by News Staff | May 22, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Talk about a slap in the face! Not only that but the word “clueless” springs to mind. The Governor and the legislature apparently had no idea how far off the mark they had gone in the public mind. They found out Tuesday night when voters, 66% of them said...
by News Staff | May 19, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
The Bureaucrat Beat newsroom staff raised their coffee cups high and clicked rims in congratulatory hyperbole. Why, you say? We had just read the Health section of the LA Times and the story that the latest research shows not only is coffee not harmful to your health,...
by News Staff | May 15, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Hey, Los Angeles, listen to this news. A private company, Poseidon Resources, won an approved plan to build a $320 million desalination plant along the coast of northern San Diego County. The plan could provide more than 56,000 acre feet of drinkable water by 2012. LA...
by News Staff | May 12, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
BUREAUCRAT BEAT 5-12-09 Will the State of California government go to President Obama for a bail-out? We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom have begun to think so. Headlines in the LA Times “State could run out of cash by July”. The Governor and the chief...
by News Staff | May 8, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Let's start out today with a slogan from a newspaper in Bishop back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was called the Owens Valley Herald. On the masthead of the paper was the slogan: "An Independent Weekly Journal that Chips the Block of Publicity Without...
by News Staff | May 1, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
May Day! May Day! Some call May 1st International Workers’ Day. In the United States, May 1, 1886, launched the Haymarket riots in Chicago which led to a general strike for the 8-hour work day. These days, many workers, excluding delusional CEOs, live in fear...