Letters

Letters – April 19, 2019

Dear Topanga Community Stakeholders, Please join fellow Canyon parents at Topanga Elementary School for the upcoming Leadership Council meeting on Tuesday, April 23 at 1:45 pm to learn about a developing proposal to bring a…

Letters – April 5, 2019

Copper Landline Success Dear Editor, After five months of fighting with Frontier, I was finally able to get a copper landline installed at my house. I know there are many others in…

Letters – March 22, 2019

We Hear You I really appreciate the Messenger Mountain News’ prominent coverage of the Listening Session [at King Gillette Ranch on March 3]. They were very important for the County’s information-gathering and…

Why We Walked Out

Chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, fossil fuels have got to go,” we hoisted twelve garbage bags full of trash and headed back towards school. The morning had started out like any other:…

Restorative Justice

The first week of kindergarten, a little boy came home ecstatic about the goodie bag prize he’d received from his teacher. When his mom asked if every child got a prize, his…

Let Them Eat Electric Cake

I look around my home and do not see a single human object not sourced, in some way, by carbon combustion. The glasses on my face, fueled by the coffee in me,…

Letters – March 8, 2019

Dear Editor, After following the Woolsey fire listening sessions, what I find the most illuminating is hearing what Malibu experienced since someday that will be Topanga. It is sobering to hear that,…

Letters – January 25, 2019

Dear Editor: I really enjoyed the letters from Paula LaBrot and Andrea Ehrgot [Elliott] and their expressions of deep feeling for the land, Paula noting its renewal post-fire, and Andrea the depredations…

Beginning Again

Life is beginning again in our mountains. Miriam Geer and I drove the entire mountain highway from Yerba Buena Highway to Mulholland Highway to home. What we saw! The scope of the…

Letters – January 11, 2019

A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” —The Declaration of Independence I was infuriated,…