by News Staff | May 11, 2010 | Letters to the Editor
The Vision, “Truly Discretionary”? by Kirk Stapp On May 5, the Town Council voted unanimously to lower Development Impact Fees (DIF) from $195 million to $105 million to incentivize new development which will compete with existing lodging, restaurants and...
by News Staff | May 11, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We will just dive right in today. The bureaucrats who oversee off-shore oil drilling? The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service. We carped about them last week for their wishy-washy environmental review of oil drilling in the Gulf. They found no...
by News Staff | May 11, 2010 | Past Posts
As if property owners in the Eastern Sierra Unified School District werent peeved enough, here comes news that their tax bills to support school bonds will likely go up. The school board had informed the public that the cost of the bonds would amount to no more than...
by News Staff | May 10, 2010 | Past Posts
With the new voter approved solar panel system now up and running on the Bishop Elementary Schools, listeners have asked for additional details on how the finances for the project work out. In November 2008, Bishop voters approved a bond measure to install...
by News Staff | May 10, 2010 | Past Posts
As Memorial Day approaches, plow crews continue to work to clear the high roads into the Sierra. Many roads to popular trailheads like Big Pine Creek and Sabrina are open, but the major summer thoroughfares like Tioga Pass and Sonora pass remain closed. Closer to...
