by News Staff | Nov 13, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We can’t resist the Friday the 13th piece about today. We feel strongly that it’s not unlucky. In fact, the only comment we can really make is witch hats are on sale at Kmart. The Wicked Witch of the West will likely show up – she’s a bargain...
by News Staff | Nov 10, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Here’s a headline worthy of note: “Voters pessimistic but not angry.” A new Los Angeles Times/ USC poll shows the public view that California has slipped into a long-term decline. Most think the state has veered off onto the wrong track, and the...
by News Staff | Nov 6, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We spent the morning on the phone to cancel all of the gosh-darn catalogs that clog up the newsroom mailbox. Good grief! In addition to the usual Pottery Barn, Hammacher Schlemmer, Pendleton, and Woolrich, we got Acorn, Acacia, Bits and Pieces. You get the picture....
by News Staff | Nov 3, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
As the bears go to sleep for the winter, the officials in Mammoth might want to wake up. Bears are smarter than they think. Recently published research shows that the bears in Yosemite chose, more often than not, to break into minivans, which generally hold more...
by News Staff | Oct 30, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We hear a lot of gripes these days about big banks. Every time you turn around, someone said, they slap on new fees and take away more service. Robert Reich’s blog on Truthout points to the complacency and abuses of big banks, many of which the federal...
by News Staff | Oct 27, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
The wrangle in Mammoth Lakes over the Wildlife Subcommittee and whether the group should meet in open on the bear issue revealed that others, outside the Eastern Sierra, watch what we do.Richard McKee from a group called Californians Aware sent a terse letter to the...
