There is a statute protecting the privacy of public housing residents, but this, Huskey points out, was a scholarship. I think her application was public record. It was so weird. In case of a strike at the Monterey Herald , Knight-Ridder's latest acquisition, reporters over at the San Jose Mercury News might be asked to help put out a scab paper in lovely Monterey. Unlikely, says straight-shooting union man and reporter Frank Sweeney .
Some people belong because they have to, some belong because they want to.
Ridder, as Eye readers know, has very high standards of journalistic honesty. He once introduced the trench-coated Laffoon as the Merc 's new publisher in an attempt to plant false information in this column. Public Eye welcomes tips.