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Posted on November 17 at 7:32 a.m.
Bravo and thank you, Montecito Pet Shop ! You see the problem and the tragic consequences for so many beautiful and innocent victims and you are doing something about it. All the dogs of my life have come from rescue situations,each bringing his or her own story. Good luck to the pets and their new guardians.
Posted on November 9 at 7:35 a.m.
Yes, the NP has been inadequate for decades and for most of those years a safe haven for third rate journalists who are now clearly eager to use Wendy as their whipping girl. If this is not so why has this piece of egregious non- news been running on the front page for so long? There has been real news happening that one can even catch on Edhat!
The Sound is good. At least they have figured out how to print an appealing front page occasionally without consistently stale news and pictures ! It's Monday morning guys and the front page is boring and still running old chestnuts. Time to wake up and get out there. I like the The Independent,it's good, but way too eager to gnaw over a very old bones for much too long. Bury them and move on.
Posted on November 6 at 7:37 a.m.
For the sake of it's moment of glory this promising paper, encouraged by a few bitter and easily forgettable has-beens and wanna-bees who clearly reached the level of their incompetence decades ago, has slipped into the mire of stale journalism. Dredge the bottom and up comes the last resort,snarkey sexual slurs and innuendoes. Get over it and move on. You can do better.
Posted on November 5 at 3:36 p.m.
Yes, it's called freedom of the press. :-) However, after reading through this rambling column,a clumsy coup de grace delivered with a hack saw; and the even worse comments it attracted from a cross section of this town I plan to renew my subscription to the News Press and take my chances. It cannot be worse than this. General Harrison Gray Otis purchased the LA Times in 1881, after his failed attempt in 1876 as Editor of The Santa Barbara Press. The biggest crook imaginable he was the great grandfather of Otis Chandler and hated the unions. Otis Chandler himself, sadly unable to control his warring relatives retired, ushering in the end of a dynasty and the eventual demise of the Los Angeles Times as we knew it..
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Posted on November 3 at 7:04 a.m.
This chestnut still running on the front page? Guess the small minds need their moments of glory. Kick around a man long enough and who knows, one day it could make one look really good. Only by then the object of one's gall has happily moved on and out of the mud puddle. And then guess who is trapped in the quagmire of his own making ?
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Posted on November 2 at 8:15 p.m.
Instead of concentrating on McCaw bashing why not do something useful for a change?
The owner of a newspaper has right to run it the way he or she seems fit. They have the right to control it's content and personnel under the guarantees of the First Amendment. [ McDermott v. Ampersand Publishing LLC, Central District of California, No. CV08-1551 (2008) ] Appeals failed.
In her editorials in the News-Press, Mrs. McCaw is a strong defender of animal rights, arguing against whaling operations and a federally funded hunt to kill feral pigs on the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. In recognition of her work, Ms. McCaw has received several awards including the 2004 Michael Douglas Philanthropist of the Year Award and in 2005 the Humane Society of the United States honored her at the Genesis Awards for "Outstanding Newspaper Editorials," citing an outstanding collection of 44 editorials presenting important animal issues in need of public attention and effecting change in the process. Obviously Mrs McCaw does not waste her spare moments on idle mendacity. She leaves that to the local experts.
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Posted on November 2 at 9:37 a.m.
The most hated man in town? Let's think outside the play pen. Clearly there are a few before Travis eligible for this new category in the Independent's yearly exercise. Newspapers are supposed to relate the news, and even retired semi- reporters can quit chewing over the tired old stuff and get off their behinds now and again.
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Posted on November 2 at 6:32 a.m.
This bitter and rambling ( where has the art of precis gone?) article, echoes the small minds of a town that has grown but can't throw off it's provincial shackles. I'd take an animal over a human being any day.
"great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people". Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Posted on October 31 at 7:50 p.m.
There is a awful lot of vitriol and sulfurous hot air here. Methinks maybe the man protesteth too much ?
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Posted on November 19 at 11:39 a.m.
...and Kratatoa, there is the old saying "one cannot by love". Is a puppy more or less deserving or more capable of offering more unconditional love to his guardian if the guardian pays $40,$400,$450 or $4000! Our pure bred Alaskan puppy dog came with his Kennel Club papers and large bag of dog food because his owner had to leave the country and could not take his beloved pet with him. He did not want to return him to the breeders and a stud/kennel environment. He just wanted to be assured of the happy family environment we could give the dog for the rest of his life, instead of the $2,000 offer from the breeder. Why so uppity about paying $450 for you puppy? You are both lucky. No doubt you love him, just as much those who pay $400 for these rescue dogs, from whom they will receive boundless and endless joy in return. Let it go.
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