by News Staff | Apr 2, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
It’s a shared culture these days – the phone calls to banks, phone companies, tech support, insurance companies. You place the call, you go through an elaborate automated menu and hope your problem fits one of the categories. You press a number, another...
by News Staff | Mar 30, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Are you as sick of political polarities as we are in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom? Focus should go onto what’s good for people not on what makes big shots out of Republicans or Democrats. An email that now circulate around the internet calls for a 28th Amendment...
by News Staff | Mar 26, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Funny how some people like to re-do history. News reports said that the State Board of Education in Texas recently voted for a more conservative curriculum in the schools. They will de-emphasize the separation of church and state and they will exclude much about...
by News Staff | Mar 23, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
“The business of Independence is government,” said Nancy Masters in defense of the new court building in the County Seat. Many counties and states place the seats of their governments in central and sometimes small towns, designed for relatively fair...
by News Staff | Mar 19, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
St. Patrick’s Day this week brought back memories to the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom. It was that day in 1977 when John Heston and I were fired from our first radio news job. We produced a daily newscast on radio station KINC in Lone Pine. It was very popular. The...
by News Staff | Mar 16, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Why do we take all the hits LADWP hands out and none of the good stuff? The latest – Mayor Villaraigosa wants to raise the fuel charge rate on DWP power bills by 2.7 cents per kilowatthour. The LA Times said this rate hike would help cover the cost of new...
