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No Kings 
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Amusement Piers 
Suzanne Guldimann, June 13, 2025 0  
A pier is a folly, a highway to nowhere. Whether lined with fishermen or filled with the cries and clattering of a roller coaster, whether thick with the aromas of hotdogs and fries or freshly gutted fish, they are...
California Mustard: Beauty or Bane 
Suzanne Guldimann, May 30, 2025 0  
A beautiful but unwelcome tide of golden blossom is sweeping over the Santa Monica Mountains this year. The late—and light—rainy season has resulted in few native wildflowers but an abundance of mustard, an opportunistic invasive that thrives even in...
TREES IN BLOOM 
Suzanne Guldimann, April 18, 2025 0  
This isn’t one of those springs when the hills are covered in a vivid profusion of wildflowers. The Santa Monica Mountains have received just a fraction of the average rainfall for the season. Hot weather is already arriving, drying...
SAVING THE COAST 
Suzanne Guldimann, April 4, 2025 0  
The Trump Administration is taking aim at the California Coastal Commission, and according to a recent New York Times article, the President may have an ally in California Governor Gavin Newsom. The Times headline states “Trump and Newsom Find...
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Diary of a Fire 

TNT Staff, February 7, 2025 0 15 min read  
Jan. 31, 2025 – three weeks and four days after the Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires started. As I sit on the couch, watching tennis from Australia, my mind keeps wandering back to what happened around three weeks ago....
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Community Corner 

TNT Staff, February 7, 2025 0 9 min read  
A letter from Willow Geer, Theatricum Botanicum As I sit here, miraculously back home, surrounded by suitcases I am reticent to unpack, I try to wrap my mind around the past two weeks.  A fever dream of evacuating with...
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LA ON FIRE 

Suzanne Guldimann, January 24, 2025 0 10 min read  
Once the fires began on January 7, stopping them was impossible. Hurricane-force winds and extreme dry conditions with single-digit humidity created a tsunami of flame, a towering wave of destruction that destroyed everything in its path and was carried...
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ON THE GROUND 

Urs Baur, January 24, 2025 1 5 min read  
Urs Baur submits his experience “Too Close For Comfort: A Community’s Resilience in the Face of Fire” I’ve lived in this canyon for 25 years, and while fires are a constant threat, they’re never routine. Each event carries its...