News Columnists

Sandy Banks

Sandy Banks

Here's a teacher I'd want for my children - June 17, 2013 - I don't know what her students' test scores are like, or what her principal thinks. But I do know that if I had a child in third grade, I'...

Steve Lopez

Steve Lopez

Nearly 50 years under a school's spell - June 8, 2013 - When Mickey Fruchter started teaching at the Neighborhood Music School in Boyle Heights in 1964, they didn't tell him how much he'd get...

George Skelton

George Skelton

Lawmakers should close bullet-buying loophole - June 16, 2013 - From what I've been reading, the Santa Monica killer was packing an illegal assault rifle and 40 high-capacity ammunition magazines. He...

Business Columnists

Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik

Caltrans waves red flag on Millennium Hollywood project - June 19, 2013 - It has become almost routine for community groups to rise up in protest whenever a big developer proposes a project likely to make their...

David Lazarus

David Lazarus

Life insurers finally do the right thing on unclaimed death benefits - June 18, 2013 - Desiree Tibbets' mother died in 1995. Her father passed away four years later.

Liz Weston

Liz Weston

Keeping debts secret from spouse is ill advised - June 14, 2013 - Dear Liz: I have three credit cards that are in my name only, plus a small loan at my credit union. My husband did not...

Features Columnists

Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine

Getting the hang of it — hang gliding, that is - June 15, 2013 - With a pneumatic whoooooooosh, I leave Earth again, and I am not even propelled by the sort of happy hour rocket fuel with...

Sports Columnists

Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke

Young Dodgers fan wears his heart on his sleeve in Giants country - June 18, 2013 - It was a graduation speech. Each fifth-grader at Burlingame's Lincoln Elementary gave one.

T.J. Simers

T.J. Simers

Dodgers' bumbling, brawling enough to spoil a columnist's vacation - June 13, 2013 - I am supposed to be resting after a trying week of golf in the Lake Tahoe area.

Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre

Why do so many love to hate Phil Mickelson? - June 18, 2013 - PHILADELPHIA — The only thing more baffling than Phil Mickelson's inability to finish the deal in a U.S. Open is the delight so many...

Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott

L.A. Kings Coach Darryl Sutter is pressing on, not decompressing - June 10, 2013 - Soon after the Kings' chartered plane pointed its nose westward from Chicago, scene of their season-ending loss to the Blackhawks on...

Opinion Columnists

Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Daum: Who's afraid of the NSA? - June 13, 2013 - The facts are still coming in on Edward Snowden, the guy who spilled the beans on the National Security Agency's surveillance of you, me...

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg

Goldberg: Snowden, a fool not a spy - June 18, 2013 - It would make things so much easier for everyone if Edward Snowden were working for China.

Doyle McManus

Doyle McManus

McManus: Congress kicks the can - June 19, 2013 - It almost seems like distant history now, but it was really just a few short months ago that President Obama and Senate Republicans,...

Patt Morrison

Patt Morrison

Evgeny Morozov, Internet Cassandra - June 19, 2013 - In less than a human lifetime, we've come to regard the Internet as an end unto itself, bigger than any of us, even its creators. This...

Jim Newton

Jim Newton

Newton: The real test for Garcetti - June 16, 2013 - City Councilman Eric Garcetti campaigned for mayor for 622 days. He raised more than $8 million and secured the votes of 222,300 residents...

Gregory Rodriguez

Gregory Rodriguez

Rodriguez: Reform for people or for politics? - February 18, 2013 - In 2006, the last time Congress took a serious look at comprehensive immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, legal and...

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