By DANIEL CHUDY, NICK DEMKO, and TYLER HALL LETTER TO THE EDITOR You walk into Bartels and as you walk down the stairs the first thing that hits you is the smell, which is kind of like rotten eggs...

From The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman. It's one of the bigger pieces of trash...