by News Staff | Aug 16, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Friday the 13th could bring bad luck down on the heads of bureaucracy as we point the public’s attention to the bad side. What is the bad side? The letter of the law when it buries the spirit of the law. We ran into a fair amount of that this week. Here we go...
by News Staff | Aug 11, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Bellorama has churned out more gasp worthy headlines. You know, Bell, CA where the public officials looted the city treasury for the most outrageous salaries anyone has ever witnessed. The City Manager, according to the LA Times, would rake in more than $1.5 million...
by News Staff | Aug 6, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
No more Chicken of the Sea for recent fish media stars. In fact, they’re downright tigers! You remember the whale that lept into the sky and threw himself onto a sail boat. Well, now a giant marlin went postal and tried to attack a boat load of press...
by News Staff | Aug 3, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
For those who have wondered, we in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom spend our days in support of the First Amendment and right to free speech. We do not, however, favor the release of military documents that may lead to killing. So far, the WikiLeaks releases, according...
by News Staff | Jul 30, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Love may mean never having to say you’re sorry, but apologies definitely required in politics. These days regrets seem to abound right after some politico talks and left his brain in outer space somewhere. They’re all sorry – from the Whitehouse to...
by News Staff | Jul 27, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Has the ghost of Christmas Past made it to the Forest Service? Bureaucracy gone Scrooge? That’s what some say about the Forest Service dinging the Mammoth Fire Fighters Association for a fee to put on the annual Firemen’s Picnic and Canoe Races...