Opinion
“Thank God for high school theater.” I kept thinking this – and made the comment to a couple friends – after seeing Claremont High School’s production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella earlier this month.
Today, as I walk through town, I notice people spending lots of time caressing their devices. They give more attention to their cell phones, tablets, and laptops than the person sitting across from them.
Through the long months and years of the COVID-19 pandemic we all longed for the days when things would return to normal.
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com People my age — I’m 58 — tend to yammer on about how much better their lives were before things were so expensive, politics were […]
by Steve Harrison Pride is a tricky thing. Of course, we want our children to grow up proud of themselves and their family. Pride helps us navigate our existence in […]
by Matt Weinberger When you visit downtown Claremont, you can’t help but notice that large, empty brown plot of land. Fenced in to prevent access, it sits there languishing […]
It seems like Claremont native Amanda Andrade-Rhoades was always destined to be a reporter. And after years of perseverance in the field, the 28-year-old freelance photojournalist recently became a Pulitzer Prize winner thanks to her contribution in the Washington Post’s coverage of the January 2021 insurrection. Photo by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post
WHEREAS decades of neglect and inattention to constructing affordable housing have bred a housing crisis of enormous proportions, contributing to a spike in homelessness, a generation of perpetual renters, and […]
Each time an affordable housing plan, or homeless shelter project, or permanent supportive housing development is proposed, the advocates for the no-growth/no change coalition, joins with our “not in my […]
by Ben Boulton On the day that two keynote speakers at the Scripps College graduation ceremonies advocated for police and prison abolition, to enthusiastic applause, a racist with a gun […]
On Monday, May 16, at the City of Claremont’s Human Trafficking Symposium at the Hughes Center, residents showed up en masse and overwhelmingly responded to a growing cancer that must be eradicated at the South Claremont corridor of the I-10 Freeway and Indian Hill Boulevard.
Next Saturday my partner of 10 years and I will be married. Again. It will be the third time each of us has taken a whack at matrimony.
We, the current and active members of the Inland Valley Working Group for Mideast Peace, express our deepest condolences to the family of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh upon her recent sudden and tragic demise during an Israeli military action in the Jenin refugee camp.
Each year of my life I continue to expand, and I’m not talking about my hips. Although they’ve expanded, too but only a little. My mind, body and spirit consciousness have expanded a lot more.
I love my grass. I hesitate saying that. Of course, I mean the green stuff that surrounds my home and was part of the California dream for decades.
by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-courier.com In some respects, I’m still trying to process exactly what happened. What could have been seen as a positive move for Claremont in hiring Jim […]