by News Staff | Oct 30, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
As some of you may know, the issue of the Caltrans highway widening and planned removal of 100 trees north of Independence, to make way for sidewalks, sent property owners, including me, to Sacramento to fight the plan before the California Transportation Commission....
by News Staff | Oct 23, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
We talked about it at our Bureaucrat Beat card table and decided that you don’t have to be of any particular political party or persuasion to come to the conclusion that corporations now run our country. That leaves us, the little guys, out in the cold,...
by News Staff | Oct 19, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
I don’t know what was scariest at Kmart – fake Christmas trees spinning about to the muzak tones of “Winter Wonderland”, the macabre vision of Gravekeeper Halloween costumes or the sudden announcement over the loudspeaker that we were listening...
by News Staff | Oct 17, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
What’s up at the Inyo County courthouse? We’ve received comments that some of the offices seem super-shy of employees. One source told us that under the hiring freeze 60 vacancies remain on hold. We know there are money problems, but, wow, that’s a...
by News Staff | Oct 12, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
They did it again. The Inyo Supervisors raised the eyebrows of even the most casual constituents. Citizens of Keeler and Death Valley don’t pay a dump gate fee. In a round about way, Inyo County calculated that for the some 2,000 people in the remote areas, it...
by News Staff | Oct 9, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Wow. My pulse is still racing. A nice man from Pasadena on the way to Mammoth fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into the fence and then a tree in front of our historic newsroom in Independence. Fortunately, he was okay. The frightening reality hit. If Caltrans moves...
