by News Staff | Mar 25, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Saw a good sticker on a car window the other day. It said simply, "Don't believe everything you think." Wow. Heavy, as they used to say. We in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom decided to ponder that one, realizing that the ponderances themselves could be off...
by News Staff | Mar 13, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Ran into classic bureaucracy last Friday. A worker on my property found three dead birds – a hawk, a quail and a crow. That seemed odd. So, I called the Environmental Health Department where they told me to call the West Nile Virus Hot Line. Local health...
by News Staff | Mar 8, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Observers of the last Inyo Supervisors’ meeting were negatively impressed by what some called Supervisor Linda Arcularius’s diatribe against the environmentalist side of the public access issue. She reportedly accused them of being unethical because they...
by News Staff | Feb 26, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
In the Eastern Sierra, we may deal with more bureaucracy than most places. Bureaucracies – the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and City of Los Angeles – own our land. The privately held bastions number in the smallness of acres. So, the influence...
