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...
by News Staff | Apr 28, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Businesses in Independence have the figures to prove it. They’ve lost at least 75% of their business since Caltrans’ contractor turned the town into what looks like a combat zone (not conducive to tourists stopping to buy gas and food). We found out that...
by News Staff | Apr 20, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
What will the LADWP do now? The Los Angeles Times has memorialized the huge number and variety of birds that use the once dry Owens Lake as a critical stop in their migratory routes. Reporter Louis Sahagun personally joined the bird count crews last Saturday as they...
by News Staff | Apr 17, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
We don’t know about you, but we in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom find payment of taxes a painful experience these days. The agony seeps in with thoughts of how our government has spent our money in the past several years. We work our fingers to the bone on our...
by News Staff | Apr 14, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Happy headlines! Wow. We just had to pass this along. A story in the Los Angeles Times was headlined “Some Rays of Sunshine for the Economy.” The Hallelujah Chorus would sound appropriate right here. But, wait. Not so fast. In the Business Section of the...
by News Staff | Apr 10, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
One of our listeners shared some not so warm and fuzzy information from a social security statement. A brief note on the front of the statement says “In 2017 we will begin paying more in benefits than we collect in taxes. Without changes, by 2041 the Social...
