by News Staff | Oct 10, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Someone just like us. That’s a big line for the political spin doctors of the day. Some candidates create the image that they are just regular Joe’s, “Someone like us” that we want to elect. Trouble is, why would we want someone “just...
by News Staff | Oct 7, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Hey, bureaucrats, don’t forget that it irks the public when you get better stuff than they have. Stuff like really rich health insurance, fat salaries, free cars and luxury hotels when you go out of town. Case in point. We received some stinging complaints about...
by News Staff | Oct 3, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
As we brace for government service cutbacks and economic disasters, the pundits tell us that it’s all about a lack of government regulation. Wall St. firms let greed out of the bag and ran hard with it. No rules stood in the way. Here’s another side of...
by News Staff | Sep 30, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
We’ve heard from a lot of you out there about the torture of economic trouble and the $700 billion bail-out proposal. On the human level, it all adds up to the horrible fear of loss – of retirement funds, savings, family nest eggs, financial security and...
by News Staff | Sep 26, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Engraved on the outside of the postal building in New York City: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Locals tell us Ginger Barnes, the postal delivery woman in...
by News Staff | Sep 23, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
We found a phone system even worse than Verizon. Apple! Ever tried it? The sadistic system of call, hold, wait, never talk to anyone probably exists in most big corporations. We just happened to run into the Apple mess because one of our newsroom computers failed. Our...
