by News Staff | Nov 13, 2007 | Past Posts
As one local gas station worker said, "This is all Bush's fault." The political side of gasoline prices. The Auto Club conducted a survey of gas prices and concluded that California gas prices are nearing record highs. In the Eastern Sierra prices edged...
by News Staff | Nov 13, 2007 | Past Posts
As our society falls into more violence and unpredictability, we live with more security measures. The local courts now face the addition of safety devices. The State offered grant money for metal detectors and x-ray equipment for courts. In Mono County, those...
by News Staff | Nov 13, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
A quick visit in the way-back machine to a couple of weeks ago when CNN made merciless fun of Bishop and a funding earmark for $50,000 as seed money for a mule museum. They knocked our Congressman Buck McKeon for "making a Jackass out of taxpayers." Okay. We...
by News Staff | Nov 13, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
A guy who talks to bears and convinces them to cooperate with people – different kind of cat, yes? The Bureaucrat Beat staff huddled over our table to kick around the issues that revolve around Steve Searles and the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Searles is not a...
by News Staff | Nov 12, 2007 | Past Posts
Besides the bizarre legalistic discussion of the Mammoth Bear Program, the Mammoth Town Council also recently took on the proposed ski back trail. The proposed ski back trail is planned to be 22 feet wide and to connect the ski area to the Village at Forest Trail....
