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...
by News Staff | Oct 23, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
So, a young man in a bookstore looks over at a young woman. He wants to know if she will sign up for a book give-away. Her cell phone rings. She takes the call and hangs up. The young man says, “I like your ring tone.” One more new way to flirt in the...
by News Staff | Oct 16, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
The cold winds blow and we draw our sweaters tighter in the newsroom. Change. Brrrr! From Mammoth to Lone Pine, people say they are not ready for winter. Do we ever really want change? Not much.Tuesday we talked about the Brown Act, secret meetings and the...
by News Staff | Oct 13, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Sometimes our public officials here in the Eastern Sierra do not realize how close they have skated to breaking a law – a violation of the open meeting law, that is. Officials can’t shut people up because they don’t agree with their views....
by News Staff | Oct 9, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
While the Inyo Supervisors and DWP gnash their teeth and tear their hair over a few thousand dollars to keep Klondike Lake open for week-long use, former DWP manager David Nahai maneuvered a consultant deal to get $6300 a week through the end of the year while he also...
by News Staff | Oct 7, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
A recent “60 Minutes”-Vanity Fair poll uncovered some fascinating peculiarities about Americans. 37% found politicians who take bribes as the greatest sin, compared to only 2% who found extramarital affairs as the major no-no. Why, then, does the citizenry...
