by News Staff | May 22, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom do not pretend we understand the back story of international politics. Hey, we just know what we see, read and hear. What we wonder about is the private conversation that President Obama had with Mexican President Felipe Calderon...
by News Staff | May 18, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We know this post will further brand us as curmudgeons or worse, but here goes anyway. We do not like it when we go to a drive-up window for food or coffee and the disembodied voice on the other end wants to know “how are you doing today?” Hey, we...
by News Staff | May 14, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Do we really need laws for everything? Some argue that if people come to rely on laws to tell them what to do they will forget how to think. Common sense atrophies, they say. We tend to agree. So does Governor Schwarzenegger. When he visited Mammoth Mountain last...
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 7, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
One of our website comments wanted to know why Inyo Water Director Bob Harrington “recommended” DWP obey the Water Agreement instead of demand it. Good question. Answer? The Inyo Supervisors, who set policy, apparently have not backed up Harrington so that...
by News Staff | May 4, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
There’s a new tyrant in town. The U.S. Census Bureau. As we reported last week, many Census workers hired in Lone Pine and Bishop have never gone to work. They sit and they wait. One of those people hired and put on hold for weeks with no pay went through the...
