Opinion
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 massacred 10 people in Buffalo, New York, including a retired cop attempting to stop the carnage. So, professors Mark Golub (convocation speaker) and Andrea Ritchie […]
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 Elsasser back, turned into a circus of pointing fingers, upset residents, and a school board that simply ignored any opportunity for transparency with the public. […]
Max, our four-year-old, long-haired, miniature dachshund rules the roost. It was love at first sight when I found him four years ago on a website up in Prunedale a suburb of Salinas not far from Carmel.
Since December, U.S. long-term interest rates have marched steadily upward, the result of a strong economy and Federal Reserve monetary tightening to combat inflation.
Don’t say I didn’t say so. In about five years, there will be a store in Upland. Or Pomona. Or Ontario. Just not in Claremont. But it will be called the Claremont Green Stop.
I’ve been thinking a lot about safety. We all want it. COVID has made it more of a feverish topic.
As a second-year student at Pomona College, over half of my “college experience” took place in the vicinity of the room I grew up in, staring endlessly at computer screens while aimlessly taking my first college classes during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A lot has happened in the City of Trees since pandemic restrictions have been relaxed, as all of us attempt to get back to some sort of normal. Our world screeched to a halt and we are still feeling the effects.
Adulting can be hard, even at 65. I find myself in the midst of parenting without any experience and, to make it more treacherous, I’m parenting my 89-year-old mother.
When I was a little girl and someone asked me my age, I smiled big, blurted out my age and held up my little fingers to show my age.
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com Climate change has been a hot topic for so long now, that the majority of Americans recognize the need to lower our carbon footprint. While we still argue exactly how and what needs to be done, most agree climate change creates weather anomalies, which cause enormous damage to the earth […]