The Opera is A Collection of nonfiction essays, excerpts, poetry, and stories and from The Pomonan.
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Essay
Why Suburbia Misunderstands Everything: Geography, Insulation, Nuance, and the Politics of Distance
Essay
Essay
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Literary Essay
You Like to Paint with a Broad Brush
Literary Essay
Literary Essay
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Commentary
Mary, Joseph, Jesus — and the Corporation That Finally Let Them In
Commentary
Commentary
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Story Telling
Yogurt for Dinner
Story Telling
Story Telling
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Editorial Essay
THE SPOOK HUNTERS
Editorial Essay
Editorial Essay
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Editorial
Pomona City Council Quietly Reverses Course on Rent Cap Ordinance
Editorial
Editorial
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Op-Ed
The Concrete Classroom: Why Marginalized Public School Kids Got Asphalt Instead of Grass
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Photo Essay
Photo Essay: No Kings in Claremont
Photo Essay
Photo Essay
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Op-Ed
Country Clubs Get Breaks, Families Sleep in Cars
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
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"
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Guest Commentary
YIMBY Grassroots or Astroturf?
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentary
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Op-Ed
Pomona Considers Flipping the Script on Fire Protection — But At What Cost?
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
UPDATE: Is Senate Bill 79 good for Claremont?
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
California’s State Bill 79 and What it Means for Claremont 
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Opinion
Pomona Saves the Sign, but Kills the Soul
Opinion
Opinion
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Opinion
Trumps Politics of Erecting Power
Opinion
Opinion
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Op-Ed
Pomona Lost. Free Speech Won. And I Took the Pictures
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Editorial
If you use the word “illegal”, do you also say the N word?
Editorial
Editorial
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Op-Ed
Centennial of a Prophet: Malcolm X and America’s Enduring Denial
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Stop Blaming Leftists for Liberal Bullshit
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Claremont Might Legalize Airbnb Rentals. Lets be Honest, the Ban Never Really Existed Anyway.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Prop 13 Is Killing California, But We’re Too Nostalgic to Admit It
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Stop Blaming Liberals for Neoliberalism Bullshit
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Opinion
What Would Pomona Be Without Cronyism? A Better City, Probably
Opinion
Opinion
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Red, White, and True: Kendrick Lamar’s Powerful Statement on Black Identity in America
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Op-Ed
Protecting Immigrants
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Victory Gardens: Where Did They Go? Has Patriotism Traded Roots for Asphalt and Symbols?
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Rest in Power: Former President Jimmy Carter on Israel/Palestine
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Turning Back the Pages: 15 (or so) Takeaways from Jimmy Carter's 1976 Playboy Interview
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
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Op-Ed
Claremont: Your Theater is Circling the Drain – Rediscover the Magic Before It’s Gone
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
Art Reviews
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Review
Kara Walker Did the Update American History Needed
Review
Review
Featured
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News
Pomona PD Withholds Homicide Data Despite Law
News
News
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Inglewood Photography Festival 2025
 
 
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Music
LA LOM at The Glass House, Pomona – New Year’s Eve
Music
Music
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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
Featured
Episode 01 | Linda Zhengova
Episode 01 | Linda Zhengova

5 QUESTIONS

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

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

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