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“If you love trains, you understand the big difference between knowing a train is due soon and actually seeing the massive engine rounding the bend. For months or even years, artificial intelligence experts have told us to prepare for the arrival of an AI that builds ever more powerful versions of itself. Well, now it’s in sight, horn blaring and ground shaking.”
Taken together, these eco-disasters make a case for the passage of Polluters Pay Climate Fund bills legislators have introduced in the State Assembly and Senate, and the U.S. House and Senate. These bills are all variations on the same theme: make the fossil fuel corporations pay for their carbon emissions. Right now, these bills are gaining traction, advancing through various state committees. Both the Democratic Club of Claremont and the Democrats of Pasadena Foothills endorsed them last month. Photo/by Dan Watson, Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Tucked into one of Mt. Baldy’s craggy nooks is Ice House Canyon, home to the long neglected and dilapidated 1921 Ice House Canyon Resort. At noon on Friday, May 23, a groundbreaking ceremony will signal a new era for the site, which is set to become California’s first and only Veteran Retreat Center and home to The Heroes Project. Photo/courtesy of The Heroes Project
“With the announcement that Salman Rushdie has decided to withdraw as keynote speaker at Claremont McKenna College’s May 17 commencement, we are reminded that the stakes of freedom of expression are not confined to faraway lands or abstract principles, but are present here and now, on our own Southern California campuses.” Photo/by Christoph Kockelmann
Nearly a week after reports that Salman Rushdie would deliver the keynote address at Claremont McKenna College’s May 17 commencement sparked outrage from students and civil rights groups, on Tuesday CMC President Hiram Chodosh announced the novelist had withdrawn from the job. Photo/by Anibal Ortiz
by Donald Gould This is the third in a three-part series of reflections on changes in the investment industry in the 25 years since I started Gould Asset Management in Claremont. Perhaps the most important trait an investor can have is humility, a lesson I’ve been taught repeatedly over the past quarter century. The good […]
What’s happening Claremont? by Andrew Alonzo | calendar@claremont-courier.com Friday, May 16 Keck Graduate Institute offers free 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. campus tours. RSVP at events.kgi.edu. Claremont Senior Computer Club hosts free drop-in technology workshops from 1 to 4:30 p.m. the first and third Fridays of the month at Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave., Claremont. The […]
Cal Poly Pomona commencements take place daily beginning Friday, May 16 through Sunday, May 18, with ceremonies at 8 a.m., noon, 4 and 7:30 p.m., except for May 16 when the third ceremony begins at 3 p.m.
By 10 a.m. Saturday, May 17, Pomona’s American Museum of Ceramic Art will have uploaded a pre-recorded awards ceremony announcing the winners of its annual juried exhibition for high school students at youtube.com/amocamuseum.
Claremont’s free and open to the public Memorial Day services at Oak Park Cemetery, 410 Sycamore Ave., Claremont, begin at 11 a.m. Monday, May 26.
Katharine Laidlaw, a strategist and Emmy-winning producer, started Monday as Pomona College’s chief communications officer.
The Jurupa Valley man charged with three counts of attempted murder after a January 23 shooting in Claremont was back in Pomona Superior Court May 8. Erik William Guevara, 33, waived a preliminary hearing setting. It was continued to June 25. Courier file photo
Congratulations to Deena Benjamin, one of a record 36 readers who correctly identified last week’s “Where am I?” as Pomona College’s Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, affectionately known by most as Little Bridges. Deena is now entered into the year-end drawing for a one-year subscription to everyone’s favorite award-winning local newspaper, the Claremont Courier. So, “Where am I” this week? Email your answer, full name, and city of residence — and suggestions for future mystery photos — to contest@claremont-courier.com for your chance to win. Courier photo/Tom Smith
“What began as a family vacation to Rome unexpectedly turned into a front row seat to history. From both the air and the ground, I witnessed newly elected Pope Leo XIV address a crowd of more than 100,000 outside the Vatican on May 8.” Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
The Pomona man facing charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm on a police officer and four other felonies pleaded not guilty Monday at his arraignment in Pomona Superior Court.
About 100 people braved triple digit temperatures at Shelton Park Saturday in a protest billed as “a rally for the Constitution.” The event included remarks from protesters, a skit commenting on what organizers say is an attack on democracy by the Trump administration, and the delivery of several petitions to the Claremont Police Department. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
What began as a family vacation to Rome turned into a front row seat to history as Courier publisher Peter Weinberger witnessed newly elected Pope Leo XIV address a crowd of more than 100,000 outside the Vatican on May 8. Full coverage with more photos will appear in this week’s print edition of the Courier, along with a special video feature at claremont-courier.com. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger