by News Staff | Jan 15, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Good news. Instead of yelling and screaming about matters, representatives of the Mammoth Lakes business community will sit down to talk with town and law enforcement officials about the best ways to inform the public of storm dangers. We wish to hear yelling and...
by News Staff | Jan 14, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Laws, laws and more laws. New rules on top of old rules, who can keep count? Let’s face it. We’re all law breakers. They make us that way. We’re expecting the next law to say, okay, people, breath in. Now, breath out. One of our listeners sent in a...
by News Staff | Jan 8, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
Not that we’ve become born-again Dale Carnegie devotees, but we just have to pull out one more quote from the principles of How to Win Friends and influence People. Here goes: “Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.” After hearing lots...
by News Staff | Jan 4, 2008 | Bureaucrat Beat
BUREAUCRAT BEAT 1-4-07 The staff of the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom must seem like a bunch of mouth gods, but we really do listen a lot of the time. What we hear from more and more of you – there are too many rules! They’re slowly closing in on us, people...
by News Staff | Dec 28, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Have you ever noticed how…well, ugly government buildings are, mostly? Like they want out of their way to build structures with no personality, no beauty? We could be charitable and say that this architecture is egalitarian, representative of all tastes or none,...
by News Staff | Dec 21, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
How appropriate – postal miracles for Christmas. We have visions of a screenplay in our head. You know, like Jimmy Stewart and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” We’ve already gone through the depression and angst portion of the story – all...
