing company and sent a bill to Congress which seeks to expropriate it declaring the company a ``public utility.''