Earlier today I offered some comments on the trending controversy surrounding Dillard’s and its involvement in an upcoming Houston event staged by anti-abortion advocate Heroic Media. That article noted some parallels with last year’s dust-up involving Target and Tom Emmer, a social reactionary running for Minnesota governor.
My friend and colleague, Sara Robinson, turns out to be a devoted Dillard’s customer (as I myself have been in the past). There are lots of reasons to appreciate their style and value and my only complaint up until now was that they closed the store closest to where I live. Sara responded to the Heroic Media story by firing off a letter expressing her concerns to a Dillard’s executive. Full story »
Dillard’s operates 330 stores across 29 states, including nine here in Colorado. I have, in the past, been a Dillard’s customer, but am afraid they have now earned their way onto the growing list of places I will no longer be able to patronize in good conscience.
In August of 2010 I spent some time analyzing one of the more explosive corporate PR blunders of the year (and what a year it was – you might remember dust-ups involving Toyota and BP), Target’s inexplicable support for Tom Emmer, a rabid social conservative whose positions not only offend the humanist mind, but that also ran directly counter to Target’s own established community engagement policies. The upshot was a set of principles directing corporate giving in an age where partisan landmines seem to outnumber the cobblestones in a tony shopping district sidewalk. Full story »
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Moonlight, a male American barn owl. Moonlight was bred in captivity
for educational purposes
by Talbot Eckweiler
Part three in a five-part series.
Ava, Moonwink, Bella, Starlight: they are but a few of characters cast in Eagle Dream. Ava is a hunter; Starlight is a dancer. Moonwink has trouble keeping his eyes open, and Bella hails from across the Mississippi river.
Each has a distinct personality, a personal history. Each is a raptor, a bird of prey.
Some are rescue cases; others were bred in captivity for falconry or educational purposes. Their keeper, Mark Baker, started his chapter of raptor rehab just last year, and already he’s rescued an estimated forty birds.
When Baker rescues a bird, he does his best to release back to nature as soon as possible. “Because I have so many birds, when I release them, I like to split them up so they’re not all released in one area. Sometimes, I go to the state park area,” Baker says. Full story »
