by News Staff | Aug 17, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Lots of folks do not like the idea of amnesty. You know, giving people a free pass for whatever, but we in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom put our heads together and agreed we should call today, August 17th Bureaucrat Amnesty Day. It’s free pass day for those in...
by News Staff | Aug 8, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
The Bureaucrat Beat staff huddled and agreed that we do not feel safer today because the President has signed a new law that gives the government greater ability to eavesdrop on phone calls and emails without warrants. Hey, great if they happen to hear someone in the...
by News Staff | Aug 3, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Just when we had pretty much recovered from our trauma over the raging wildfire that threatened to eat up our newsroom, a bureaucrat came by to renew our fright. He said that we now have to worry about mud and flood waters that could rush down from the burned and...
by News Staff | Jul 31, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
We’ll start Bureaucrat Beat today with some thank-you’s. First, to US Forest Service Public Information Officer Nancy Upham. She has gone to work to look for answers to public questions about the Inyo Complex fire. One of the biggest public complaints we...
by News Staff | Jul 20, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Big hint for locally elected officials. Your constituents love (we’re talking way beyond mere like) to have your feet held to the fire. For the great masses, accountability ranks as a number one political desire. Enter Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce. As we...
by News Staff | Jul 18, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
The bureaucratic debate over the big fires which surrounded our newsroom rage on. The real flames have gone out, thanks to, it seems many things. The firefighters did their part, although we hear lots of yada-yada about that. At a public meeting, a DWP boss made it...
