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Opinion

Cuts Are a Self-Sabotaging Quick Fix

We, the Mentally Ill

“Roger, on a scale of one to five in intensity, how would you rate the last week?” Read story.

By Roger Thompson
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Angry Poodle

Biting Dogs Don’t Bark

With all the hubbub about the presidential primaries — the half-life of which has already exceeded that of plutonium — a lot of ... Read story.

In the Valley of the Dogs

The Angry Poodle grills up the lawsuit that the Santa Barbara News-Press filed against The Indy, which was settled ... Read story.

On the Beat

News-Press Lays Off Another One

Patrick Windmiller is the 11th employee to hit the bricks in the past two weeks. Barney has the story ... Read story.

Money and Other Strangers

Michael Jackson’s 2,600-acre Neverland Ranch theoretically could be split into 100-acre parcels under current zoning, although such an extreme ... Read story.

Voices

Cuts Are a Self-Sabotaging Quick Fix

We, the Mentally Ill

“Roger, on a scale of one to five in intensity, how would you rate the last week?” Read story.

By Roger Thompson
Thursday, May 15, 2008
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U.S. Military Measures Climate Change

Intelligence Establishment Calling It a Major Security Problem

Last April, Congress directed the National Intelligence Council to issue the first ever National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on climate change. Read story.

By Sam Kornell
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Memoir by Murat Kurnaz, Survivor of American Torture, May Help U.S. Face Reality

Overcoming Denial

For the last two years, my mother has flown to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, every few months to meet with her pro bono client, a 32-year-old Algerian man named Abdul Aziz Naji. Read story.

By Hannah Tennant-Moore
Thursday, April 24, 2008

County Mental Health Cuts a Self-Sabotaging Strategy

Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide

City councilmember Helene Schneider weighs in on what will happen when Santa Barbara County cuts back on mental health. Read story.

By Helene Schneider
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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The Academic Focus Block Schedule

A Better Way to Learn

Why is it that people think having six classes in one day is the only way high schools can or should be structured? Read story.

By Jack Hobbs
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Letters

Victory for V

This letter is to support Measure V, the Santa Barbara City College District bond on the ballot on June 3. Measure V has broader community ... Read Letter

Down With V

I hope that you are allowing opposing view points on Measure V. Measure V is flawed from the point of view of Mesa residents and ... Read Letter

Push Miramar Back

We are disappointed to learn that developer Rick Caruso has failed to address concerns related to removal of the Miramar's unsightly seawall and hulking beach ... Read Letter

Timing is All

This brief letter is about a restrictive hearing timetable that limits citizen input on a big oil decision impacting our city. Carpinteria is soon conducting ... Read Letter

Sterilize the Purebreds

As an animal shelter volunteer, I sympathize with Santa Barbara County shelters’ struggle to accommodate the endless stream of homeless animals who pass through their ... Read Letter

Reviewer vs. Rushdie

D.J. Palladino's recent preview of Salman Rushdie's talk at UCSB [The Empire Writes Back, May 1] is a curiously mixed affair: the center bits given ... Read Letter

Defenders: The Anti-Government

I would be remiss in not responding to Nick Welsh’s column [Dog Got Your Tongue?] concerning the court’s ruling on the subpoena for Paul Wellman’s ... Read Letter

Not So Belle

What happened to Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday did not have to happen, and, as a veterinarian, I am frustrated and angry. ... Read Letter

Can the Happy Talk

Most of the reasons that Rep. Caps gives for supporting Barack Obama [Capps Endorses Obama]are intangible, schoolgirl crush type reasons that have no bearing in ... Read Letter

Tillers vs. Toilers

The Warriors/Warriors game the Poodle recalls [No Dogs Need Apply] might have been one of several. Between 1987 and 1991 the Carp Warriors played the ... Read Letter

Smyser’s Record: Check

Often, the person you see in campaign ads is not what you get after elected. Third District Supervisor candidate David Smyser advises us to “check ... Read Letter

Senior Living Revisited

I cannot tell you how upset I was to read what I consider to be a very biased article, written by Isabelle T. Walker in ... Read Letter

Grief and Hope

The time of year that my sister, Dana Mcpeek, disappeared is approaching. I can never adequately explain the pain that my family has endured because ... Read Letter

Sterilize the Mixed Breeds

On Tuesday, May 6, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has a chance to make a real difference in our local pet overpopulation problem. ... Read Letter

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