Bureaucracy

Mayhem in the Making: A Political Circus, An Out-of-Control Government Bureaucracy and a Distracted Populace

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Boeing, Neil Postman, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Bureaucracy, Elections 2012, White House Dinner, Defense Spending, Pork, Politics News

On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the day after the next president is elected, the government as we have come to know it -- corrupt, bloated and controlled by big-money corporations, lobbyists and special interest groups -- will be largely unchanged.

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Bureaucracy Bashing, Obama-Style

Rena Steinzor | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Regulation, Federal Agencies, President Obama, Bureaucracy, Obama Administration, Federal Government, Politics News

By casting regulatory agencies and the people who work there as tin-eared buffoons, the President makes it all the harder for the agencies and their advocates to get the political support they need to adopt badly needed safeguards.

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Politics In Austria: Expatriates And Bureaucrats

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Politics, Austria, Balkans, Bureaucracy, European Union, Expats, Stefan Zweig, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, World News

At the end of the day, bashing Austria as an expat is merely like trying to find the one thing that is wrong with a Jane Austen novel, the elegant form often hides the weakness of the content.

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The 10 Colleges With The Worst Bureaucracies

Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: College Bureaucracy, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Long Lines and Red Tape, Princeton Review, Government Bureaucracy, College News

Hating waiting forever to get your transcript? Don't want to deal with a nightmare when you switch majors? It may be time to look critically at scho...

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Kitchen Found 'Not Liable' For City Fines, But Remain Incensed

Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Rahm Emanuel, Logan Square Chicago, Small Business Red Tape, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Health Inspections, Chicago Business, Logan Square, Zina Murray, Chicago Bureaucracy, Logan Square Kitchen, Chicago News

When Logan Square Kitchen owner Zina Murray announced last week that she was heading to court to challenge three violations she described as "groundle...

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Shared Kitchen 'Fed Up' After 19 City Health Inspections

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Logan Square Chicago, Small Business Red Tape, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Health Inspections, Logan Square, Chicago Business, Chicago Bureaucracy, Zina Murray, Logan Square Kitchen, Chicago News

The Logan Square Kitchen, a collective kitchen space based on Chicago's near Northwest Side is no stranger to red tape, but after nearly 20 inspection...

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Palatine Rejects Tobacco Store Amid Bong Concerns

Palatine, IL Patch | Palatine, IL Patch | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Bureaucracy, Palatine Patch, Tobacco, Marijuana, Chicagoland Patch, Patch, Bongs, Chicago News

The Palatine Village Council Monday rejected plans for a tobacco shop amid concerns about products that could have "alternative" uses. Palatine res...

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Two Years Later, City Allows Chicago Hot Dog Stand To Hang Their Sign

Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Hot Dogs, Hot Dogs, Chicago Red Tape, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Felony Franks Sign, Bob Fioretti, Felony Franks Chicago, Felony Franks, Chicago Bureaucracy, Chicago News

The owner of Felony Franks, a prison-themed West Side hot dog stand, on Thursday installed a sign advertising his business following a two-year legal ...

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City Rolls Out Red Tape For Bike-Powered Pub Crawl

Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Pedalpub Chicago, Pub Tours, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, Pedalpub, Bar Crawls, Chicago Around Town, Chicago Bureaucracy, Chicago News

A popular Minnesota-based bike-powered pub crawl company looking to expand into the Chicago market has run into more than its fair share of difficulti...

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When Washington Works

Linda Flanagan | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Disease, David Brooks, Bureaucracy, Foreign Affairs, Global Poverty, Foreign Assistance, Usaid, Sarah Palin, Gates Foundation, Politics News

What most of us don't see, and rarely hear about, is the silent army of civil servants who do the actual work of running the institutions that make up our government.

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New Orleans: Ground Zero in the Cultural War

Brian Ross | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Alabama, Birmingham, Emeril Lagasse, George W. Bush, Bureaucracy, CULTURAL WARFARE, Tennessee Williams, Culture, Ideologies, Hurricane Katrina, Ground Zero, Harry Connick Jr., Jazz, Wynton Marsalis, Living, Hurricane, Big Insurance, Louisiana, Politics, American Values, Fema, 9th Ward, Barack Obama, William Faulkner, Democrats, Louis Armstrong, Bryant Gumbel, Federal Government, Birthers, Republicans, Flood, New Orleans-Louisiana, Katrina, Politics News

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Ro...

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Inside One Of Japan's Nuclear Ghost Towns

FORTUNE | Bill Powell | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Nuclear Energy, Bureaucracy, Minamisoma, Japan, Fukushima Dai-Ichi, Tepco, Hazmat Suit, Business News

It's as ordinary a Japanese town as you could find, except for one fact: these days, small or large, all the businesses have one thing in common: they...

