Opinion
by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-courier.com I’m quite pleased to announce that Mick Rhodes, beginning immediately, is the COURIER’s new editor. As avid COURIER readers, I know you are familiar with Mick’s award-winning journalism. Mick is the seventh COURIER editor in our 114-year history. Though he will be taking the editor reins, that does not mean […]
Once again at its June 28 meeting, a decision was rendered by a majority of our city council that embodies preservation of the status quo over the legal and moral obligation to house the unhoused.
Good morning COURIER readers. It’s my honor and pleasure to write to you today, for the first time, from the editor’s desk.
by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-courier.com Transparency is a term that is tossed about so often it can have different meanings depending on who you talk to. For the nonprofit COURIER, it pretty much means everything is an open book. But transparency also means making it clear to readers whose voice is behind an opinion or […]
In last week’s COURIER, former mayor Larry Schroeder tried to explain how Claremont’s large CALPERS pension debt will be paid in full by the year 2045.
by John Neiuber It has been a tough several years for the trees that have given us the designation of the City of Trees. In 2014 and 2015 the drought saw many street and private trees threatened and suffer. The city began turf reduction programs and homeowners either eliminated or reduced the coverage of lawns […]
Reaction among local religious leaders to the United States Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is, as one might expect, varied. COURIER photos/Matt Weinberger
“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 a literal blood sport, and our kids played outside joyously, in the dirt, with a rock, a tin can, and a half-roll of electrical tape. […]
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 the world, helps us keep our balance, and helps us feel happy, secure, and okay about ourselves. Dignity, self-respect and self-worth should be denied to […]
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 as hundreds of cars go by every day. Once the Village West Project, it was going to be the next big development for downtown. Almost […]
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 a large, vulnerable population of renters at-risk of becoming homeless themselves as rising housing costs outpace wage increases; WHEREAS, as a result of this neglect […]
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 city” neighbors, to deter our City Council from fulfilling our Community’s moral and legal obligations to shelter the homeless; provide permanent supportive housing for our […]