by News Staff | Nov 18, 2008 | Past Posts
The presence of Los Angeles and its water exports have squeezed local people into some unholy choices at times. Tuesday, they struggled with water to clean up the Owens Dry Lake's toxic dust or water for ranch leases. Some locals brought that choice before the...
by News Staff | Nov 18, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Austin, Texas – much on the Eastern Sierra radar recently. Inyo County Administrator Kevin Carunchio reportedly headed to the big T for a Stewards of the Range conference on a kind of “we’ll keep our guns and our land, too” strategy with a...
by News Staff | Nov 17, 2008 | Past Posts
Closing off dirt roads in the Eastern Sierra is a touchy subject for many local residents. When concrete barriers started to crop up on dirt road access to fishing on the north side of Crowley Lake recently popped up, some local anglers called to ask what was going...
by News Staff | Nov 17, 2008 | Past Posts
The local controversy over re-naming a popular Sierra Peak hit the front page of the LA Times recently. In July, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Barbara Boxer introduced legislation to change the name of North Palisade to honor former executive director of the...
by News Staff | Nov 17, 2008 | Past Posts
In case Wall Street and the big bank bail out seem light years away, try a local budget shortfall as a result of the economic troubles. In Mammoth Lakes, Town Manager Rob Clark expects the possibility of a $1 million shortfall this year. Bottom line – the...
