Opinion
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.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The Angry Poodle grills up the lawsuit that the Santa Barbara News-Press filed against The Indy, which was settled ... Read story.
I’ll be sending a get-well card to members of the Carpinteria School Board. What else can you do for ... Read story.
Barney has the skinny on surveillance cameras and showdowns. Read story.
When it comes to jettisoning Native American imagery at Carpinteria High School, a backlash against the backlash seems to ... Read story.
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.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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
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
The People’s Protest
A little over two weeks ago, I received a cryptic message from a friend in Tibet: “Things are tense. The government is cracking down.” Read story.
By José Ignacio Cabezón
Thursday, April 3, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Per the interview with James Q.Wilson [Red, White, and Better]. Tens of millions of Americans are worrying day and night about health care. Many are ... Read Letter
The reason that slow growth and pro-growth seem mixed up on the building height issue [No Building Height Ordinance—Yet, April 24] is that high density ... Read Letter
Thank you and writer Darian Bleecher for bringing the future of arts funding to the attention of the Independent's readers [County Arts Commission Considers the ... Read Letter
The UCSB Vietnam War class is no longer what it was under Walter Capps [What Would Walter Do? April 10]. If you look at the ... Read Letter
Congratulations to the Independent for featuring the brilliant article by Ethan Stewart [Greka’s Monkey Business, April 17] outlining the multitude of environmental atrocities committed by ... Read Letter
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