Opinion
Making the Gold Line golder Dear Editor: As a student without a car, I utilize public transportation to explore places in LA County and would like to share my perspective on the Metro Gold Line construction. First, Metro should end the line at Pomona instead of Montclair. Overlapping the Pomona to Montclair stretch that Metrolink […]
Over the course of our lifetimes, most of us witness significant change in the world around us. In the late 1800s, travel across the country became more accessible with the completion of the transcontinental railway; in the first half of the 1900s, electric grids connected houses and telephones made communication easier. In second part of […]
Rationale or magical thinking? Dear Editor: Matt Magilike’s Readers’ Comment in the January 19 edition of the COURIER clearly pointed out a significant flaw in the city council recommendation of a general obligation bond to fund the new police station. The council has not presented rationale arguments stipulating why commercial property owners get a tax […]
Resolutions, resolutions…ah, the dreaded New Year’s resolutions through which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve his or her life. Every year, my weight-loss, exercise, reading Moby Dick, learning-how-to-blow-glass resolutions pile up like the packing peanuts that cradled many of the Christmas gifts we […]
Tis the season Dear Editor: Last month, Republicans in Congress delivered a big, sparkly, $1.5 trillion Christmas gift to businesses. At the same time, they filled the stockings of many individuals with coal. Big, beautiful lumps of clean coal from West Virginia, of course. Not to be outdone, the Claremont city council, in recommending a […]
As I write this, exactly one year ago tonight, January 8—right now, in fact—I was holding my mother’s hand in her bedroom. Her cancer had recurred in August. She didn’t want chemo-therapy. She just wanted to be comfortable, and out of pain. As her heartbeat gradually slowed over those few hours, I told her how […]
Paying for police Dear Editor: In his letter published January 5, Tony Nelipovich asks, “Does Claremont need its own police department?” I do not recall this coming up for consideration at any time over the past years, while the cost of a new police station was being considered and debated. The Los Angeles County Fire […]
Rev. Mark Wiley, Claremont United Methodist Church We are well into the new year. But they left their Christmas lights on. They were the only house in the neighborhood with lights still twinkling. Well, several neighborhoods really. Maybe even the last Christmas lights in Claremont. Most homes were dark. Most folks had taken down […]
I grew up in an interesting household. Until I was 10 years old I lived alone with my mother, who was half Jewish (mother’s side) and half Italian Catholic (father’s side). My father had moved to New York. My mother remarried when I was 10 and we moved from Hollywood to the San Fernando Valley. […]
Paying for police Dear Editor: Does Claremont need its own police department? The Claremont Police Department is the largest expense category in the city’s annual budget. Claremont spends more than 50 percent of its annual income to fund police, and the amount keeps growing. The CPD has hired more staff and acquired more equipment. The […]
By Peter Weinberger I think most of us can agree we have a nation divided in many ways. But on the local level, Claremont continues to prosper, with engaged residents willing to get involved to strengthen our community. People actually care and want to help. Of course that doesn’t mean Claremonters agree all the time. […]
by Peter Coye and Freeman Allen As we know, the Chinese government is extremely interested in the future of renewable energy and has put enormous emphasis on support for the solar cell industry in China and its competitive advantage around the world. In fact, right now, three out of every five solar panels in […]
Arts funding in CUSD Dear Editor: We appreciate the opportunity to explain funding for arts and other programs, which were raised in a December 15 letter to the editor. Our intent is to ensure that the community understands that the board of education and staff of the Claremont Unified School District value educating the whole […]
Trusting LA Metro [The following letter was addressed to LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis, LA Metro Board, Claremont City Council and Claremont City Manager, with a copy forwarded for publication. —KD] Dear Editor: Please sustain our trust in LA Metro by keeping the Metrolink Station at the hub of the Claremont Village. Along with an […]
Every year around this time, the gluttony of the holidays in December (new toys, clothes, electronics) is followed by the desire to start anew in January – to rid oneself of useless exercise equipment (somehow that just immediately jumps to mind), bread makers and Chia Pets. This year, the word “collusion” is particularly prominent in […]
Politics in Claremont Dear Editor: It’s an odd time to be a politically centrist millennial. Several of my peers and I find ourselves disheartened and discouraged by not only the recent events nationwide, but also those that occur closer to home. Perhaps especially at the Claremont Colleges, we feel caught in between a liberal left […]