by News Staff | Mar 3, 2009 | Past Posts
In an effort to “get down to the meat of things,” as Planning Commissioner Rhonda Duggan stated, three commissions(planning, tourism and mobility) got together on Monday night to develop what they call the Destination Resort Community and Economic...
by News Staff | Mar 3, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Not only did banks make bad loans and and other bad decisions, regulators ignored the warning signs. We heard that about Bernard Madoff. A whistleblower made it clear that a Ponzi scheme was afoot. The Securities and Exchange Commission looked the other way. Swell....
by News Staff | Mar 2, 2009 | Past Posts
As the real estate bubble of recent years continues to burst, people who own homes on Forest Service land may end up paying high prices affected by the bubble for the next decade. Recently, Forest Service staff held a meeting for the 335 people who own houses on...
by News Staff | Mar 2, 2009 | Past Posts
Tuesday, voters who live inside the Bishop City limits head to the polls to decide who will sit on the City Council. Six candidates are running for three seats on the council. Long time councilmember Frank Crom decided not to run again, but two of the candidates...
by News Staff | Mar 2, 2009 | Past Posts
Two men from France, apparently touring the Eastern Sierra, narrowly missed a deadly head-on collision with a semi-truck Sunday night. It was close to 10pm when the siren in Independence blared out. Volunteers rushed to an accident scene three miles south of town....
