by News Staff | Jun 23, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
If big health insurance companies showed something other than the ethics of street thugs who hurt people, Americans might not want a public health care plan. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom have noticed personally and through many local anecdotes that Blue Cross in...
by News Staff | Jun 12, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Someone who listens to our radio news called the other morning to say that it was sad to note that it took private citizens to sue Coso Geothermal to protect the Inyo County environment. The caller lamented the lack of concern some Inyo officials show for our...
by News Staff | Jun 9, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
One of Bureaucrat Beat’s fans said to us the other day, “Why are the unelected people running our lives?” We asked for an explanation. “The big corporations tell the politicians what to do. We never elected those big wigs,” he said. Good...
by News Staff | Jun 5, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Police controversies in Mammoth, land and water squabbles in Inyo. These gnarly deals lead right back to the top, we hear people say. We’ve fielded lots of website and telephone comments on the police thing. This week’s controversy stemmed from a reported...
by News Staff | Jun 2, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
The meteorological word in the Eastern Sierra seems to match our mood entirely. The warm, moist, dark clouds drop in to cover us like a mother’s blanket over a restless sleep. The newsroom wraps us in yet another cocoon. Day three, trapped in the newsroom by...
by News Staff | May 29, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
So, here we are – trapped in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom. Day two of Caltrans block on our driveway. You know, the Granite Construction sub-contractor told us we couldn’t go in or out of the driveway for three days while they slapped down concrete, etc....
