News Briefs

Will Bigham in today's Daily Bulletin reports that the family of an 83-year-old pedestrian killed at Mountain Ave. and Ninth St. last year has filed a $15 million claim against the City of Claremont, alleging that the city should have installed a crosswalk at the intersection where the accident occurred.

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Bigham also had a short note on the city's sustainability forum scheduled for this Saturday at the Alexander Hughes Center from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. As we noted yesterday, the League of Women Voters for the Claremont Area is co-sponsoring the event.

We are always struck by the irony implicit in Claremont's and the League's call for sustainability. League stalwarts like Judy Wright, Diann Ring, Ellen Taylor, and Helaine Goldwater talk a good game about the subject while at the same time supporting Claremont's dependence on sales tax revenue from Roger Hogan's Toyota dealership.

Sure, Hogan sells a lot of Priuses, but he also sells a lot of gas-guzzling, greenhouse emission producing 4Runners, Tacomas, Highlanders, Sequoias and such. According to the city's website, Hogan's Claremont Toyota is sixth largest Toyota dealership in the world in terms of sales volume. (Notice the big pickup on Hogan's website?)