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FOOL’S GOLD 
May 30, 2025 0 79  
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...
Mission Impossible U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
Suzanne Guldimann, March 21, 2025 0  
If it’s dangerous, difficult, or downright impossible and it involves American infrastructure, disaster recovery, or water resources, there’s a good chance the US Army Corps of Engineers will be the ones called in to deal with it, sometimes with...
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Endangered Species Act Restored 

TNT Staff, July 15, 2022 0 2 min read  
A Federal Judge has restored endangered species act protections that were seriously weakened by the Trump Administration. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of the coalition of conservation and animal welfare organizations...
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Soul Colors 

TNT Staff, July 15, 2022 1 1 min read  
Born in Zimbabwe, Africa, Michael Chinyamurindi, has lived in Topanga Canyon for two decades. “Art has always been present in my environment! Creativity is the Poor Man’s Las Vegas. The only Classical Training I have is as an Actor,...
E-Issues

Summer in July 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 1, 2022 0 4 min read  
Do we really live in a country where rapists are valued more than the women they assault? Where a handful of extremists with an almost non-existent understanding of human biology have the power to strip millions of women of...
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Play Ball! 

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 1, 2022 2 10 min read  
I recently revisited one of the finest baseball books of all time: George Will’s Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990). I offer as evidence the book’s ability to stir in me some early baseball-esque memories. When I...