by News Staff | Jun 8, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Another Facebook (where we in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom will not go) moment. Yes, it’s Dubya on Facebook. You know, our former President. To once have claimed leadership of the free world probably leaves one with a heady feeling about oneself. When it’s...
by News Staff | Jun 4, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
The phone rings. You pick it up. A computer says, “We want you to vote for Mr. So and So.” We hear locals who have really had it up to here with the robocalls – as many as nine of them a night. Do they really think a computerized interruption in...
by News Staff | Jun 1, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Once again, the Inyo Supervisors will re-up their deals with attorney Greg James. He’s kind of an addiction that Inyo Greg James officials can’t seem to shake. James negotiated the Long-Term Water Agreement and sold it to the Supervisors. As things...
by News Staff | Jun 1, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Once again, the Inyo Supervisors will re-up their deals with attorney Greg James. He’s kind of an addiction that Inyo officials can’t seem to shake. James negotiated the Long-Term Water Agreement and sold it to the Supervisors. As things started to fall...
by News Staff | May 28, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Time for heads to roll, and if the offending bureaucrats worked in China that is literally what would happen. A news headline in the LA Times said, “Report Details Culture of Gifts”. It has come to that – a Culture of Corruption. The Times story said...
by News Staff | May 25, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom feel we need a kind of Elliot Ness to take charge as the Corruption Czar, go to Washington, D.C. and clean house. The piece of information that caused our mercury to rise was a committee report which likely will lead to nowhere. Why...