The Opera is A Collection of nonfiction essays, excerpts, poetry, and stories and from The Pomonan.
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THE SPOOK HUNTERS
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Pomona City Council Quietly Reverses Course on Rent Cap Ordinance
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The Concrete Classroom: Why Marginalized Public School Kids Got Asphalt Instead of Grass
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Photo Essay: No Kings in Claremont
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Country Clubs Get Breaks, Families Sleep in Cars
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A Conversation Between “What is the Role of the Academic During Genocide?” and “On the Need to Organize Against Professionalization and Co-Optation in the Academy"
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YIMBY Grassroots or Astroturf?
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Pomona Considers Flipping the Script on Fire Protection — But At What Cost?
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UPDATE: Is Senate Bill 79 good for Claremont?
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California’s State Bill 79 and What it Means for Claremont 
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Pomona Saves the Sign, but Kills the Soul
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Trumps Politics of Erecting Power
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Pomona Lost. Free Speech Won. And I Took the Pictures
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If you use the word “illegal”, do you also say the N word?
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Centennial of a Prophet: Malcolm X and America’s Enduring Denial
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Stop Blaming Leftists for Liberal Bullshit
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Claremont Might Legalize Airbnb Rentals. Lets be Honest, the Ban Never Really Existed Anyway.
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Prop 13 Is Killing California, But We’re Too Nostalgic to Admit It
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Stop Blaming Liberals for Neoliberalism Bullshit
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What Would Pomona Be Without Cronyism? A Better City, Probably
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Red, White, and True: Kendrick Lamar’s Powerful Statement on Black Identity in America
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Protecting Immigrants
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Victory Gardens: Where Did They Go? Has Patriotism Traded Roots for Asphalt and Symbols?
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Rest in Power: Former President Jimmy Carter on Israel/Palestine
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Turning Back the Pages: 15 (or so) Takeaways from Jimmy Carter's 1976 Playboy Interview
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Claremont: Your Theater is Circling the Drain – Rediscover the Magic Before It’s Gone
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Pomona’s Parched Press: Navigating Life in a News Desert
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Do we feel safer every year the police budget increases?
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Rep Norma Torres Votes to Give Trump Unchecked Power to Pursue His "Domestic Enemies"
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Holding Commissioner Appointees, and Elected Officials Accountable
Art Reviews
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Kara Walker Did the Update American History Needed
Street Vendors Save Lives
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Pomona’s Street-Vending Ordinance Conflicts With State Law — And the Record Makes That Clear
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Pomona PD Withholds Homicide Data Despite Law
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Inglewood Photography Festival 2025
 
 
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Music
LA LOM at The Glass House, Pomona – New Year’s Eve
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Pomona Gyros
Coming Soon: Pomona's Divine Gyros!
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Pomona Gyros
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The Inaugural Pomona Valley Pride Festival is Three Weeks Away!
Photographic Portfolios
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Wings Over Concrete - Urban Birds' Interlaced Flight Patterns in the Cityscape - Raghuvamsh Chavali
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LAUNDRY ROOM - Arkadiusz Kubisiak
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My Ego Confuses My Heart - Joel Rhymer
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Episode 01 | Linda Zhengova
Episode 01 | Linda Zhengova

5 QUESTIONS

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5 Questions: Professor of English - Donato Martinez
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5 Question with Margaret Elysia Garcia
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5 Questions with David A. Romero Spoken Word Artist
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AUTHORS

The Deconstruction of Law & Order
Banning the Box and Stopping the Frisk
Kelly Smith
Banning the Box and Stopping the Frisk
Kelly Smith
Kelly Smith

SHOP BOOKS

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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
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