‘Tis the season to be traveling! “Consumers have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season: higher wages, more disposable income, and rising levels of household wealth,” says Bill Sutherland, AAA…
Opinion
The Woolsey Fire began on Thursday, Nov 8. Nov. 9, our electricity was turned off at daybreak. Along with the electricity, we lost internet, cable TV, wifi and phone service. The flow…
Ember Prevention I stopped at the Topanga Fire Station a couple of weeks ago. One of the firemen there told me that 90 percent of homes that catch fire and burn down…
I took my 87-year-old Mom the last two issues with “The Backyard Astronomer” column and she was very impressed with our newspaper in general. She read them both cover to cover. She…
A friend of mine just got kicked off Nextdoor for life. A wonderful guy and a super good neighbor. I have been researching the subject of social media censorship, so I thought…where…
The colors splay across the November sky; purples, pinks, and deep streaks of orange, as if a bit of splendid Halloween magic still lingered there in the sunset, low and close, like…
“The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ball game to…
As I write, it’s the morning after. But as you read this, more than a week will have passed, so my comments will fall somewhere between a hot take and cold leftovers.…
“What are the uniform and ordered movements, by the assumption of which the apparent movements of the planets can be accounted for?” —Plato 4th Century B.C. As our ancient ancestors gazed up…
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, gave it as a gift to the world and never profited directly from it. He made his idea open sourced…anyone could…