News Columnists
Steve Lopez
Iraq, Afghanistan veterans need more help at home - November 11, 2009 - Floyd Meshad, Vietnam vet, was in a Ralphs supermarket in Westchester when his cellphone rang at 9 o'clock one evening not long ago.
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George Skelton
Taxing our credulity - November 9, 2009 - The state of California began withholding more taxes from paychecks last week. And don't believe it if you hear this isn't a tax increase.
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Sandy Banks
Finding a deeper lesson in high school gang rape - November 7, 2009 - In last Saturday's column, I relied on teenagers at Richmond High to help me understand how gang rape became a spectator sport on their...
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Hector Tobar
A former tagger searches for a new means of expression - November 10, 2009 - A young man once known as Fenix is standing at a fork in the road.
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James Rainey
Don't leave us, an Afghan radio programmer tells U.S. audiences - November 6, 2009 - In Masood Farivar's life, the absurdly improbable has often come to look like the preordained. Once a teenage jihadi who went to...
Business Columnists
Michael Hiltzik
The Golden State of Fender guitars - November 11, 2009 - The sound of California business success came to my ears the moment I stepped through the door of Fender...
David Lazarus
The sad illusion of happy customers - November 11, 2009 - Customer satisfaction has become such a scarce commodity in the business world, it's now a selling point at a time when companies are...
Kathy M. Kristof
You may qualify for a home-buyer tax credit - November 8, 2009 - Millions of additional people may be able to take advantage of the new and improved first-time home-buyer tax credit now, and it's not...
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Dan Neil
Chia Obama's hairy question: Is it racist scorn or sincere tribute? - November 10, 2009 - The scene: A vast crowd at a political rally raises a tumult of adulation. Triumphal music rises. Graphics of President Obama's image...
Tom Petruno
Why gold is shining brighter - November 7, 2009 - The American public has no say in Federal Reserve policy.
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Liz Pulliam Weston
New car or used? Buy either, but be smart - November 8, 2009 - Dear Liz: My husband and I own a car that's on its last legs, and we are contemplating a replacement.
Sports Columnists
Chris Erskine
An Octomom costume provides a falsie sense of security - November 7, 2009 - Our Halloween was so good we would almost like to do it again a week later. The night was crisp and smelled of apples. We hit a couple...
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Bill Plaschke
Dodgers put a low price on decades of experience - November 11, 2009 - After spending the last couple of weeks choking on the McCourt divorce numbers -- $6,000 a year for birthday parties? -- Dodgers fans...
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T.J. Simers
Jamie McCourt denies affair, says accusations are 'devastating' - November 11, 2009 - Sat down with the Screaming Meanie on Tuesday morning, and how about that, even cutting into Jamie McCourt's negotiated swimming time.
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Bill Dwyre
Breeders' Cup should make itself at home here - November 9, 2009 - For 26 years, one of the jewels of horse racing has wandered the country like a nomad. Now, it is time to find a permanent home for the...
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Helene Elliott
Kings' Luc Robitaille fought to prove the skeptics wrong - November 10, 2009 - Whoever wrote the script summarizing Luc Robitaille's career for the highlight film that accompanied his hockey Hall of Fame induction...
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Kurt Streeter
Smoke in Pasadena is UCLA getting burned - October 18, 2009 - The wheels haven't just fallen off. On Saturday, for UCLA, the wheels fell, then tumbled down the side of a hot road, then settled into...
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Jerry Crowe
Former NBA tough guy Tom Meschery a man of rhyme, reason - November 9, 2009 - When art professor Melanie Marchant started dating former NBA player Tom Meschery a few years ago, male friends weren't shy about...
Opinion Columnists
Meghan Daum
Cyclists and motorists on collision course - November 5, 2009 - On Monday, Dr. Christopher Thompson, the driver who abruptly stopped his car in front of two cyclists last summer, was found guilty of six...
Jonah Goldberg
Sometimes, an extremist really is an extremist - November 10, 2009 - Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan demonstrated many things when he allegedly committed treason in the war on terror. For starters, he showed --...
Gregory Rodriguez
Cold War nostalgia - November 9, 2009 - The global celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall aren't entirely about commemorating the rebirth of...
Doyle McManus
Obama by the numbers - November 8, 2009 - President Obama didn't get much time last week to savor the gauzy one-year-after retrospectives of his 2008 election victory, with its 53%...
Tim Rutten
Army must be on guard for extremism - November 11, 2009 - There is a profound difference between watchfulness and a witch hunt.
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