Cisco campus issues are less clear-cut than Calpine. But as mid-Peninsula resident, believe the 101-85 and south corridor is already a traffic mess. While originally the location near IBM may have made sense, have reached conclusion that traffic and housing and environmental issues need to be very carefully reexamined. Again, problems with pro-Cisco Mercury News coverage seems almost to have assumed that Cisco "belongs." Recent news reporting in spring-summer 2000 is quite in contrast to earlier in being more balanced, but the Mercury News' and parent company Knight Ridder's apparent relationships with Cisco continue suspect. This comes from, in part, ongoing personal study of the paper's coverage of certain large corporate interests in San Jose--from perspective as a retired university journalism educator concerned with media performance. Have also been better exposed to the range of issues through personal contacts. It seems clear now what goes on in Coy! ote Valley affects many in especially the South Bay Area, including at least as far north as the mid-Peninsula. The Mercury News has treated many of us almost arbitrarily as "being different" through its zoned editions providing varied news and/or emphasis by geography. In this situation, and many others, the paper's economic decisions to "break us up" this way and often restrict coverage is simply not acceptable in terms of the public's right to better know about major matters of Bay Area community concern.