by News Staff | Jun 11, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We like to start out Bureaucrat Beat with the ridiculous. It sets the tone for what will follow. So, here it is. In the news this week, the Elvis Presley estate signed a deal Hasbro Inc. and PPW Toys to release an Elvis version of (are you ready for this?) Mr. Potato...
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...
