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- Story: Letters 11/2/2006 (Wednesday, November 1, 2006)
... as slow. Good management hires good people, plays fair, and enjoys mutual respe ... California Constitution to require parental consent for teens to have an abo ... a bad idea then, and it still is. Parents rightfully want to be involved in ... ; lives. But even girls with caring parents may be too scared to talk to the ...
- Story: First King of the Festival (Thursday, February 1, 2007)
... nct Ugandan accent. And I would know because, last year, I spent nearly a month i ... nct Ugandan accent. And I would know because, last year, I spent nearly a month i ... a mad dictator who killed all these people, but I really had no idea. As I get ... check my opinions on individuals who are presented to me that way from other ...
- Story: Full Text of SiCKO Q&A (Tuesday, July 10, 2007)
... are bigwigs Ron Werft and Kurt Ransohoff ... n Werft, president of Cottage Healthcare Systems, and Kurt Ransohoff, M.D., o ... ake a provocative move to try to get people talking about it.’ It’s an edito ... f the worst aspects of the US healthcare system. Walker: So what wasn’t ...
- Story: Not in Kyoto Anymore (Thursday, July 23, 2009)
... ut then see the note, which you can barely read: “I am in Las Vegas for New ... y 2, it’s cold, and the fridge is bare-bones. Welcome to America. Thi ... al students program, but these three are the core establishments, responsible ... n experience at all hours. Homestays are greatly encouraged by the directors ...
- Story: KT Tunstall Talks Touring, Posing, and Living the Dream (Thursday, May 1, 2008)
... and why she loves the West Coast. Are you in Britain? I am. We’re jus ... to the gorgeousness of this year. Because you’re touring around the world? ... good to hear that you like touring, because with such a schedule getting back on ... ing out of a bag. That’s great, because you probably have a long time coming ...
- Story: Local Heroes 2008 (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)
... amazing place to live. They included people from all walks of life: a soccer coa ... name just a few. But what they all shared in common was the willingness to do ... Heroes. The 2008 list is made up of people every bit as fabulous as our first. ... abulous as our first. We all know we are blessed to live in a place rich in s ...
- Story: “¡Ask a Mexican!” Answers Our Questions (Monday, January 21, 2008)
... ew with syndicated columnist Gustavo Arellano, who visits Carpinteria this we ... h syndicated columnist Gustavo Arellano, who visits Carpinteria this weekend ... ekend for a fundraiser. Gustavo Arellano writes the nationally syndicate ... r see artscarp.org for more info. Arellano spent some time last week to ch ...
- Story: Arnold Revs Up The People's Machine (Thursday, September 21, 2006)
... s away, Mathews’s book — The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger a ... #8217;s book — The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegg ... California elementary schools knows, are supposed to be the people’s t ... hools knows, are supposed to be the people’s tools to counter the power o ...
- Story: Paul Farmer and Thomas Tighe Discuss the Practical Ways to Cure the World (Thursday, October 11, 2007)
... r in raising the standards of healthcare for patients in need from Africa to ... training a new generation of healthcare providers to consider infectious dis ... on Theatre to discuss the book and share some of his views on the interplay b ... right? Well, I don’t think there are any inaccuracies in the book. What T ...
- Story: Coming Out Stories (Sunday, October 5, 2008)
... stant discovery—of oneself and the people around us—but the epitome of an on ... e Veggie Pot Pie “Okay, so when are we having veggie pot pie?” my frie ... ction was on the scale—was it good because it wasn’t a big deal, or was it ba ... t wasn’t a big deal, or was it bad because she didn’t treat it with enough re ...
- Story: Letters from a Santa Barbara Soldier in Iraq (Thursday, June 28, 2007)
... m a tight fit in my truck, and as we are driving down the road, I find myself ... self very conscious of where my arms are. These new devices always take off s ... e the knee and an arm. So, there you are, driving down the road, trying to fi ... m a tight fit in my truck, and as we are driving down the road, I find myself ...
- Story: Talking with Jack Johnson (Tuesday, February 5, 2008)
... ew records with Pro Tools, and there are lots of positives about that as well ... ut doing it on an analog tape, there are certain limitations that were nice. ... at the screen and see if your beats are matching up. With analog, it’s ... pulling and pinching sounds nice. Are people liking it? I don’t know ...
- Story: California's Prop. 8 Defeat: A Bungled Campaign (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
... a double-digit lead to predictable scare tactics. Independent polls from both ... ducted by Equality California (ECQA) are said to have provided a different pi ... of the proposition. Worse, there appeared to be no effective Black or Latino ... on hurts. Self esteem and acceptance are vital to the success of kids like me ...
