by News Staff | Nov 9, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Once again, the CBS Sunday Morning Show has inspired Bureaucrat Beat. First, it’s quality television, which, these days, seems like an oxymoron. This past Sunday, they served up a feature on customer service – another oxymoronic state of affairs. We in the...
by News Staff | Nov 5, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Some of our friends said they feel hopeful for our economy now that Washington will house more Republicans. We just want to remind you, friends, that it was 8 years of a Republican Administration that pushed us to the precipice of financial doom. It does pay to employ...
by News Staff | Nov 2, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Well. Election Day. We in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom sipped coffee yesterday and shot barbs at politicos and the legalized bribery afoot in Washington and Sacramento. How to vote? Look very carefully for some hint of ethics, intelligence and, this will surprise you,...
by News Staff | Oct 29, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Words of the day convey some of the current meanings of things. Stephen Colbert’s word, “truthiness” has been described as sublimely idiotic. It also reflects political communiqus that are less than forthright. We also liked another word that a guest...
by News Staff | Oct 26, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
The Town of Mammoth Lakes faces a future that may include bankruptcy or a prolonged court fight. The blame game only goes so far and that’s not very far. Maybe officials did make mistakes. Maybe this will amount to a deeply painful lesson learned. The maybes...
by News Staff | Oct 22, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Like death by a thousand cuts, Inyo Supervisors seem willing to let DWP have a few inches here, a few inches there, and so the water and the power goes and goes. Why do Inyo Supervisors try so hard to support DWP’s version of reality? Some of them demonstrated...
