News Columnists

Steve Lopez

Steve Lopez

Mind over marauders? - March 17, 2010 - I was sleeping lightly Tuesday morning and the shaking woke me up, but I didn't think it was an earthquake at first. I thought it was...

George Skelton

George Skelton

Whitman shows her chops - March 17, 2010 - Where has she been? This Meg Whitman who wowed reporters at last weekend's Republican state convention. The political novice who...

Sandy Banks

Sandy Banks

Brian the dog's musings sound a bit like psychobabble - March 19, 2010 - Maybe Brian the dog is just a better conversationalist than Steve Lopez's marauding raccoons.

Hector Tobar

Hector Tobar

The still-beating heart of L.A. history - March 19, 2010 - To many an outsider, Los Angeles is a stage set. It's a city constantly pretending to be something it's not.

James Rainey

James Rainey

An e-model for journalism in Seattle - March 20, 2010 - When a bright young reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer named Monica Guzman mentioned a couple of years ago that she planned to...

Business Columnists

Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik

Lehman's collapse was all its own fault - March 17, 2010 - The bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. in September 2008 is widely...

David Lazarus

David Lazarus

How fast is your broadband? Even the feds can't be sure - March 19, 2010 - Federal authorities are taking a kind of national census of broadband Internet access speeds -- a nifty idea that could be a huge help...

Kathy M. Kristof

Kathy M. Kristof

Identity theft may be prelude to more serious crime - March 14, 2010 - Identity theft may be the financial world's equivalent of a staph infection. Just when you thought you had a handle on protecting your...

Tom Petruno

Tom Petruno

If the stock market's up, it must be rigged...right? - March 20, 2010 - Where was the stock market's Plunge Protection Team -- or at least, the Dip Protection Team -- when we needed them on Friday?

Liz Pulliam Weston

Liz Pulliam Weston

Before filing for bankruptcy, try living within your means - March 14, 2010 - Dear Liz: I am a 49-year-old single father with two boys, 17 and 12. I had my own business for five years, which I finally gave up...

Sports Columnists

Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine

Making sense of March Madness - March 17, 2010 - Beware the Ides of March Madness, for there is madness upon the land at anytime, though never more than now.

Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke

For Canada, maple relief - March 1, 2010 - O Canada, did it ever fill the arena, everyone singing, players with their thick arms draped around one another, fans weeping into their...

T.J. Simers

T.J. Simers

NCAA tournament is cause for a friendly wager - March 17, 2010 - The daughter and Ann Meyers Drysdale have so much in common.

Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre

Vin Scully is OK, making all of us OK - March 19, 2010 - It is late Friday morning, and our hearts have started beating again.

Jerry Crowe

Jerry Crowe

Tyus Edney was a dashing figure for UCLA - March 19, 2010 - Happy anniversary to perhaps the guttiest little Bruin of them all, pint-sized former point guard Tyus Edney. …

Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Rielle's manifest destiny - March 18, 2010 - Rielle Hunter's nearly 10,000-word GQ interview plus cringe-

Opinion Columnists

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg

Reading tea party leaves - March 16, 2010 - If you read the Op-Ed pages these days, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the GOP and the conservative movement have been taken over by...

Gregory Rodriguez

Gregory Rodriguez

Political coercion in the buff - March 15, 2010 - There are pivotal moments in politics that shape our view of the democratic process. For some, the election of President Obama was such an...

Doyle McManus

Doyle McManus

Will the 'Blue Dogs' hunt for Obama? - March 14, 2010 - The most important member of Congress this month may be a man you've never heard of: Jason Altmire, a painfully earnest former hospital...

Tim Rutten

Tim Rutten

A blind eye to children's suffering - March 20, 2010 - When it comes to local government, we too often shrug over things that ought to enrage us.

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