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2025 Here We Come! 
December 27, 2024 0 41  
Travels on Pacific Coast Highway 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 27, 2024 0  
The local stretch of Pacific Coast Highway was constantly in the news in 2024, as state and local officials, residents, commuters and other stakeholders grappled with safety on this increasingly deadly road. TNT Editor Suzanne Guldimann’s feature on the...
Christmas in Topanga, 1942 
Suzanne Guldimann, December 13, 2024 0  
The Coastwatchers, TNT’s original fiction series set in Malibu during WWII, concludes in this issue. Our story began in December, 1941, just after the United States entered WWII, and ends on Christmas, 1942. Coastwatchers focuses on the experiences of...
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 29, 2024 0  
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
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SMC Classes 

TNT Staff, August 9, 2024 0 2 min read  
Free Online SMC Sustainability Certificates & Courses Sustainability Classes and Certificates for your current career or to help you onto a new green path. Santa Monica College delivers high quality, relevant education, and training designed to give you the...
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A Wee Bit Coin 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 26, 2024 0 4 min read  
Bitcoin? Real estate tokenization? Nope. This real estate token predates the current craze for blockchain assets by a hundred years. This coin was struck by the promoters of the Sylvia Park Development Company in 1924, and it offered the...
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The Last Word 

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 26, 2024 0 11 min read  
We have been reminded lately— on more than one occasion—that the protections afforded by the US Constitution’s system of checks and balances are vulnerable to manipulation by bad actors. This is perhaps most threatening when the singular chief executive,...
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Jody Lyle – Superintendent 

TNT Staff, July 26, 2024 0 2 min read  
The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Jody Lyle as the new permanent superintendent of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) beginning July 28, 2024. Lyle first started working with the NPS in 1992 as an environmental educator...