LETTERS

Thank you for making The Argonaut a better paper Editor:

The Argonaut has come into the 21st century! Thank you for not making it so much about Santa Monica. Thank you for making the cover articles so much more appealing and eye-catching. Thank you for making the articles more relatable and reader-friendly... something for everyone. Also, thank you for adding coupons! A real treat. I have noticed the change since the editorial department shakeup. I am sure there is more to it than that. I truly look forward each week to seeing it. This is just an in-house thank you. Oh, and another thing is I like the fact that there are fewer or no letters to the editor. They got so long and caustic, nothing we need in our lives now. Here’s to a job well done! Marilyn Allen

A longtime Westside resident

MDR is not excluded from what’s happening in many cities Editor:

Marina del Rey is not excluded from trash dumped at a parking lot off Glencoe Avenue across from AMC Dine-In Theater. The picture shows tin cosmetic racks striped of merchandise such as lipstick, nail polish and makeup. How they got to this location no one will ever know, but each day more trash gets piled up. I am able to have the trash reported to LA Sanitation Center for pick-up, but how do I report a woman sleeping by the doorway on the landing of my building, which I experienced earlier this week? Her personal belongings she collected in life are parked beside her in a shopping cart and her toiletries are in her bathroom, which are the bushes beside her. I can have trash and the stolen racks collected and disappear, but for the images of the homeless population I face every day, they aren’t disappearing. We must make it better. Leslie Michele Clarke Marina del Rey

Re: Ecological gem Editor:

Thank you for your article, but many important facts were left out of the piece. The proponents of the Ballona Wetlands restoration project have been claiming since 2004 that this wetland will die if it isn’t restored, but that is not what has happened. Instead, in the last approximately 20 years, more endangered and protected species have returned to the wetlands. Nature heals itself! The wetlands may need a little tender loving care along the way; for example, removing invasives, but that would cost a fraction of the $200 million price tag estimated for this project. If this project moves forward, it will take 10 years to complete, lower the soil to bring in salt water (changing the brackish mixed wetland to predominantly saltwater), and unsequester carbon by digging up and moving 3 million cubic yards of soil, destroying grasslands, shrublands and all green flora currently living there. We are in a climate emergency and the last thing we should be talking about is a lengthy climate-impacting industrial bulldozing project. We can no longer conduct business as usual and must try to rethink the old paradigm. A nature-based solution means a gentle restoration.

Wendy-Sue Rosen Los Angeles

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