by News Staff | Jun 24, 2009 | Past Posts
The Bond Buyer is a daily newspaper of public finances. Earlier this month, an article in that paper delved into the financial and legal problems of the Town of Mammoth Lakes. The article said Standard & Poors lowered Mammoth’s bond rating because of the...
by News Staff | Jun 23, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
If big health insurance companies showed something other than the ethics of street thugs who hurt people, Americans might not want a public health care plan. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom have noticed personally and through many local anecdotes that Blue Cross in...
by News Staff | Jun 22, 2009 | Past Posts
It took a consultant to tell the Eastern Sierra Transit Board that their organization suffered from “mission conflict.” In non-bureaucratese, that means some officials assumed ESTA was about transit. Others assumed it’s about service, particularly to...
by News Staff | Jun 22, 2009 | Past Posts
In Mammoth Lakes, all parties involved sat down to negotiate at the Village at Mammoth. At last word, no final agreement had been reached over long-time differences of rent, fees and more. Attorney Rick Wood represents 15 tenants at the Village. He said that last...
by News Staff | Jun 22, 2009 | Past Posts
Homicide Suspect Louis Laplat A 23 year old Bishop man died Saturday night, reportedly from stab wounds. The Sheriffs Department has called it a homicide. Investigators continued to serve search warrants and question witnesses to determine what happened Saturday...
