Governor Gavin Newsom last week announced two appointments of Bay Area residents, one to a state rail authority and the other to the state water commission.
Newsom appointed Peter Whippy, of Alamo, to Chief of External Affairs at the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Whippy was most recently the communications director for the U.S. Committee on House Administration.
The new High-Speed Rail external affairs chief also served as the Communications Director in the Office of United States Representative Zoe Lofgren…