News-Press Lawyer Doubts Indy Integrity
Last week, the News-Press‘ attorney Barry Cappello (pictured) sent a letter to Barney Brantingham, the daily newspaper’s longtime columnist who began writing for The Independent last summer after he quit his job in the first wave of resignations. 
Last week, the News-Press‘ attorney Barry Cappello (pictured) sent a letter to Barney Brantingham, the daily newspaper’s longtime columnist who began writing for The Independent last summer after he quit his job in the first wave of resignations. Cappello asked for a correction and then called into question the integrity of The Indy‘s coverage of the matter, specifically the allegedly hypocritical stance of senior editor Matt Kettmann. Kettmann responded with a long letter, and that’s what we’ve posted for your reading pleasure here. Cappello is yet to res In that letter, Cappello asked Brantingham to correct an online posting that’s headline suggested Cappello was being sued. (We changed that headline accordingly.)
While Isla Vista tongues wag about the recent arrest of UCSB soccer star Eric Frimpong, Mollie Vandor points out that most of the people doing the talking don’t have enough facts to make an absolute statement regarding guilt or innocence. According to Mollie, the public’s opinion doesn’t matter – and it might be worth a moment to remember that.
Dr. Collie Conoley discusses teasing, which some studies show may be a more important part of children’s formative years than some adults realize. However, with the right tools, even the most easily teased youngster can turn teasing into a productive experience.
The former Marines intelligence commissioner and a security consultant for Fox News and the media critic convened in Santa Barbara for a speech on the danger of the allegedly impending U.S. invasion of Iraq and the failings of corporate media, respectively.
Shortly after 11 a.m. this morning, legs pounding furiously in the brisk winter air, American rider Antonio Cruz came flying down Mission Drive in Solvang, his lycra-clad body silhouetted against a snow-capped horizon. Cowbells ringing and boom bats banging, he leans hard to his left, the wind whooshing loudly against his back tire. And that’s just the start of this update to the Tour of California, which races through Santa Barbara County this weekend.
This re-posting of a comment on a previous entry in the Santa Barbara Media Blog provides an interesting perspective on the mess at the News-Press: that of Camilla Barnwell (formerly Cohee), who quit the paper last summer.
The university made official announcements of advancements by its college of engineering and English department researchers into the fields of low-cost light and primary text archival, respectively.
Sunita Narain, a noted force in the effort to clean up pollution in India, addressed a crowd at UCSB’s Corwin Pavilion Thursday night about the difference between what the American environmental movement has done and what less wealthy countries like India can do.