by News Staff | Sep 21, 2007 | Past Posts
The season's first cold-wet snap hit the Eastern Sierra with the first snow on Mammoth Mountain and othr upper elevations. Weather forecasters called for more scattered snow through the week-end and possibly beyond. Mammoth Mountain Ski Area crews reported more...
by News Staff | Sep 21, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Instantaneous impressions and conclusions that bubble up whenever we meet a new person or confront a complex situation or have to make a decision under stress. Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book, Blink, says he thinks we should pay more attention to those fleeting...
by News Staff | Sep 20, 2007 | Past Posts
Management of inmate beds at our county jails may be rivaled only by air traffic control. Some inmates can't bunk in the same area as others, but the worst problem – too many prisoners and not enough beds. At the Mono County Jail in Bridgeport, Sheriff Rick...
by News Staff | Sep 20, 2007 | Past Posts
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Bishop Elementary School District have reached a settlement on a harassment and racial discrimination lawsuit that stemmed from an incident at Home Street Middle School in October of 2005. With racial tensions already high...
by News Staff | Sep 19, 2007 | Past Posts
At close to 2:00 this afternoon, the Bishop Volunteers were called out to a brush fire burning in the fields between See Vee and Home Street. When the firefighters arrived on scene they found a small fire, about 50 feet square burning in trees and brush. Light winds...
