THE GOOD MONEY TRAIL Dear Editor, I just love doing this column! And…..when I got the checks I was so happy. I am sending the money from the column to my friend…
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What’s all this talk about the vulnerability of “The Grid?” Is it really so serious? We, in Topanga, are not usually fazed when the electricity goes out, usually due to rain, wind…
The city of Claremont, my hometown through middle school and most of my college years, recently held a memorial service for Janis Weinberger, who with her husband Martin, owned and published for…
Excellent! Dear Editor: It feels awkward to say because I cherished the old Messenger but I do have to say that the new Messenger Mountain News is better, more informative and…
In a jaded sense of certainty derived from living, lo these many years upon this plane, I think I know everything. I know the seasons will change…somewhat. I know the bill…
I don’t go to hospitals–at all. Nineteen years ago, in the middle of trying to push my nine-and-a-half pound son out of my only slightly larger body, I asked my midwife if…
Topangan Ishan Shapiro has created a revolutionary summer program to prepare young people from 13-18 for their futures offering 21st Century Survival Skills For 21st Century Humans. Most of us have no…
Our mountains lost a great friend last week with the passing of Tony Beilenson, the former congressman, state senator and assemblyman. I learned the sad news—as I so often have—from a news…
She comes slowly down the street like a shadow moving through the night, there at the dim edge of the affluent Palisades. The darling daughter requested a Subway Sandwich (dubious, I know)…
The world is run on algorithms exponentially more each day… financial services, medical systems, communications conglomerates, educational platforms, internet marketing, social media, journalism, on and on. My Name is Al Gorithm…