by News Staff | May 17, 2011 | Bureaucrat Beat
We in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom felt somewhat gobsmacked, British slang for shocked, when we read the Friday press Channeling through the ether to the Owens Valley? release from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The DWIP clearly hoped the release would...
by News Staff | May 13, 2011 | Bureaucrat Beat
Driving around the Eastern Sierra today I noticed some bumper stickers. One said MyBillofRights.org. It’s a group that wants to get back to the Bill of Rights, which amounts to the first ten amendments to the Constitution. The group has gone to work to display...
by News Staff | May 10, 2011 | Bureaucrat Beat
Note to citizens of the Eastern Sierra: You can have more control over local issues if you push to get your item on a public agenda – Town Council, City Council or Board of Supervisors. A public comment does not cut it. The elected officials can’t even...
by News Staff | May 6, 2011 | Bureaucrat Beat
Saw a headline we liked here in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom. It said, “Reporting, not cheerleading” – this over a story about the reporting of Bin Laden’s death. It’s a distinction we try to make for the public. News reporters are not in...
by News Staff | May 3, 2011 | Bureaucrat Beat
Added to the other lies of trickle down economics and the check’s in the mail, AT&T has proclaimed that if they can buy up T-Mobile service will improve generally. Oh, really. When the U.S. will have only two cell phone providers? One step from monopoly?...
by News Staff | Apr 29, 2011 | Bureaucrat Beat
This is sad. The Auto Club reports that they have delivered gas to more than 15,000 stranded drivers per month in Southern California. That’s a 13% increase. Northern California reported a 26% raise in helping drivers who let the gas gauge go to empty. Officials...
