Hank Plant, whose 24-year run at Channel 5 Eyewitness News ends tonight, tells the Bay Guardian in an exit interview that politics has become much more ugly over the years. “It’s just so much more acrimonious, that’s one thing that’s changed. The other is just the money that’s involved,” Plante said, noting Meg Whitman’s plans to spend $40 million of her own money to run for governor. [More].