by News Staff | Aug 14, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Businesses have a handful of ways to deal with the down economy. One of them – new logos and names. Union Bank now has a new logo that looks like a red tulip. Maybe that makes people feel happier about going to the bank.RadioShack has opted to go by “The...
by News Staff | Aug 11, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We’ll start today with the Good Ideas Gone Bad Department. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom do support the policy: No shoes, no shirt, no service. We prefer the civilized, don’t you know. But, as you may have noticed, we do feel rules can go too far.Case...
by News Staff | Aug 7, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Okay. We admit it. At first, we thought Twitter was just a dumb waste of time – you know, movie stars going on and on about what they had for breakfast, their favorite brand of tooth paste, etc. Then, suddenly Twitter became the communication tool of choice, or...
by News Staff | Aug 4, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom like to look at what is really going on. That helps us to make decisions about important matters. Take the health care reform issue. What is really going on? Drug companies and insurance companies continue to pay millions of dollars...
by News Staff | Jul 31, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Someone from Big Pine told us the other day that the phone company came in and yanked out all of the pay phones. We were actually surprised that there were any left. Verizon pretty much denuded Bishop and Mammoth of pay phones earlier. They told us the phones just...
by News Staff | Jul 28, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Some of our listeners have carped about the name of this column compared to the content. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom like to defy logic and labels. Years back when we started this on-air column, the bureaucracy had galvanized our philosophy to vigorously expose...