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Bureaucracy: A Week of Enduring the Cuban System

The Morningside Post | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Bureaucracy, Cuba Travel Ban, US-Cuba Policy, Cuban Embargo, World News

Why did the most mundane of tasks require going from place to place and person to person, and waiting in numerous lines?

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U.S. Firms Growing Impatient With Chinese Bureaucracy, Survey Says

Reuters | Koh Gui Qing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, World Trade Organization, Indigenous Innovation, Companies, Bureaucracy, Red Tape, U.S. Firms, Chinese Commerce Ministry, Wto, China, American Chamber of Commerce, Amcham, Google, Business News

By Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. firms are increasingly vexed over growing Chinese red tape that prevents them from expanding quickly in Ch...

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Quality Education, By Any Means Necessary

Larry Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teachers' Unions, Bureaucracy, Freethinking, Multiple Choice Tests, Public Education, Education News

Teaching should be pure joy. That so many of us are frustrated and alienated -- some to the point of despair -- is intolerable. We can end the suffering by making 2011 the year of the subversive educator.

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Is Your Business Falling Into 'The Big Rut'?

Les McKeown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bureaucracy, Growth, Strategy, Business, Business Strategies, Business Advice, Business News

There are three keys to ensuring that a reasonable dependence on systems and processes doesn't swell into arthritic bureaucracy.

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Thanksgiving in Chicago, As American as Apple Pie... Without the Crust

Beth Milnikel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Mullen, Chicago Police Department, Apple Sauce Recipe, Chicago Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2010, Bureaucracy, Video, Chicago News

A quadriplegic, former police officer Jim Mullen is nevertheless an entrepreneur living the American Dream. His growing apple sauce business has, unfortunately, been forced to deal with Chicago bureaucracy.

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Giant Cleanup Ship Met With Puny Response From Our Government

Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Oil, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Gulf of Mexico, Skimmers, Bureaucracy, Coast Guard, Saudi Arabia, Government Oil Spill, Green News

A giant-capacity skimming ship has arrived in U.S. waters, yet our government has left us wondering whether it will permit the ship to join the cleanup effort.

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ReelzChannel: Top 10 Government Jobs for People Who Bruise Easily

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Government, Top Ten List, Superheroes, Humor, Satire, Bureaucracy, Action-Adventure, Horror Movies, Musicals, Film, Science Fiction, Comedy, Movies, Entertainment News

In the high-octane film, The Losers, CIA black-ops set out to avenge their betrayal at the hands of a mysterious gent known only as Max. Good thing th...

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How Our Government Slowed Down the Gulf Cleanup

Ernest Istook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Foreign Affairs, President Barack Obama, Epa, Bureaucracy, Regulation, Coast Guard, Gulf Oil Spill, Barack Obama, Government, Environmental Protection Agency, Bp Oil Spill Cleanup, Clean Water Act, Oil, Environment, BP Oil Spill, Thad Allen, Politics News

Our own government has quietly admitted that America needs foreign help to handle the oil spill -- almost two months after pushing that help away. Far more oil could have been intercepted before it fouled the Gulf Coast.

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Arlington's Gravegate Scandal Could Have Been Prevented

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Bureaucracy, Arlington National Cemetery, Federal Government, Sean Paige, Denver News

What a depressing testimony to the entrenched incompetence at the federal level. What an insult to the heroes who are buried and honored at Arlington.

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Tales of Toll Booth Trauma: Relics of a an Era at its End?

Louise Nelson Dyble | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bureaucracy, New Jersey Turnpike, Transportation, Healthy Living News

For a little risk-free transportation voyeurism, this collection of complaints is truly hard to beat, and runs the gamut from obscenity to nudity to theft to racial slurs to some pretty alarming threats of violence (a la "I know where you live"). No need to crane one's neck or hold up traffic to observe some high drama conflict.

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South Carolina To Root Out 'Subversives', Make Them Pay Five Dollars

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bureaucracy, South Carolina, Paranoia, Subversives, South Carolina Secretary of State, Eat the Press, Politics News

CLARIFICATION: Contra the available reports, this inane law has actually been on the books since 1951. It's garnered renewed attention because a repea...

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Privatized Bureaucracy is Still Bureaucracy

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Corporations, Bank of America, Etna, AT&T, Hcr, Bureaucracy, Credit Cards, Health Care, Politics News

From a consumer vantage point, privatized bureaucracy seems an awful lot like regular bureaucracy.

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Russian Activist Uses Blog-Power to Beat FSB

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fsb, Russia, Harassment, Bloggers, Bureaucracy, Kgb, Media News

Thanks to bloggers' active support, we managed to defeat the seemingly unbeatable Russian Federal Security machine.

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