- Story: The Outsiders (Tuesday, October 13, 2009)
... listically, their chances of victory are, at most, remote. These are the outs ... victory are, at most, remote. These are the outsiders. But they bring to the ... of the body politic. This year there are far more outsiders than usual. But t ... more outsiders than usual. But there are more candidates — 18 in all — th ...
- Story: SBIFF 2008 Slate (Monday, December 31, 2007)
... the Lobero Theater. Christie will share a dialogue with Leonard Maltin about ... e. Over the length of Christie’s career it has been said that she is “th ... absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will hopele ... the Closing Night festivities, which are sponsored by The Santa Barbara Indep ...
- Story: News-Press Coverage | Letters (Thursday, July 13, 2006)
... r’s reporters and editors. Because of my positive experiences with the ... 20;editorial differences,” apparently your euphemism for objections to ... of the phrase. Editorial differences are what I had with your owner when she ... re a healthy alternative, as if poor people didn’t eat enough beans and r ...
- Story: Burgers to Bistro, BOSB'06 (Thursday, October 19, 2006)
... 7;t know what our secret is. I know people dig our honey mustard. They like our ... t is preserving that essence di Panino,” he said, smiling. Finalist I ... owner and husband, Mark Brouillard, are perhaps even happier with the cuisin ... even happier with the cuisine they are creating there with Jason Banks, che ...
- Story: Voices of the Evacuated (Friday, November 14, 2008)
... NUOUSLY: Accounts from witnesses and people most affected by the Tea Fire. W ... which addresses have burned, reports are that more than 2,500 people have eva ... ed, reports are that more than 2,500 people have evacuated, with more than 200 h ... those of their friends and neighbors are still standing. The Independent w ...
- Story: Thumbs Up for Santa Barbara News Room (Wednesday, April 4, 2007)
... even if some of the parties involved are once again active competition. Don ... ote that current News-Press staffers aren’t, in fact, blocked off from even ... om/2007/04/04 P.S. Craig and Sara are both hot -- in different web divisio ... From Economist.com "If newspapers are dead, the corpses are oddly popular" ...
- Story: Reading, Writing, and Original Sin (Thursday, May 7, 2009)
... If you don’t believe in Jesus, you are going to hell.” Their teacher o ... she asked everyone to pay attention. People from different religious backgrounds ... in school?!” she began to cry. “Because that’s what they taught me here! ... of the Montecito social mafia. The parent body includes Catholics, Unitarian ...
- Story: Bishop Tutu Calls for a Return to Human Rights (Thursday, November 3, 2005)
... dvocacy for repressed and subjected peoples everywhere. He is currently in the ... t of 70,000 children. Tutu and Havel are calling for the UN to restore democ ... lease of all political prisoners who are incarcerated because of their views ... ical prisoners who are incarcerated because of their views. And try to have a st ...
- Story: Taxi Timebomb (Thursday, July 24, 2008)
... he law by pulling over in a red zone because there’s nowhere legal to pick up p ... he cabs scatter. This time, there are no cops, and Honigman’s maneuver n ... pulling over again, and then again, because one of the girls feels like puking. ... off the streets, assuring vulnerable people find their way home — is prett ...
- Story: Letters 8-3-2006 (Thursday, August 3, 2006)
... and rightly so. “… [B]eginnings are important,” she wrote, adding that ... htly so. “… [B]eginnings are important,” she wrote, adding ... West Bank. The truth is that there are many important “beginningsR ... recent massacre of children at Qana) are completely unacceptable and deserve ...
- Story: Letters 11-9-2006 (Thursday, November 9, 2006)
... n crime and terrorists. The results are costly and ineffective. Enter the P ... -solving modalities with skills that are effective at treating root causes o ... study of violence, Williamson said, are turning to an epidemiological model. ... d please write and call our Congress people to sign on to H.R. 3760 and S. 1756 ...
- Story: First King of the Festival (Thursday, February 1, 2007)
... ct Ugandan accent. And I would know because, last year, I spent nearly a month i ... o interviewed who. And I picked you because I was in Uganda last February and Ma ... nd the rebels]. And it’s crazy because—well, some of the Acholis [th ... cs, but they go about dictating how people should live. And it deals with the m ...
- Story: Letters 5-25-2006 (Thursday, May 25, 2006)
... iliation. I am voting for Dan Secord because I want an experienced leader who has ... liation. I am voting for Dan Secord because I want an experienced leader who has ... n The Independent, offends the very people with whom she’ll have to negot ... ave to work with some of these very people she has insulted. I don’t thi ...
- Story: Santa Barbara Gangsters (Thursday, July 7, 2005)
... in Mexican heritage was peaking with people, laughter, music, and atmosphere. ... ture about various services - healthcare, recreation, and immigration law - a ... ened to Raya and Ortiz, both of whom are now in college. Raya is from the ... d accentuates his full deltoids that are decorated with names of deceased fri ...
