Sacramento Bee: Few fights are uglier than the ones over beauty. And whats going on at the California Coastal Commission is one of the uglier fights in a while.
Charged with protecting and managing Californias 1,100 or so miles of spectacular coastline, the 12-member commission perhaps the most powerful land-use body in the nation has scheduled a Feb. 10 public hearing on whether to dismiss its executive director, Charles Lester.
The confrontation has been cast alternately as a personnel matter and a...