Opinion
by John Pixley I haven’t thought of Frank in many years. Decades really. I don’t know what he’s doing now. He could be teaching sociology at a college or history at a high school. He could be an administrator at a nonprofit. Or he could be working at a market or store or doing janitorial […]
by Mark Wiley As Easter quickly approaches, I find myself thinking about Easter eggs. I confess the symbolism of Easter eggs had never worked well for me. It is confusing. The Easter Bunny delivering eggs seems odd. After all, bunnies do not lay eggs. Why is the bunny delivering something that comes from chickens? Did […]
Net neutrality protects everyone Dear Editor: Hayden Lening (COURIER, March 6) complains about the recent FCC regulation that supports “net neutrality.” In fact, he completely misunderstands what the issue is. Mr. Lening claims that the regulation is depriving us of some liberty we previously enjoyed. In fact, the regulation is designed to maintain the status […]
by Debbie Carini In the movie A Christmas Story, there’s a wonderful scene where the family goes to a Chinese restaurant for Christmas dinner because their feast has been ruined by a neighbor’s pack of marauding dogs. At the Chop Suey Palace, they experience Chinese “turkey,” a dish widely-known in the United States as Peking […]
Shenandoah tree historyDear Editor:Last week, a letter from Dennis Vlasich to Claremont City Manager Tony Ramos was printed in your paper. His basic objection was that the city was planning to plant a Chitalpa (Chinese Flame Tree) on the property located at the corner of Shenandoah Drive and Gettysburg Circle. I tend to agree that […]
by John Pixley Okay, I get it now. I now get it why there are all those retired people with New York and Boston accents living in Florida. And the story about people on the east coast getting up late after New Year’s Eve and turning on the television to watch the fantastically bright and […]
by Mellissa Martinez Last week, I received a letter that posed some very specific language questions. Thank you Linda and Paul for reading the column and also for giving me some topics to tackle for this month’s article. Given that graduation is just around the corner for some, let’s begin with your first question: Where […]
As it was Dear Editor: John Pixley’s “Claremont, as it was, as it is,” published February 20, was a most interesting, even captivating, account. As one who loved Claremont and moved away for 16 long years (to Ohio, no less), then had the happy opportunity to return for 11 years now, John’s account helped fill […]
by Peter Weinberger They say your kids grow up quickly. They say the time will fly by. They say as a teen, she will lose her mind. They say he will do stupid things. You know what? They were right. I am the father of two adult children. My son Matt is 24 and discovering […]
Economic inequality forum Dear Editor: The American Institute for Progressive Democracy (www.taipd.org) is a think-tank based in Claremont that examines and does public education about important issues of public policy that have major effects on everyone. In recent years, TAIPD has organized forums open to the public on such topics as healthcare insurance, including the […]
by John Pixley I think of it nearly every time I pass through the intersection of Bonita Avenue and Indian Hill Boulevard. Still, after all this time, I think of the McIntyres living in the big house on the southwest corner. It was before I knew them, when Donald came here from Scotland with his […]
by Evaggelos Vallianatos Something remarkable happened during a lively meeting of the Claremont City Council on January 27. Trees, all 24,000 of them, and pesticides were at the heart of the technical-political discourse. City staff recited a lengthy report on the conventional care of trees, which included the use of poisonous pesticides. Then the public, […]
Where are the candidates? Dear Editor: Let me get this out of the way right now: I have no issues with our current city council members. They are not the reason for this letter. It’s about the representation on the council itself that I wish to comment. I found it somewhat disheartening that with three […]
by Debbie Carini When I was seven years old, I gambled for the very first time. It was at a church benefit for Sacred Heart School where I spent the first three years of my K-12 education under the tutelage of fully-habited nuns. I’m not sure how much I actually learned in those pre-Vatican II […]
by John Pixley There were people who wrote letters saying that the college students who gathered in front of city hall a couple months ago to protest the killings of unarmed black men by police in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City—as well protesting the grand juries opting not to indict the officers in a […]
Pitbull attack must be handled [Editor’s note: The following letter was addressed to the Inland Valley Humane Society, with copies forwarded to the Claremont City Council. —KD] Dear Humane Society: What is “humane” about allowing a vicious dog, which has attacked and killed a smaller dog, another chance? A chance for what? To kill another […]