- Story: 2007 Surf Issue - Surf Season Returns (Thursday, October 25, 2007)
... fire the stoke ’cause surfing days are here again. Scott Bull Whe ... been a certifiable tour de force in area coastal preservation issues, a regu ... For almost 15 years, the man most people know simply as “Scotty” called I ... side setting — home. It was a rare day that Bull didn’t ride his bike ...
- Story: Aaron Belkin Explains Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Wednesday, June 10, 2009)
... country goes out of its way to fire people just because of who they are. Whethe ... s out of its way to fire people just because of who they are. Whether you’re ta ... fire people just because of who they are. Whether you’re talking about nati ... ional security or citizenship, there are a number of reasons why this is an i ...
- Story: Bad Eyes, Good Medicine, and a Guy Named Bob (Thursday, March 30, 2006)
... halos hovered in his eyes. Due to a rare type of glaucoma that began in his y ... would be surrounded by halos. Halos are the common symptom of severe though ... halos hovered in his eyes. Due to a rare type of glaucoma that began in his ... would be surrounded by halos. Halos are the common symptom of severe though ...
- Story: Executive Privileges (Thursday, February 5, 2009)
... by 5th District Supervisor Joe Centeno, but the old board majority wouldn’ ... he vast majority of the more than 60 people contacted for this story — has ... the board is ready to do something, because just last week, Farr and 2nd Distric ... Who Is Mr. Brown? “I was a career city-management type,” explained ...
- Story: Good Night & Good Luck (Thursday, April 27, 2006)
... ing songs and matching beats. Gone are the days of the raves —& ... on pacifiers in public; it exposed people to that form of music at an early a ... y in the room from which the music blared, who’d lugged his setup all ... ties in I.V. and the “For the People” outdoor rave-style parties th ...
- Story: The Price of Redemption (Thursday, June 7, 2007)
... se I don't know well, I feel just as bad. Have they themselves helped damage t ... If so, do they automatically assume, because of one simple word, that I am in the ... ools so they can be surrounded by “people like them,” will I one day wake up ... ivileged, undereducated, and unloved people of the world? And aren’t those the ...
- Story: Letters 12-14-2006 (Thursday, December 14, 2006)
... at “Cubans live longer … because they drink lots of coffee, smoke a ... worldwide, killing about 5 million people a year, 430,000 of them Americans. ... 8217; relentless campaign to addict people to tobacco, by 2020 that figure will ... 8221; article matches a study of 54 people in rural Cuba who reached 100 years ...
- Story: The Ecology of Fire (Thursday, June 28, 2007)
... put, it is chaparral plus wind plus people. As I sit here at my computer writi ... er-dry brush is ready to explode. A careless fire in the Santa Ynez drainage ... Fourth of July celebration could compare with this,” the Santa Barbara Morn ... put, it is chaparral plus wind plus people. As I sit here at my computer writi ...
- Story: Feds Add Complaints Against News-Press (Monday, April 9, 2007)
... sed with the news. He explained, "We are solemnly pleased the NLRB's General ... he Santa Barbara News-Press's agents are trampling on its employees' rights, ... ask questions, if at all, later. We are hopeful that the NLRB will soon deci ... urrent unfair labor practice charges are: 1) the eight "retaliatory" firin ...
- Story: Monkeys He Will Make of Men (Tuesday, September 19, 2006)
... Days album went platinum. Those days are the subject of the recent DVD docume ... ldn’t do that just using other people’s music. That’s how I gr ... 220;Hyphy” movement in the Bay Area? I musn’t have been paying at ... ’t have been paying attention, because all of the sudden E-40 was back on t ...
- Story: State’s Greenest Gurus Converge on UCSB (Thursday, June 25, 2009)
... fornia’s colleges and universities are going green at breakneck speeds and, ... rs, faculty, and staff, the students are truly leading the way. That was t ... d is now a UC Regent. “Each of you are leaders in the modern environmental ... any gathering of its sort, Newport shared that he had been told to keep his t ...
- Story: In Search of a Homeland (Thursday, May 4, 2006)
... are a Middle Eastern people, 30 million ... people, 30 million strong, who share a comm ... ern people, 30 million strong, who share a common language and culture. They ... eir more powerful neighbors. They are a Middle Eastern people, 30 million ...
- Story: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity (Monday, October 19, 2009)
... y infinite number of ways that women are brutalized around the world with ins ... it, and to the strength that so many people have. People often ask me if it’s ... e strength that so many people have. People often ask me if it’s depressing to ... s, you encounter these extraordinary people. Their uplifting accounts tend to re ...
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