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Posted on March 19 at 8:56 a.m.
Wow, who would have expected Santa Barbara's first ever St. Paddy's Day Parade to continue all the way to Bryce Canyon, in Utah, before turning around? Those poor dogs must have been howlin'.
Posted on March 14 at 8:02 a.m.
I've been fortunate enough to vacation on the Delaware Coast, where Dogfish Head beers originated (and where they are still brewed). Alastair is correct in his description: these are unique microbrews with huge flavor and each has its own distinct personality. Try the Raison d'Etre, if you get a chance. It's a mahogany-colored ale brewed with green raisins and Belgian-style yeast. Fantastic stuff!
Posted on February 18 at 8 a.m.
Good job (especially the bit about the News-Supress), but it went on for too long. Try keeping it to 4-5 minutes.
And Lauren Peterson is pretty fine. She should lose the glasses and jacket, so we can see what she really looks like.
Posted on January 2 at 7:23 a.m.
Bravo, Judge Kacol! Thank you for your attention to this case, for seeing through Cappello's smokescreen, and for rendering the correct decision.
Thank you as well for having the brass to tell the world what most of us already knew: that Armstrong, Steepleton, Von Wiesenberger, and Apodaca are shameless, black-hearted weasels whose allegiance to McCaw is far more important to them than the Santa Barbara community.
Posted on October 3 at 9:17 a.m.
Craig Smith has thoughtfully provided a PDF link to a first-rate commentary on the NLRB hearing and the News-Mess definition of bias, written by respected veteran newsman Lou Cannon:
http://www.west.net/~smith/blog/cannon10...
As always, Lou pulls no punches and makes some great points. Thanx to Craig for the solid hearing coverage and for the link.
Posted on September 21 at 10:49 a.m.
Nice job with this one, Starshine. I especially like the fact that you didn't use the column as a bully pulpit (the way a certain individual in the first couple rows of courtroom spectators no doubt would have).
Posted on September 15 at 7:19 a.m.
Newspapers publish people's addresses for a variety of reasons (possible stalker briefings notwithstanding).
For instance, let's say your name is, oh, Travis Armstrong. And let's say the police arrest a nasty, degenerate pederast who happens to be named Travis Armstrong.
But it's not you they arrest; the lowlife is a different Travis Armstrong. And both men coincidently live in the same general area.
Wouldn't you want the local newspaper to publish the address of the suspect, so as to make clear to your neighbors and co-workers that you are not the alleged bottom-dwelling pervert in question?
This is just one reason for printing the addresses of the people or businesses being discussed. There are many, many more, and all equally important, but none seemed to matter to Publisher McFlaw at the time she issued her no-addresses edict. What a maroon!
Posted on September 12 at 2:02 p.m.
Also of note, your new AnswerTips information application linked to your online stories claims Hobbs is a city of approximately 30,000 people in Southeast New Mexico.
If this is true, I'd be interested in reading a story on the logistics and effort involved in transporting it to Santa Barbara and getting it on the witness stand.
Keep up the good work. ;-)
Posted on September 12 at 1:46 p.m.
A question for the Indy copy editors, if I may.
Why is it that the copy which comprises the second half of this story also appears, in nearly identical, word-for-word form, in the body of the story on Dawn Hobbs' hearing testimony?
I'm sure the give and take between Hobbs and Cappello made for one of the more entertaining afternoons of the hearing, thus far. But was it sufficiently important and compelling to warrant inclusion in two different news stories filed on the same day by the same reporter, and without some much as a rewrite?
I ask this question out of curiosity. In my former life as a news reporter and copy editor, this sort of practice was regarded as a form of laziness and was considered bad form.
In this instance, however, some of your readers might look askance at the Indy's copy recycling program and yell, "Bias!"
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Posted on May 2 at 12:07 p.m.
What I find most galling about this most recent round of firings is the decision to axe people like Punzal or Klinger, who have been working at the N-P for many more years than The Wendy has owned it.
These are people who (presumably) know their job well, show up every day, and do as they are told (they likely wouldn't have lasted 25 or 28 years if they didn't, right?). And so just about the time they begin to contemplate retirement, "WHACK!" They get the axe. They are told the decision is strictly financial and not because of something they did or did not do. And after twenty-odd years of dedicated service, there's not a damn thing they can do about it.
"You're making this too personal," the grim reaper, Apodaca, tells one of the men. Yeah, right. This is exactly the sort of despicable treatment that prompts employees to seek union representation. I've seen the same thing happen to friends of mine, and it made a believer out of me.
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