by News Staff | Nov 20, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
With turkey day just down the way, here is some depressing news about the cost of a holiday celebration. According to Bloomberg News, “A Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner with side dishes and dessert will be 11% more expensive this year, the biggest annual increase...
by News Staff | Nov 16, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
We have stories to curl your hair today. The group called Citizens Against Government Waste issued their California Piglet book this week. The group does the work to uncover bizarre spending habits of bureaucrats in California. Here goes! The report says that the...
by News Staff | Nov 13, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
A quick visit in the way-back machine to a couple of weeks ago when CNN made merciless fun of Bishop and a funding earmark for $50,000 as seed money for a mule museum. They knocked our Congressman Buck McKeon for "making a Jackass out of taxpayers." Okay. We...
by News Staff | Nov 13, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
A guy who talks to bears and convinces them to cooperate with people – different kind of cat, yes? The Bureaucrat Beat staff huddled over our table to kick around the issues that revolve around Steve Searles and the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Searles is not a...
by News Staff | Nov 7, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
DWP has done it again. The utility has made people just plain mad – this time, other LA City workers and southland citizens. As City of LA union negotiations got underway, The LA Daily News reported that the average DWP worker makes 20% more than the average...
by News Staff | Nov 2, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
In the dark corners of the Bureaucrat Best newsroom, the light will crouch more dimly in a day or two. You know, the Daylight Savings deal. Who came up with this? So, as the days grow shorter and now darker, this leads us to serious thought about our way of life. As...
