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Letter to Sierra Wave: Mammoth rentals

- The following letter to Sierra Wave Media was written by Jim Taylor of Santa Monica: Councilmember Michael Raimondo has repeatedly expressed his opinion that the town of Mammoth Lakes needs to be ready for developers when the economy turns around. However, his recent comments on the single family home debate undermine his own aspiration. [...]

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Dennis Mattinson’s Weather Forecast

Forecast: Owens Valley, Mammoth and Mono County By: Dennis Mattinson, Weather & Atmospheric Forecaster SierraWave Media: Radio – TV – Online News FRI MAY 03 2013 Quite warm today (10+ degrees above normal) followed by cooler air Sunday and much of next week, as a cutoff low will set up camp over California. This system [...]

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Dennis Mattinson’s Weather Forecast

Forecast: Owens Valley, Mammoth and Mono County By: Dennis Mattinson, Weather & Atmospheric Forecaster SierraWave Media: Radio – TV – Online News FRI APR 19 2013 Chamber of Commerce weekend coming up. Temperatures will continue an upward swing through the weekend and into early next week. All due to a stationary Rex-Block in the Pacific [...]

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Dennis Mattinson’s Weather Forecast

Forecast: Owens Valley, Mammoth and Mono County By: Dennis Mattinson, Weather & Atmospheric Forecaster SierraWave Media: Radio – TV – Online News WED APR 17 2013 Upper trough that caused the light snow and windy conditions pushed thru Nevada late yesterday and is now over the Utah/Colorado border. Heck we even got dusting over the [...]

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Dennis Mattinson’s Weather Forecast

Forecast: Owens Valley, Mammoth and Mono County By: Dennis Mattinson, Weather & Atmospheric Forecaster SierraWave Media: Radio – TV – Online News FRI APR 05 2013 Dry weather today and tomorrow with partly cloudy skies as flat ridging takes hold. Now for Sunday and Monday, things have changed a little. The low we talked about [...]

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Mammoth Mountain Receives First Snowfall of the Season

Mammoth Mountain issued the following press release: Winter has returned to Mammoth Mountain with a recent storm that dropped 19 inches of powdery goodness on the mountain. Only three months after the lifts stopped running last season, Mammoth has returned to its familiar snowy state. A storm rolled into the area on Tuesday night and [...]

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It’s official: More winter air flights to Mammoth

Mammoth Lakes Tourism has been touting new winter flights from Orange County and San Diego, and it became official Tuesday. Mammoth Mountain issued the following press release: Mammoth Lakes – Beginning this winter, San Diego and Orange County residents will have easy access to world-class skiing and snowboarding thanks to United Airlines’ new non-stop service [...]

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Mammoth Hospital: A full-circle story

By Gary D. Boyd, MPH CEO, Southern Mono Healthcare District Recently I was invited to dinner at couple’s home, who happen to be music lovers, in honor of a young woman, who happens to be connected to the music industry. The connection for me was the young woman, who I’ll call Amy, was involved in [...]

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Bureaucrat Beat: Grocery store congress, Americans Elect, and Twilight Zone

Our favorite suggestion of the week. Here it is – Take the first 535 people who walk out of Vons and put them in Congress.  They would do a better job than the guys who are there.  Hey, no joke.  They would, that is, until they were bought off by special interests. Much has been [...]

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Bureaucrat Beat: microchips, golden sax and G

Some scary news these days – right out of George Orwell kind of scary.  Okay.  We know it’s probably a good thing to have microchips imbedded in your pets so if they run away someone can bring them home, but there’s something about the phrase “mandatory microchipping of pets” that gives us in the Bureaucrat [...]

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Bureaucrat Beat: Greedy guys, Pizza and DWP, and bad omen

Have you seen the HBO show, “Too Big to Fail”? Gotta see it to feel the depth of the total self absorption and reptilian lack of care for the rest of the country on the part of all of the heads of big banks. The show unfolds the story of how they all pushed our [...]

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Bureaucrat Beat: Devil’s T-shirts, helpless and house arrests

We saw the devil the other day. He was wearing an Anthem Blue Cross Insurance T-shirt. That was on Monday. The rest of the week he wears the black T-shirt that merely sports the words “Wall Street” with flames that leap up from below. The devil likes the cliche – been there, done that, bought [...]

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