Archive for June, 2008
When the best can’t pull it off…
What is to be done when even the best, most idealistic and well-seasoned elected official, in the country’s most politically progressive state, cannot prevent her staff from abuses of power based on crony-ism and conflict of interest?
Create a State Ombudsman Office.
30Jun2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
The People’s Right To Know – Right Now!
By J.T. “Jerry” Miller
Former Commissioner of Kentucky’s Department of Parks
You are a huge basketball fan. Your team is playing in the tournament finals. You’ve used your hard earned money to buy tickets for your family, not to mention the expensive drinks, popcorn and hot dogs. Now imagine that you and the other fans in the stands have to watch the game through a foggy window. You can’t really see the action, so you have to rely on the P.A. announcer who will give you updates on what’s going on – as he sees it.
23Jun2008 | Jerry | 2 comments | Continued
Changes and Announcements Coming…
BureaucracyBlog will soon have a new look, and one or more new authors contributing to the flow of information, analysis, and ideas. J.T. Miller, whom I wrote about in a post last month, has sent me an revised version of his op-ed piece and has kindly agreed to post occasional Kentucky updates here. There have [...]
23Jun2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
“Incredibly quick response for a governmental institution…”
A nod to yesterday’s Progress Report for pointing me to this Washington Times story. It’s about veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) being given the drug Chantrix in a Veterans Administration study about smoking cessation. Chantrix has a record of causing or exacerbating mental instability, and someone somewhere had to be nuts (to use the [...]
18Jun2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
A couple of different organizational bureaucracies…
My lack of posting much recently owes to my having had the opportunity to do some work with a couple of different organizations, each with very different cultures, though the leadership of each would describe them in terms very similar to each other. Both are service organizations, and both profess a style of operation that [...]
17Jun2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Stuck
Stuck is a movie I’d really rather not watch, but I think I’m going to have to see it. I don’t like seeing blood and gore, and Stuck has plenty of it, according to what I’ve read. But the movie juxtaposes a horrific, real life event against a callous bureaucracy, and that’s why I think [...]
9Jun2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
