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...
by News Staff | Jul 24, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Why, when the State Budget threatens to bludgeon citizens’ services all over the State, deprive infants, the elderly and poor of medical and social services, would the Director of Caltrans travel to Inyo County for a self-congratulatory ceremony? Did he pay for...
