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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'...

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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...

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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...

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Business Columnists

Michael Hiltzik

Families on food stamps would suffer while farms get fat - June 14, 2013 - As a member of Congress, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) is proud to...

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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.

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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...

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Features Columnists

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...

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Sports Columnists

Bill Plaschke

Dodgers' Stan Kasten shaped by his father's unforgettable lessons - June 15, 2013 - Of all the important numbers rolling around Stan Kasten's busy brain, from a giant Dodgers payroll to shrinking Dodgers victories to the...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Opinion Columnists

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...

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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.

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Doyle McManus

McManus: Obama, Syria and the Aspin Doctrine - June 15, 2013 - As President Obama contemplates his many bad options in Syria, he may want to consider the Aspin Doctrine, an argument for intervention...

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Patt Morrison

Floyd Abrams, America's free speaker - June 12, 2013 - Where there's smoke arising from a free-speech matter, you're likely to find the fiery attorney Floyd Abrams. He's blazed a trail for...

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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...

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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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