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Posted on June 16 at 5:03 p.m.
The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow, but also exceedingly fine. Ms. McCaw morally forfeits her title of publisher — if not her ownership — when she attempts "to weaken legal protections that are intended to secure the role of the press in a free society,” as the court specifically noted. Newspaper ownership ought to be like a public utility, and when a foolish owner who isn't a newspaper person tries to harm journalism out of petty spite and fits of pique she should be obliged to sell it (Ms. McCune is ready to buy). The real tragedy is that Santa Barbara is deprived of Tom Storke's once-proud and independent local newspaper AND we readers have to listen to all this inane crap when really important issues beg for attention.
Best — cancel your News-Suppress subscription immediately.
Posted on May 7 at 6:09 a.m.
Right on Indy, we cannot have a free press without protection of confidential sources. Deep pockets and litigation-happy owner finally bows out of one lawsuit, here's hoping McCaw settles her others ones and rehires those fine reporters she illegally fired.
Posted on July 18 at 8:28 p.m.
The fire gods now wreak their havoc on the gorgeous San Rafael Wilderness...despite the pathetic fallacy, it's still terribly sad to see the maps showing that Fish Camp, Fish Canyon, Manzana and Manzana Narrows Camps, and now White Ledge have burned. I backpacked through these beautiful riparian woodland green zones less than a month ago — my photos show green and healthy sycamores, oaks, bay, and scattered digger pines. If this fire gets to Lonnie Davis Camp and then down the south fork to the main Sisquoc River at So. Fork Cabin...it would follow east right up the entire Sisquoc Canyon to Bear, Upper Bear, and then the Dick Smith Wilderness next door.
The fire will rejuvenate the land — eventually! The digger pines and sycamores won't come back, some of the oak trees will.
Thanks to Ray Ford for these recent clearly written articles.
Posted on July 10 at 9:08 a.m.
good article which I'm reading from Germany. A Crane School colleague and I made a wonderful backpack June 16-24: Nira to 'Narrows to Lonnie Davis to Skunk to Cottonwood to Lower Bear Camp and back...tremendously beautiful as we crossed eastern end of the Hurricane Deck, and terrifically DRY...saw 15" trout gasping for nutrients in shrinking pools on upper Manzana, water as low as I've seen it in 30 years at the south Fork of the Sisquoc below Lonnie...and no humans at all for 6 days after the 'Narrows... is the fire thyat far east?
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Posted on June 25 at 6:44 a.m.
Mr Hutterer's disingenuous rationale for accepting pro-war, pro-warrantless government spying, and anti-abortion candidate McCain smacks of a smoothly written PR piece. The Museum has fallen on hard times when it has to suck up to anti-environmental Republicans for funds. It's particularly galling when McCain supports an end to the ban on drilling off our coast, and whatever Hutterer SAYS his non-profit institution is essentially supporting a political campaign. The IRS ought to look into their non-profit status. Too bad for Santa Barbara.
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