by News Staff | Sep 14, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Talk about back to the future. Seems some vacationers in a motorhome ran into some real trouble on Highway 395. A major transmission issue developed as they zipped along the scenic miles. Suddenly, the driver found himself with only one gear – reverse. So, what...
by News Staff | Sep 11, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
As you can imagine, the Bureaucrat Beat staff has huddled around our card table with serious thoughts about 9-11. As we frequently do before air time, we pondered the day and the philosophic idea that you can not create peace with war. That makes sense to us, although...
by News Staff | Sep 7, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Don’t get the wrong idea. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom live to skewer bureaucrats in all walks of life. To us the bureaucrat is the living symbol of negative qualities – bullyism, petty and peevish. We see this, not just in government workers, but...
by News Staff | Aug 31, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
The Bureaucrat Beat staff put our heads into government documents of late – the way too big Inyo County budget – 500 pages – and then Grand Jury reports from Inyo and Mono. Our ruminations on all that paper. The Inyo Supervisors were going to spend...
by News Staff | Aug 28, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
For most folks, and definitely for the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom staff, government budgets might as well be the lost tomes of Atlantis. They're long, arcane, complex, and to most people meaningless; but government budgets do have a lot to do with how our money is...
by News Staff | Aug 27, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat, Past Posts
After a string of shoplifting arrests and prosecutions, Mono Deputy DA Kyle Graham decided to do something to help on the prevention side of the law. He has created an anti-shoplifting poster that will be available for local businesses to display in their stores. A...