by News Staff | Mar 11, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
So, have you adjusted to the fact that it’s later than we feel it should be? Of course not. Who are the time brokers and how can we make them leave our clocks alone? The federal government appears to claim credit for time meddling. This year, a story was...
by News Staff | Feb 29, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Today is special. We only experience February 29th about every four years. It’s all about keeping the Vernal Equinox, or first day of spring, in about the same place. Cosmic games, you say? Hey, let’s respect the astronomers machinations. We’ve got...
by News Staff | Feb 26, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
FEMA, the “we do fake press conferences to make ourselves look good” agency, has done it again. For more than two years, the homeless in New Orleans tried to make their homes in FEMA trailers, which reek of formaldahyde in the mobile home interiors. Now,...
by News Staff | Feb 25, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
What does this say about California? Seems in their quest to deal with a huge budget deficit, legislators in Sacramento fought to save a tax loophole for the wealthy while, at the same time, they considered further cuts to Medi-Cal, which means less health care for...
by News Staff | Feb 17, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
You know, sometimes news headlines get scarey. In the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom, we all grabbed copies of the Los Angeles Times, sat down at our table and began rustling through the pages. We vowed to stay close to home when we saw the headline – “Iraqi...
by News Staff | Feb 12, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Most of the audience at the ALIMAR awards dinner in Mammoth Lakes recently had not felt the heavy hand of Los Angeles in their daily affairs. So, when we published reports on DWP General Manager David Nahai’s wish for trust and good relations and the applause he...
